Word: conning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HUSTLE AMC, SATURDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. This unapologetically slight con drama is a chrome-plated time machine back to the mid-'60s. In the spirit of Catch Me If You Can, it signals its retro intentions with midcentury-modern production design, a jazz sound track and the casting of Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an aging grifter ("You're never too old to cheat, my dear"). Adrian Lester (Primary Colors) is ice cool as Mickey, a Zen master of con who treats his work more as philosophy than fraud. It's all delightfully phony, but will win your...
...like, as in kind. He once clowned the entire staff of FM nto thinking he was too nice and too indie for them. This turned out not to be true, him being really just sort of indie and not that nice. In other words, a total dick. Basically, a con artist. Point is, Leon is literally skinny (!!!). Next year he’ll essentially keep up the good work...
...ROCKFORD FILES SEASON 1 There have been tougher, more polished private eyes on TV than Jim Rockford (James Garner) but none as cool. Rockford was a classic '70s outlaw antihero: a roguish, check-bouncing ex-con (wrongly convicted) who lived in a trailer and was nearly as great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying...
...gives editorials but also does interviews in character. Like The Daily Show, the Report can be patchy once it gets past the monologue. But some segments are tours de force, like Formidable Opponent, in which Colbert debates himself; rather than tape both sides separately, he toggles between pro and con like a human Ping-Pong match...
...particularly harsh words for neo-con talking head Ann Coulter, an unregenerate McCarthy apologist. “She’s out in her own wilderness,” he says...