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Nate Stahlings (Josh Dean), new college grad, is starting adult life on the slow track--specifically, the move-back-to-your-folks'-house-in-Missouri track. Ride is, like Sons and Daughters, partly improvised (creator Rob Roy Thomas brought us Bravo's improv-com Significant Others), and that gives the slacker comedy an appealing, meandering feel. Good-hearted, eccentric and wry, Ride goes nowhere fast, but it has a fine time getting there...
...family. As The Sopranos and Six Feet Under did, it introduces us to a world that is both bizarre and mundane. But while Big Love can be funny, it doesn't go for Desperate Housewives camp or titillation. "When we pitched the show," says Mark V. Olsen, the co-creator with Will Scheffer, "it was with the caveat that we had no interest in milking the sensational or tawdry or salacious...
...well Tony has done for himself in his ruthless unexamined life-and whether or how he might pay for it-is shaping up to be the theme of what creator David Chase says will be its last season. (HBO will run 12 episodes this spring; then the show returns for a promised final 8 in January.) Previous seasons have introduced new characters and rivals to the mix?Richie Aprile, Ralph Cifaretto, Tony Blundetto-but the four episodes of season 6 screened for critics focus tight on the existing circle of characters. (Though they do, in a twist...
...challenge. While he is trying to reach out a hand to moderate Muslims, he is also using increasingly tough language in condemning faith-based terror. On Monday, after attacks on churches and mosques in Iraq and Nigeria, Benedict told a crowd in St. Peter's Square: "God, the creator and father of all, will call to account even more severely those who spill the blood of their brother in His name." Like his predecessor, the preacher's message is clear. Only this time, one wonders if it will ever reach beyond the choir...
...Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood." GEORGE LUCAS, Star Wars creator, speaking at a White House ceremony in which his company, Industrial Light & Magic was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology...