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Former talk show host Rosie O?Donnell made her first trip to the Sundance Film Festival to debut the documentary All Aboard! Rosie?s Family Cruise. The film, which was commissioned by HBO (a division of Time's parent company, Time Warner) and will air on the cable channel April 6, profiles gay families aboard a 2004 cruise from New York City to the Caribbean that was organized by O?Donnell and her partner Kelli O'Donnell. Rosie spoke to TIME about the challenges of gay parenting...
...Hollywood directors have such a distinct signature--or, rather, two of them. One part of Soderbergh's brain makes can't-miss caper films and weepie dramas (Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich) with the town's priciest talent. Another part is indelibly indie: he will shoot an ad-lib HBO series about lobbyists (K Street), or remake a mystical Russian sci-fi art film (Solaris). Not everything works, but it's more than cool that he tries...
EPITAFIOS HBO SIGNATURE, WEDNESDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T. A psychiatrist compliments a killer who arranges elaborate tableaus at his murder sites: "He created a symbolic space full of metaphors." True of this serial killer, and true of this killer serial. Dark, operatic and visually rich, this Argentine drama derives its suspense from its willingness to do anything--including killing off cops who are central to the story. The indispensable star of a crime show, Epitafios understands, is the criminal...
...milieu is phony and dated: Tom, a supposedly individualistic tastemaker, is about as edgy as a pair of pleated khakis. (He loves Bob Dylan and hates Hanson! Risky!) CBS may want to avoid alienating us unhip married guys with aging CD collections, but it sacrifices the authenticity that allows HBO'S Entourage to overcome its Y-chromosome clich?...
...family themes could be handled better on cable--mainly because they have been. The less flashy, more affecting Rescue Me, besides its divine tête-à-têtes, deals with the Catholic guilt of Leary's character (who also loses a son and pops pills). The most glaring parallels are to HBO'S Six Feet Under, with its Episcopal repression, uptight gay son and angry, artistic daughter. On Daniel, the network leash keeps tugging distractingly. Peter, like so many other gay TV characters, is conveniently "getting over a breakup," and in the pilot, Daniel has to have a pat moment of connection...