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...itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair." Today, cable earns billions for the studios, as both a second home for feature films and gold-mine subsidiaries in studio-owned channels like MTV, HBO and Comedy Central...
...know the worst thing about niggas? Niggas always want credit for some s__ they supposed to do. A nigga'll brag about some s___a normal man just does." CHRIS ROCK, in his HBO special Bring the Pain AFTERMATH: None. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...seen the picture at the top of this page, so you know I'm talking about Tony Soprano. I'll leave you to decide whether the comparison is insulting to that other American leader or to Tony. HBO's The Sopranos, which begins its for-real-this-time final run of nine episodes April 8 (9 p.m. E.T.), is not a straight parable of the presidency. Tony, for instance, has a rather more strict policy toward staffers who leak...
...took years, but the big networks have learned to adapt The Sopranos' strengths to their own needs and audiences. Lost is, in its adventure-story way, an HBO show in structure, with one complex story played out over years. (In fact, its fans complain, much as Sopranos fans have, that the plot wanders too much and fails to give closure.) And antiheroes? Take your pick: nearly every major Lost character has a criminal or checkered past, from fugitive to druglord to torturer to addict...
Showtime is setting up its hot new Henry at 10 p.m. on Sunday nights, practically monarch-a-monarch with HBO's departing head of state Tony--Soprano, that is. It's a fair pairing; both men have violent but paternalistic leadership styles, endure family troubles and suffer from excessive appetites. But unlike the bathrobed, balding James Gandolfini, Rhys Meyers, 29, will play Henry at an age when he was described by a foreign ambassador as "the handsomest prince in all of Christendom," the 16th century equivalent of being named PEOPLE magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive." The Irish actor...