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...Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO). Holly Hunter, mystically mute in the movie The Piano, chattered compulsively as Wanda Holloway, the homemaker accused of plotting to eliminate her daughter's cheerleading competition. Her hilarious, high-strung performance was just part of the fun of this delicious send-up of TV's ripped- from-the-headlines docudramas. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile) brought his deadpan wit to a marvelous script by Jane Anderson, and Lucy Simon contributed an infectious, country-flavored score...
...Laurel Avenue (HBO) A working-class black family in Minnesota battles against drugs, crime and assorted family crises. This two-part drama, directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move), was startling in its frankness yet leavened by a stubborn optimism, a far cry from TV's usual easy sentimentality...
Well, Gervais has a new sitcom, “Extras,” and fortunately we can watch it Sundays on HBO at 10:30 p.m. in its unprocessed, un-pasteurized British form. The new program follows Gervais as Andy Millman, a struggling extra (or, as he coins himself, background artist) trying desperately to get that coveted line in a film. Obviously the biggest challenge for Gervais with this series is to distance himself from his iconic incarnation as David Brent. Like “The Office,” “Extras” follows the insatiable quest...
...taking on Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, with his company's vast array of media properties, including CNN, HBO, America Online, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, and a current market value of $85 billion, Icahn has chosen his biggest mark yet. Time Warner has been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises...
Perhaps most stunningly, the entire album is apparently an improvised session spread out over three days, in the conference room of a hotel overlooking the Niger River. I guess they don’t get HBO there or something...