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Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) is an elderly Italian peasant who decides to travel to America for the first time. His recently deceased brother had moved to America in his youth to raise his family. Uncle Nino travels to see Robert (Joan of Arcadia’s Joe Mantegna), his brother’s son, and what he finds is far from his expectations: random strangers don’t like being accosted by random old men who offer them a bite of their salami…apparently that’s just not an American custom...

Author: By Tony A. Onah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uncle Nino Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...pals - sounding more like Van Halen than Hanson - should stay put playing in the garage (lest their man-boy voices betray their steroid use). Joe Mantegna, having grown tired of the caustic straight talk from his David Mamet days, instead opts for the sappy rubbish of what is effectively Joan of Arcadia Redux...

Author: By Tony A. Onah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uncle Nino Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

According to their publicist, each sister is taking two classes for credit while continuing to keep up with their packed schedules. Haylie Duff is currently working on the CBS show, “Joan of Arcadia,” and Hilary Duff is about to start production on her next movie, their publicist said...

Author: By Illeana Ojeda, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At Harvard, One Duff is not Enough | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...stand a ghost of a chance. (Hey, she started it!) Since the launches of Twin Peaks and The X-Files, the network schedules have been littered with failed attempts at spooky, paranormal series: Millennium, The Others, Miracles, Wolf Lake and more. (The exceptions, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia and HBO's Carnivale, have been cult hits or cable shows.) Viewers, meanwhile, gravitated to reality shows and firmly realistic cop procedurals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Spirits of the Age | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Medium's spirituality is inoffensively generic--the standard apparitions caught between our world and an undefined "other side." (Likewise, CBS's Joan offers a smiling, nondenominational God.) NBC will take a more boldly religious tack later this spring with Revelations (debuts April 13), a six-episode series investigating a sequence of events that suggests the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Spirits of the Age | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

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