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...that matter. Leno and NBC have a delicate task with the Tonight Show relaunch: making an event of something that viewers were watching less than a year ago without too many awkward reminders of what came between. But no one can say Leno isn't comfortable in his new-old job. As opposed to Conan O'Brien--who reveled in stagy awkwardness--Leno is betting that America will respond to a show that's comfortable, familiar and pretty much unchanged...
Adding new ammunition to the debate over gun control, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments March 2 in McDonald v. Chicago, a case challenging the constitutionality of Chicago's handgun ban. If, as is expected, the Justices rule in favor of 76-year-old Otis McDonald--who says he fears for his safety without a gun--they could lay the groundwork for gun-control laws to be loosened across the country. Firearms account for about 30,000 deaths each year in the U.S. The city of Chicago maintains that its 28-year-old handgun ban saves hundreds of lives...
Givens' bags are barely unpacked when he has a run-in with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), an old coal-mining buddy who has become a white supremacist and bank robber. (The pilot is based on a Leonard story, "Fire in the Hole," and Givens' old entanglements at home are a continuing story in later episodes.) As he chases Boyd and his crew, the ghosts of the life he left - his ex-wife Winona (Natalie Zea), his old flame and Boyd's sister-in-law Ava (Joelle Carter), his as-yet-unseen jailed daddy - begin to attach to him. (Watch...
...what's meant to be a friendly chat (by way of breaking into her house in the middle of the night), "You're the angriest man I have ever known." His sartorial quirks mark him not just as a throwback but as a young man who's prematurely old: like many a western hero, there's something strong and tired about him at the same time...
...Providence and New York before it was seen in theaters. After the New York screening, there was a question-and-answer session with the director for all the petite Pauline Kaels. Do kids care about asking directors questions? Unlikely, especially since Kells' target audience is around 6 years old...