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Is it better for a TV show to be consistent or surprising? Is it worse for it to be ridiculous or boring? NBC's unorthodox new drama Kings (Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.) comes down solidly on the latter side of those questions. Some viewers will say it's fascinating. Others...
It's easy to overlook these faults - and Kings' taste for melodramatic cheese, slathered with an overheated operatic score - when McShane is onstage. But Egan's David is an upstanding stiff, and when Egan gets a McShanian monologue at the end of the two-hour pilot, he sounds ridiculous. The...
Wells mentions a rumor dating back to the 18th century that the earl once gave Shakespeare a thousand pounds, possibly to allow the Bard to purchase the second largest house in Stratford-on-Avon. That would be an extraordinary amount of money even from a patron who was, as Wells...
Yes, that thing is a mall called Xanadu, located in East Rutherford. The name is a nod to the heavenly summer home immortalized by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree." It's also the name of a ridiculous 1980 Olivia Newton...
Of course, because North Korea’s announcement happens to coincide with joint military exercises by American and South Korean troops, North Korea has responded with predictable threats and the placement of its troops on full military alert. This is an over-reaction—the troop exercises are...