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Ginia Bellafante (born March 31, 1965) is an American writer and critic, primarily for the New York Times.

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television: Foreclosed Delusions in Reality TV’s Home Market

ACCORDING to latest reports from the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, a closely followed measure of the residential real estate market, we are, if not in end-times, still enduring a grim and ugly passage. Although housing prices ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Standard Poor's

Television Review | 'White Collar': Con Man and Cops, With I.Q. To Spare

In the annals of criminals with good intentions, Neal Caffrey is a guy with a big brain, a sloppy heart and a personal style that says, “Cast me in a remake of ‘Swingers.’ ” Cops are wowed by him; women fall for him. He thinks like Bill Gates; he ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill Gates,  Warren Beatty,  Diahann Carroll,  Harvard University,  Jeffrey T Donovan

Television Review | 'Mary Queen of Shops': Why Can’t the English Teach Their Retailers How to Be Chic?

Mary Portas, left, at Floyd’s, in a shopping center in Wales. More Photos » The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. British reality television is a broad ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: BBC America,  Dries van Noten

Television Review | 'Man Shops Globe': The World Is His Oyster. His Pearls: Tchotchkes.

Anthropologie, a granddaddy of we-are-the-world shopping emporiums, is a chain store that pretends not to be. Its purpose is to make you feel that you the consumer with your left-of-center politics, HBO and insistence on free-trade coffee and ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Anthropologie,  HBO,  United Nations

Television Review | 'The Cleveland Show': ‘Family Guy’ Neighbor Shows Off New Address

When Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” first surfaced a decade ago, it inspired such animus in his former high school headmaster, the Rev. Richardson W. Schell of the Kent School in Connecticut, that he publicly called on advertisers to boycott the show ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Seth MacFarlane,  Harvard University,  Hugo Chávez,  Mike Henry,  Gene Hackman

Television Review | 'FlashForward': Fearing a Future They’ve Seen

If the world were to expire sometime before Friday, the debate between free will and determinism would trace its history from the Greeks, through the battles between Augustine and Pelagius, Erasmus and Luther, the writings of Hobbes, Hume and William ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Joseph Fiennes,  William James,  Sarah Connor,  Robert J. Sawyer,  Rodney King

Television Review | 'Modern Family': ‘I’m the Cool Dad’ and Other Debatable Dispatches From the Home Front

The family sitcom, as our understanding would have it, lost its cultural currency when networks determined that for the affluent viewers they sought, the workplace had become the new household, the cubicle the new bedroom and young careerist upstarts ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Ed O'Neill,  Sunoco, Inc.,  Julie Bowen

Television Review | 'Mercy': From Iraq Hellfire to Hospital Halls, TV Nurses Wage a Battle for Respect

In 1962, during the early heyday of the hospital drama, CBS introduced a series that nobly shifted the focus from the lionized role of male physicians to the hard work performed by the women who kept the IVs filled and the compassion on tap. The show ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: TNT,  Michael Moore,  Angelina Jolie,  Crocs, Inc.,  Tiger Woods

The New Season | Television: Faces to Watch

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Julianna Margulies has appeared on television only sporadically since she left “ER” nearly a decade ago, and for this viewer ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Julianna Margulies,  Jason Schwartzman,  Chevy Chase,  HBO,  Keith Carradine

Television Review | 'Georgia O’Keeffe': Independent Protégée and Needy Starmaker

In recent months female essayists like Cristina Nehring, in her book “A Vindication of Love,” have advocated for tempestuousness in modern relationships, a fury of the kind practiced by artists and writers in the days before a successful marriage was ...

From GINIA BELLAFANTE, The New York Times,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Alfred Stieglitz,  Joan Allen,  Jeremy Irons,  Bob Balaban,  Paul Strand

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