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‘Her Name Was Steven’ on CNN Presents

A green mamba snake, from a show about pets killing owners. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Ion Television, Saturday nights at 9 and 10, Eastern and ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  12 Mar 2010

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He Could Sell a Bridge Over the East River

The Lifetime movie “Who Is Clark Rockefeller?” slips by easily enough. The story of how the German chameleon Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter fooled successive flocks of Americans with his invented personas, culminating in Clark Rockefeller, fictional ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Clark Rockefeller,  Eric McCormack,  Will Truman,  Debra Messing,  Peter Weir

Playing the Odds of Love

If you’re going to make a romantic comedy called “She’s Out of My League” about a schlubby nice guy and a pneumatic blonde, the last thing you want is for the audience to be left thinking: “He’s right. She’s way out of his league.” In order to view ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Judd Apatow,  Jay Baruchel,  Tom Stoppard

Movie Review | 'White on Rice': Domestic Dramedy

“White on Rice” is an Asian-American domestic dramedy that’s determined to be as culture-neutral as possible. To that end the director, Dave Boyle, who wrote the screenplay with Joel Clark, avoids the genre’s most common markers: the obsession with ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: John Candy

What a Charming Loser, What TV-Sharp Kids

Beginning with the paranoid, conspiracy-mongering brother on the alien-attack series “Invasion” and continuing with the slacker best friend of the soul-hunting hero on “Reaper,” Tyler Labine has made a specialty of playing lovable misfits who rise to ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Jane Kaczmarek,  Bryan Cranston

'Lost' Watch': Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba

Mario Perez Dr. Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) and his favorite student, Alex (Tania Raymonde). Also, the guy from “Ghostbusters” (William Atherton). The first responders are raving about “Dr. Linus,” Tuesday night’s episode of “Lost.” Do you agree? ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Michael Emerson

Brews, burgers and 1833

Two historic buildings. Two restaurant concepts. Two business partners with fertile minds. It adds up to the biggest culinary buzz since David Fink gave us Bouchee, Cantinetta Luca and Aubergine over a short period beginning in 2003. along the rec ...

From MIKE HALE, Monterey County Herald,  10 Mar 2010

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Television Review | 'Magic & Bird': Still Going One on One and Giving No Ground

Every once in a while someone says something amazing in the HBO documentary “Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals.” Usually it’s Larry Bird. Earvin Johnson, left, better known as Magic, of the Los Angeles Lakers, in a fight for the ball with Larry Bird ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  5 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Larry Bird,  Magic Johnson,  Los Angeles Lakers,  Boston Celtics,  National Basketball Association

'Lost' Watch: Sayid Goes Off

Tuesday night’s episode, “Sundown,” was all about Sayid (making fools of those of us who predicted a Sun-centric hour). It felt here as if the whole double-barreled Sayid-the-killer story — with its multiple “You don’t know the kind of man I am” ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Don Bluth,  Barry Hannah,  Jon Hamm,  Matt Damon,  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Foodbites: Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2010

Most of the people on Facebook take great pleasure in sharing with us the painfully mundane moments of their lives ("Joe is eating a bologna sandwich" or "Diane became a fan of IHOP.") and Sunday will house more than 200 wineries and 25 celebrity chefs, ...

From MIKE HALE, Monterey County Herald,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Food & Wine Magazine,  Jacques Pepin,  Thomas Keller,  Facebook Inc.,  Cat Cora

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