Last night David Letterman attended a photography exhibition he helped put together featuring the work of Late Show writer Steve Young, who takes pictures of celebrities entering the Ed Sullivan theater with the same piece of gum in the foreground of every photo. Here are some possible analyses of this exhibit: - gum is everlasting and throws into sharp relief the ephemeral quality of celebrity - gum can be bought with money, reminding us that in a consumer culture, celebrities are just another commodity

Well, this is a little… I don’t know what. Disappointing? Annoying? In any case, apparently David Letterman was in on this whole Joaquin Phoenix “character” during their famous interview. Here’s what Letterman writer Bill Scheft had to say about it: Dave knew about it and Dave loved it because he could play along. It was great television. But I will take credit for the line, ‘I think I owe Farrah Fawcett an apology.

“I don’t have a house, but I’m looking for one. I just want to make sure it’s not haunted. I’m not just saying this to try to sound crazy, like, ‘Oh, I’m such a crazy pop star, I’m haunted,’ but actually, almost every night I have some psycho dream of the same ghost, either in my face, strangling me, smacking me, shoving me, or just hanging out. Sometimes he’s just there, scaring me, being an asshole.

Dead to Me Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Dead to Me Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Grief, friendship, and forgiveness swirl into a fascinating character study in Netflix’s excellent new Dead to Me, a dark comedy with the twists and turns of a true-crime docuseries.

Deadwood Suffer the Little Children Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Deadwood Suffer the Little Children Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to 12 Days of Deadwood, in which Matt Zoller Seitz, author of the upcoming A Lie Agreed Upon: The Deadwood Chronicles, revisits the first season of the landmark HBO drama one episode at a time.

Deadwood Deadwood Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Deadwood Deadwood Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Welcome to 12 Days of Deadwood, in which Matt Zoller Seitz, author of the upcoming A Lie Agreed Upon: The Deadwood Chronicles, revisits the first season of the landmark HBO drama one episode at a time.

Dear Edward Shelter Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Dear Edward Shelter Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » I’ll never know why episodes of Dear Edward were not 80 percent grief-group scenes and 20 percent whatever else. There have been so few of those scenes for a show about … people connected through grief?

Man with trauma from war. The most beautiful thing about lawsuits is mostly unrelated to the lawsuit itself: all the stupid stuff that we, the public, get to learn about the private goings-on about those involved. And did we get a juicy one about a high-powered man today! According to Rolling Stone, a wrongful termination lawsuit against HBO was filed in July by former HBO staffer Sully Temori against senior VP of drama programming Kathleen McCaffrey, head of drama Francesca Orsi, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, and two producers for The Idol.

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There’s a scene from That ’70s Show that always pops into my mind when I think of Kitty Forman. Early in the series, she comes home from a long shift as a nurse at a hospital, where — just like at home — she’s overworked and undervalued. All she wants is those damn teenagers in her basement to give her a hit of nicotine. “I’m going to close my eyes,” Kitty announces, “and when I open them, there better be a cigarette between these two fingers.