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TV Review: The American Mall By Barry Garron
Has MTV become Disney, Too?
You might guess that from "The American Mall," a movie so like Disney's "High School Musical" that it even boasts that it comes from the same executive producers (Barry Rosenbush and Bill Borden). More importantly, "Mall...
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Sordid Lives Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
"Sordid Lives: The Series," a sort of "Mama's Family" meets "Will and Grace," boasts a cast that even the broadcast networks would be happy to assemble, including Rue McClanahan, Caroline Rhea, Bonnie Bedelia, Beth Grant, Olivia Newton-John and Le...
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Wipeout Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
On the one hand, I yield to no one in my delight at spending a full hour watching everyday, ordinary people get humiliated and fall into mud. On the other hand, "Wipeout," which premiered Tuesday night, comes closer than almost any other show to j...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
The series, like the movie, is an action-packed, explosion-filled sci-fi variation of "The Fugitive," though the circumstances are sketchier. While it helps a bit to have seen the movie -- fashioned from equal parts of celluloid and testosterone -...
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Welcome to the Captain Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
A classic comedy if ever there was one, "Welcome to the Captain," with its dinner-theater characters and traditional boy-meets-girl romance, has a wide, multigenerational appeal. I'm not sure whether it has something blue, but this single-camera s...
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Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
Putting that enormous talent to work in a one-time special is a no-brainer as HBO has demonstrated time and again, but figuring out a way to package Ullman's brilliance in a series, week after week, is harder. American viewers haven't been enthral...
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Farmer Wants a Wife Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
The concept was imported by FremantleMedia North America after it was successfully deployed in Europe, from France to Finland, and in Australia.
The producers recruited 10 young women willing to tell the camera that they couldn't wait to give up th...
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The Andromeda Strain Review, by Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter
Like Halley's Comet, "The Andromeda Strain," Michael Crichton's story of a virulent microorganism from outer space, is coming around again. It's previous appearance, as a theatrical directed by Robert Wise, occurred 37 years ago, so it was probabl...
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