Friend – later cast as spy Peter Quinn in Homeland –was one of the select few who actually embarked on a lavish screen test with Martin Campbell for Casino Royale, a day-long affair which saw actors shoot a sequence as Bond on a special set. (Others reportedly included ER's Goran Vi...
and we cast them together, and we staged them together and everything, picking the food on the table, we did together.” The casting for the first video, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” included Mark Metcalf, who played ROTC officer Douglas C. Nei...
I started withDoctor Who and Philosophy, thenDownton Abbey,Homeland,andThe Walking Dead. I noticed all these books toil to shatter the myth that TV is simply a vast cultural wasteland. Fighting zombies, taking tea, traveling through time and space, those are hooks to get us to watch and k...
But Rock on the Range wasn’t just about legends: new and up-and-coming acts like Fever 333, Code Orange, Power Trip, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown and Greta Van Fleet (the latter of whom also played Coachella) showed that metal and hard rock have a strong future. Check back in a fe...
Communications), in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions and Columbia Pictures Television, the series starred Tony Danza as a retired major league baseball player who relocates to Fairfield, Connecticut to work as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, played by Judith Light...
Orson Bean, 91. The witty actor and comedian who enlivened the game show "To Tell the Truth" and played a crotchety merchant on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." Feb. 7. Hit by a car. Robert Conrad, 84. The rugged, contentious actor who starred in the hugely popular 1960s television ser...
In each case, parochialism prevailed at the expense of the president, whether it was Republicans courting suburban Jewish voters, Democrats chasing defense jobs or both parties pursuing Homeland pork. Nothing was...