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Dennis Franz is 'Blue'
Tribune Media ServicesSince his police drama has ended up back on its traditional night, Dennis Franz isn't as blue as he might have been. ABC had planned to relocate "NYPD Blue" to Wednesdays, where it would have faced off against another long-entrenched crime drama, NBC'...Tags: Television, Literature, Garcelle Beauvais, Esai Morales, John Clark
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Let the shows begin
By all appearances, the broadcast television networks finally got the message that audiences are hungry for original programming even during summer months. What's more, they've learned to do it with relatively inexpensive programming. Just look at the...Tags: Carol Kane, Johnny Carson, Family, Everybody Loves Raymond (tv program), Matthew Fox
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Switching screens
Even so, there are several recurring mysteries in the world of entertainment, among them why people leave good television shows to make bad movies. The latest poster child would be Julianna Margulies, the Emmy-winning "ER" star currently appearing in...Tags: Health, Television, Matthew Perry, Michael Mann, Will Smith
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Back to normal?
The year in television was all about getting back to normal. Unfortunately, the medium succeeded. By summertime, things were so normal, so far removed from the elevated future some had predicted in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, that "American...Tags: Joan Cusack, The Real World (tv program), Seinfeld (tv program), Cartoons, Jon Stewart
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Alien notions
Ivan Reitman, the director of the comedy "Evolution," insists that leading man David Duchovny was the model of acting professionalism. "He had smart things to say about the material and made a lot of contributions to the script," says Reitman, who...Tags: Romance (genre), Television, Health, Brad Pitt, Celebrities
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Pretty rockin', as awards shows go
Times Staff WriterThere's something to be said for a 3 1/2-hour awards show that seems like only three. So maybe the 47th annual Grammy Awards didn't exactly whiz past, but the music kept coming, and a lot of it was pretty good, and because actors weren't being honored the...Tags: Television, Harvey Korman, Awards and Prizes, Melissa Etheridge, Joss Stone
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TV: Fall Of The Familiar
Courant TV CriticHospitals, morgues, courtrooms and nostalgia - that's where you'll again find most of the action in the new television season. Cops and hospitals. Hospitals and cops. It's a topical cul-de-sac on TV, where the highest-rated shows in recent...Tags: Carol Kane, According to Jim (tv program), Family, Tom Sizemore, Everybody Loves Raymond (tv program)
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The dark side shines through
Tribune arts criticMoody and taciturn, Steppenwolf Theatre co-founder Gary Sinise makes for an ideal addition to the "CSI" stable. As lead detective in the latest spinoff of the hit crime juggernaut, "CSI: NY" (9 p.m. Wednesday, WBBM-Ch. 2), Sinise comes with an air of...Tags: Television, Gary Sinise, Carmine Giovinazzo, Death, Crimes
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Jade
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 13, 1995 Watching "Jade" is such a hollow experience it's hard to work up the energy to dismiss it. A movie where the car chases have more personality than the people, its monotone acting and recycled plot make one wonder, not for the...Tags: Death, Michael Biehn, James Horner, Social Issues, Government
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Kiss of Death
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 21, 1995 The dark, twisty kingdom of film noir, a shadow world that leaks fatalism, pessimism and romantic despair, is the drug of choice for today's directors. Hardly a month passes without one filmmaker or another attempting a modern-...Tags: Criminals, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Price, Michael Rapaport, Death
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A Goofy Movie
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 7, 1995 Goofy finally gets his own movie in--"A Goofy Movie." He had his own TV show, "Goof Troop," which started up in 1992, but that wasn't enough for him. After all, what's a TV series compared to big-screen stardom? These days...Tags: Television, Movies, Wallace Shawn, Goofy (fictional animal), Jim Cummings
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