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    Jun 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Franklin & Bash' on TNT

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    Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 16 - 22, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   -------------------- SERIES MasterChef The contestants visit the set of...

    Tags: Shemar Moore, Cirque du Soleil, Betty White, Cedric the Entertainer, Jimmy Fallon

    2. Jun 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Christopher Guest shakes his 'Family Tree'

    A powerful recurring motif in the varied works of Christopher Guest is the dummy.
    A powerful recurring motif in the varied works of Christopher Guest is the dummy. From early sketch comedy on "Saturday Night Live" through a series of mock documentaries, the looming figure is an essential part of the Guest aesthetic. It can be a...

    Tags: Ed Begley Jr., Jamie Lee Curtis, Los Angeles Film Festival, England, Sociology

    3. Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Review: 'Yes, Prime Minister' gets lost in British politics

    Political comedy isn't what it used to be, but what shtickmeister could compete with the running gags of those currently holding office?
    Political comedy isn't what it used to be, but what shtickmeister could compete with the running gags of those currently holding office? David Mamet took up the challenge and came up short with his Oval Office farce "November," leadenly staged last fall...

    Tags: United Kingdom, Government, Parliament, Politics, Tara Summers

    4. Jun 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Michael McKean is a man of many comedic faces

    When he played Lenny on ABC's popular 1976-83 sitcom "Laverne &amp; Shirley," Michael McKean realized he could easily become typecast as his dumb, lovable Fonzie wannabe and pal of the knuckleheaded Squiggy. He vowed not to let it happen.
    When he played Lenny on ABC's popular 1976-83 sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," Michael McKean realized he could easily become typecast as his dumb, lovable Fonzie wannabe and pal of the knuckleheaded Squiggy. He vowed not to let it happen. "It's not your...

    Tags: United Kingdom, Music Industry, Gore Vidal¿s The Best Man (play), ABC (tv network), Christopher Guest

    5. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

    <strong>"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday).</strong> Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went to 11 and whose guitar you were not to touch or even to look at -- Guest has been an architect of modern comedy, from the improvised dialogue that marks his films to the documentary style in which most have been shot. Its sound is his sound, its look his look. (Ricky Gervais owes him his career, if we are to consider that career based on "The Office"; "Parks &amp; Recreation" could almost be Guest's own work.) In the wonderful "Family Tree," hangdog Chris O'Dowd ("Bridesmaids," "The IT Crowd"), finding his life stalled after losing a girlfriend and a job in short order, goes in search of his roots and relatives. It's a trip that takes him into the theater, a boxing club, England's rural north, the back end of pantomime horse and finally to America. Michael McKean, a regular member of Guest's repertory company, plays Tom's father; Nina Conti his troubled ventriloquist sister. Jim Piddock, another Guest player, co-wrote the series and also appears in it, as Tom's antique-dealing downstairs neighbor. Familiar faces Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr. and Amy Seimetz will also arrive in due time.
    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    "Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

    Tags: Ed Begley Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Patricia Heaton, The Office (tv program), Scandal (tv program)

    6. May 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Review: HBO's 'Family Tree' rooted in warm, goofy eccentricity

    Christopher Guest, the director of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO.
    Christopher Guest, the director of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO. The eight-episode "Family Tree," which premieres Sunday, is his first work in seven years, and like his films it is sweet and funny and not a little...

    Tags: Jim Piddock, Preston Sturges, Christopher Guest, England, Television

    7. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. McNamara's Picks: 'Scandal,' 'Family Tree,' 'Elementary'

    "Scandal": Shonda Rhimes' whacked-out buzzfest of a political drama comes to a much-fanticipated close after its first full season (it debuted as a mid-season replacement.) As super-sleuth and super-stylin' D.C. power-fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) continues her on-again/off-again (currently very much on) affair with the perpetually lovesick President Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) -- your tax dollars at work! -- she and her fellow gladiators are also desperate to reveal the traitor passing state secrets out of the White House directly to terrorists. And the right one this time, please--when they previously, and wrongly, accused the CIA director, he wound up dead.
    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    "Scandal": Shonda Rhimes' whacked-out buzzfest of a political drama comes to a much-fanticipated close after its first full season (it debuted as a mid-season replacement.) As super-sleuth and super-stylin' D.C. power-fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington)...

    Tags: Television Industry, White House, ABC (tv network), Christopher Guest, Kerry Washington

    8. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan

    Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.
    Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at...

    Tags: Breaking Bad (tv program), Bryan Cranston, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    9. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Michael McKean, Jefferson Mays in 'Yes, Prime Minister' at Geffen

    The death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. "Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on the popular '80s sitcom that ran on the BBC, is scheduled to have its U.S. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse on June 12. The company announced Wednesday that the cast will feature Michael McKean, Jefferson Mays and&nbsp;Dakin Matthews.
    The death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. "Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on the popular '80s sitcom that ran on the BBC, is scheduled to have...

    Tags: Government, Tony Awards, Politics, Entertainment Events, Margaret Thatcher

    10. Jan 28, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  10. ‘Dark Knight Returns’: Mark Valley talks Superman, ‘Human Target’

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    Frank Miller's genre-shaking graphic novel “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” is getting the movie treatment. The second installment in the ......
    11. Jan 29, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  11. ‘Dark Knight Returns’: Animated movie inspires tears from Kevin Smith

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    Kevin Smith has no small amount of praise for Frank Miller's “The Dark Knight Returns.” “‘The Dark Knight Returns,' for ......
    12. May 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Michael McKean makes 'break a leg' jokes after breaking leg

    The theatrical expression to "break a leg" is a frequently used backstage salute that means "good luck." For Michael McKean, the "Spinal Tap" actor who was recently appearing in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man," the idiom became literal this week when he was struck by a vehicle in New York and ended up in the hospital with a broken leg and facial lacerations.
    The theatrical expression to "break a leg" is a frequently used backstage salute that means "good luck." For Michael McKean, the "Spinal Tap" actor who was recently appearing in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man," the idiom became literal...

    Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Randy Newman, Upper West Side, Broken Leg, Gore Vidal

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