Back on Her Throne, Queen Latifah Regales Audiences with Daytime Talker
Just two months out of the gate and in the midst of her first November sweeps, Queen Latifah is more than holding her own with her eponymous syndicated daytime talker. It’s a competitive landscape with rivals including Bethenny Frankel, Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric—as well as Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil. Unique amongst them, Latifah comes to the hosting chair as a successful musical artist whose career as a breakout female...
Jimi Hendrix Makes Your Heart Sing in PBS American Masters Exploration of His Iconic Career
From the very first notes of “Wild Thing” electrifying the crowd at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 Jimi Hendrix fans will be riveted by a new two-hour American Masters documentary, “Jimi Hendrix – Hear My Train a Comin,’ premiering Tuesday, November 5 on PBS. The documentary traces Hendrix’s meteoric rise as a rock icon and guitar god who came out of humble beginnings in Seattle, and whose life and career...
Another Moral and Ethical Quagmire for Ally Lowen on Sons of Anarchy
Just like Robert Duvall’s character was in “The Godfather,” Robin Weigert’s is the consigliere to a family whose lifeblood is organized crime. As attorney Ally Lowen on FX’s “Sons of Anarchy,” she rides in not on a hot Harley, but with her conservative business suit, medium heels and well-worn briefcase as her arsenal in defending the outlaw motorcycle gang in the fictional Northern California town of Charming. ...
Up Close and In Depth With the Queens of Anarchy, Katey Sagal and Maggie Siff
It may be the men of “Sons of Anarchy” who suck all of the air in the room when they hold secret meetings in their clubhouse, but it is the women who provide much of the motivation for the adrenalized motorcycle gang action that happens in and around the fictional town of Charming, Calif. Gun running. Drug dealing. Prostitution. Murder. Legitimate businesses to cover them up. It’s all there in creator Kurt Sutter’s edgy...
Homeland Puts on a Show in the Corridors of Power and the CIA is Watching
Much goes on inside the Beltway, but it’s not often that a high-profile premiere of a movie or television show takes place within Wi-Fi range of the nation’s capitol. But Washington, DC was indeed the perfect location that pay cabler Showtime chose to screen the first episode of its highly anticipated third season of “Homeland,” which is largely set in its environs– although mainly shot in North...
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