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Abs(tin)ence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? The Top 5 Television Shows Putting the Romance Back Into Relationships
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Donna Freitas
Chastity seems all the rage this season on most of my TV series favorites—both old and new. So much so that I wonder—what has sparked such a trend? From where does this loving-from-afar inclination stem? Are viewing audiences simply tired of the “we like each other so let’s hop into bed” motif to which we’ve…
The Message in the Marathon: A Thanksgiving Thought
By
Douglas Howe
Thanksgiving Day TV was filled with marathons. The western marathons. The “Cold Case” marathon. The Alfred Hitchcock marathon. Football marathon. “Charmed” marathon. “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” marathon. While marathons may be really fun traditions, they don’t say much about the actual reason for the day itself. That’s why I was so happy to see…
Diamond’s ‘Caroline’ is a Kennedy? Sweet…
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Esther Kustanowitz
Now a staple at karaoke bars, Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” has been plaguing–oops, I meant “entertaining”–music fans for years. Forty years, actually. (Which is how long the Jews wandered, post-Egypt, in the desert before reaching the Holy Land. But I digress.) But the song’s inspirational origins are now revealed, as Diamond announced to the Associated…
‘Saving Grace’: Holly Hunter Finds an Angel, Has a Drink
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Paul O'Donnell
I’ve been catching up recently with “Saving Grace,” Holly Hunter’s vehicle on TNT, in which she plays an Oklahoma City police detective who, “Joan of Arcadia”-like, gets regular visits from a messenger of God. Her communication with the Higher Power is about all Hunter’s character has in common with that earlier show’s sweet, small-town teen.…
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