Before “Loving Leah” even Sunday night in California, the east coast calls began. The first call came from my parents. “I hope you’re watching this,” they said. I had plans, I told them, and wouldn’t be home for it. Then my friend Suzy called in. “Are you watching this? You need to watch this because…

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are not the most popular nor are they the highest rated award shows to be broadcast on TV. The Golden Globes kick off the season and the Academy Awards bring the conclusion, as well as the highest ratings. But as awards shows go, I like the S.A.G.’s best. Sally Field,…

The most spiritually compelling moment of the Screen Actors Guild Awards came when the Guild paid tribute to those who’d lost their lives since the last gathering. Susan Sarandon shared a very nice tribute to the actors who’ve passed, and there were a lot of them, including…Charlton Heston, Harvey Korman, Cyd Charisse, Robert Prosky, Don…

To say that the final season of “Battlestar Galactica” began with a bang is an understatement: the crew discovers that residual radiation from a nuclear holocaust makes Earth uninhabitable; despondent, Dee shoots herself; and Ellen Tigh is revealed to be the fifth of the “Final Five” Cylons. But, it also started out with a whimper,…

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