Fresh thoughts while my family and I are watching these stars, fashions and Red Carpet interviews which have become the first part of the Golden Globe Awards’ Doubleheader… The pre-show is really as much of a show as the show; and for the younger generation, there’s actually quite a bit more interest in the pre-show…

Maybe it’s the current melancholic climate in the country, but I found “Superstars of Dance,” NBC’s Eurovision-esque dance competition, to be far more engaging Monday night than the “inner beauty pageant” of “True Beauty.” Now I have nothing against the concept of testing the ethical attractiveness of ten of America’s hottest men and women, but…

Watch this exclusive clip from “The Walton’s: Season 8” DVD, where the narrator Earl Hamner, whose family the hit show was based on, talks about how the show celebrated values in American life.

Last spring I wrote about the superb documentary At the Death House Door when I interviewed its subject, Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous “Walls” prison unit in Huntsville. The film was the first-time direction collaboration between award-winning directors Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) and Peter Gilbert…

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