Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a condition in which people have long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions, such as feelings about themselves and others. Because some people with severe borderline personality disorder have brief psychotic episodes, experts originally thought of this illness as atypical, or borderline, versions of other mental disorders. While mental health […]
Archives for December 2005
Bewitched: The Series
The first, and perhaps most magical, season of Bewitched still casts an enchanting spell. For escapist fantasy, this series, no doubt inspired by the play Bell, Book and Candle, broke significant television ground.The Stephens were sitcoms’ first mixed marriage. Advertising executive Darrin Stephens (Dick York) was mortal, and wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) was a witch. […]
Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2006
From his earliest days reviewing movies on TV in 1975, Roger Ebert has enjoyed success because he developed a special connection with viewers. His ‘thumbs up’ recommendation is part of the American lexicon. Because he has been the most welcome of weekly guests in our homes for three decades, TelevisionWeek is proud to name Roger […]
Pride & Prejudice
During the late 18th century, the Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet (Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn) and their five daughters—Jane (Rosamund Pike), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), Mary (Talulah Riley), Kitty (Carey Mulligan), and Lydia (Jena Malone)—live in comparative financial independence as gentry on a working farm in rural England. As Longbourn is destined to […]