Alicia Silverstone won everyone over with her portrayal of a Beverly Hills teen, Cher Horowitz, whose penchant for helping others with their relationships and self-esteem is a cover for her own loneliness. Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) made a smart, funny variation on Jane Austen’s novel Emma, sweetly romantic and gently satirical […]
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Series
She finally made it after all. Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is the very model of a tailor-made star vehicle. It transformed Moore from Dick Van Dyke’s wacky housewife to empowered thirtysomething single woman determined to make it on her own. Moore was the anchor of a […]
Calendar Girls
In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren) cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends–all fiftysomething […]
M*A*S*H: The Series
The setting was Korea, 1950. They were a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. Incoming helicopters full of wounded brought the horrors of war to them daily and sometimes bullets flew right outside the operating room door. Occasional hilarity and constant hijinks were all that kept them sane. Loosely […]
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