The cold open: In television, it’s a scene that begins an episode before the title sequence, often without leading characters but almost always with foreshadowing hooks...
Great musical comedies are great mysteries, and not just because they’re so rare. They’re also mysteries in the way they operate. To succeed, they must keep...
Apple TV+ bills “The Studio,” its Seth Rogen-led skewering of the Hollywood studio system, as a “comedy.” It is also, according to the show’s costume designer,...
And then there’s Valentina, an astrophysicist who, 40 years earlier, hooked up with Grampy when he visited the real world. The best thing to say about...
One of the many merits of “Summer of Fire and Blood” is how Roper — despite being the author of a luminous biography of Luther —...
1985 “That’s the ticket” Uttered by Jon Lovitz’s pathological liar character, Tommy Flanagan, when he’d hit upon a particularly egregious whopper, this line was also Lovitz’s...
The Africa Center in New York has named a new leader, Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat with a multidisciplinary background who embodies the wide spectrum...
