These scenes for your frantic Friday are not of the S&M or Basic Instinct or even Secretary variety (that's a whole 'nother list.) Sometimes, you've had a really epic and soul-crushing workweek and you don't have time to warm up.  As those recent and soon-to-be-dispro...

Twenty years after barging into Sundance with low expectations and leaving with a robust stake in festival mythology, Steven Soderbergh joined three-quarters of his sex, lies, and videotape cast for a rollicking anniversary screening. Despite conspicuous no-shows James Spader ("I think he was embarr...

I was a fan of Boston Legal from the time it launched. I’ve always been a sap for James Spader. I don’t care what you put him in. To me, he just exudes intelligence and sex appeal. He usually plays tortured characters, but ones with redeeming qualities. The many other actors who’ve...

McCain/Palin supporters are idiots. So said the scribes of ABC's Boston Legal who scripted a show that went out of its way to trash Sarah Palin and elevate the election of Barack Obama to mythical status. Oh. And bloggers are "entry level life forms that intellectually have yet to emerge from t...

When I started my Emmys coverage for this year’s ceremony a while ago, I (as always) had a lot of plans: previews of every category (Got through a lot), reviews of every submitted episode (Almost got through those), and all sorts of other grand schemes that never come to fruition. This is the ...

Were some shocking omissions from the Emmy top 10 lists due to the lack of a photo next to their names on the official eligibility lists (SEE HERE) that voters used as a reminder of contenders when checking off ballots? One of the most notable snubbees tells Gold Derby, "Yes!" and blames t...

Can poor Hugh Laurie ("House") finally win the Emmy, please? He reaped two Golden Globes (2006, 2007), but both times he was nommed for TV's top prize, he got skunked by James Spader ("Boston Legal"). Well, doesn't everybody? Spader's never lost — he's three for three in this c...

[As the Top 10 Comedy and Drama series contenders have been released, and since Gold Derby has been kind enough to grab us the episode titles, I'm going through each submission judging its quality and its potential on the panel. Here's the first Drama Series in contention, a nominee last year that l...

Robert Rodriguez always has like five projects going at the same time. He’s been hard at work “developing� Barbarella (or trying to convince the studio to give him the money to make it with his future wife Rose McGowan in the lead) and just announced a TV show called Women In Chains (also star...

So, mainly what I got for Christmas were tons of new clothes. Oh, and I now have 5 pairs of heels and a pair of boots. Who would have thought I would ever say that? Of course, Christmas would not be the same without my San Francisco Ghirardelli chocolate... mmm... The tin is cooler than the actual c...