kathleen turner-related stories
Posted Oct 26th 2009 9:29AM by Danny Gallagher
(S03E05) -
"Once upon a time's gotta count for something." - Zloz to Hank
Ah, the old friend from back home trick. It's been done so many times before in television. Remember when Rob's old Army buddy came to town in that one episode of
The Dick Van Dyke Show or that one time when Don Rickles met up with his old pal Maxwell Smart on
Get Smart? Those were some good times.
Imagine those episodes with a lot of hookers and copious amounts of beer, whiskey and vodka. Now they are twice as better, even if the hangover isn't as warm and friendly.
Zloz's one episode appearance felt like the makings of another "Guys Gone Wild" episode where the boys do some drinking, make with the smoking and then get into some fighting, but it turned into something much deeper and helped you appreciate the characters more for what they are. The ride was fun, even if you didn't really want to get back in line for it.
Continue reading Review: Californication - Slow Happy Boys
Posted Oct 20th 2009 3:18AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E04) - "You once spent an entire class ranting about how much you hate Coldplay. Something tells me you could care less about what's frowned upon." - Jackie to Hank
Hank is normally the kind of guy most average heterosexual males would form mobs against, complete with rows of flaming torches and pitchforks (used both as weapons and Freudian references to using one's phallus as a weapon).
Still, he's become the most likable monkey in the
Californication barrel. And it's not because he's living a life that would make most Arabian princes jealous. It's because there is a method to his manliness tendencies. He's vulnerable and sees those vulnerabilities in people around him, especially those of the opposite sex with genes that get saved in the secret cabinet in most high priced fertility clinics.
Continue reading Review: Californication - Zoso
Posted Oct 12th 2009 4:20AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E03) - "Don't put Daddy in a corner." - Hank to his daughter, Becca
Something spectacular happened on last Sunday's episode of
Californication, something I've been hoping and waiting to see from a big-budget television show ever since I was old enough to realize what life was worth living for, what makes television worth watching.
Jackie showed us her boobies!
That being said, there was much more to the most recent saga of Hank Moody and company worth mentioning, and Lord knows I could spend a whole review on Eva Amurri's "revealing" opening scene of Hank imaging his star pupil at her night job. Hell, if Joel would let me do a list of TV's best racks, I'd put Jackie's on the number one and two spots, left and right respectively. I have my reasons.
Continue reading Californication: Verities & Balderdash
Posted Sep 28th 2009 1:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S0301) - What's with all the parent plotlines on Showtime? First
Dexter Morgan becomes a new father, and now Hank Moody on
Californication? Granted, it's the perfect penance for a man who has flaunted the consequences of the reproductive act more than the entire British royal family, but it seems eerily similar and way overdone in the world of television.
It does, however, work as an obstacle and a vehicle for conflict for Hank, whose only daughter Becca moves into that awkward living hell on Earth known as "teenagerhood." The opening scene of Hank catching Becca and her new best friend Chelsea stoned out of their gourds pretty much set the tone for some, if not most, of Hank's problems.
How can he tell her to do as he says while still doing what and who he loves most?
Continue reading Californication: Wish You Were Here (season premiere)
Posted Sep 27th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Reality-Free
If you think of all the places that would turn
Californication's Hank Moody into a kid in a candy store, "college campus" should be at the top of your
Family Feud survey.
What would be at the bottom? Probably the Vatican. Then again, an unrepentant sexaholic like Moody always loves a challenge.
The third season follows Moody as he navigates his way through the student body of a local college as an English professor, his relationship with his growing teenage daughter Becca and the rest of his other relationships -- or at least the ones that alcohol hasn't erased from his memory.
Continue reading Californication, season three -- An early look
Posted Sep 13th 2006 7:09AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, OpEd, Nip/Tuck, FX
(S04E02) I'm liking this season so far, but it feels different than seasons past. Plot points are layering themselves very deliberately and it seems like things are really setting up for some explosive episodes later in the season rather than one blow-out after another as we've seen in the past. It feels much more intricate. In last week's premiere, I was quick to chide Ryan Murphy and Co. for neglecting to mention the events of season three, but now that I've thought about it some more, it only seems right that Nip/Tuck attempts to reinvent itself at this stage in the game.
Continue reading Nip/Tuck: Blu Mondae
Posted Sep 6th 2006 6:37AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, OpEd, Nip/Tuck, FX
(S04E01) Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else find it hard to believe that we're already beginning the fourth season of Nip/Tuck? I feel like this show just started yesterday and here we are on the 45th episode of this spectacular series. I guess time flies when you're having fun. And by "fun" I mean boob jobs, unprotected sex, and botox. Lots of botox.
Continue reading Nip/Tuck: Cindy Plumb (season premiere)
Posted Jul 26th 2006 9:58AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Talent, Nip/Tuck, FX
Season four of
Nip/Tuck begins on September 5th with a hefty list of celebrity guests. They are: Larry Hagman, Brooke Shields, Rosie O'Donnell, Catherine Deneuve, Sanaa Lathan, Richard Chamberlain, Kathleen Turner, Jacqueline Bisset, Melissa Gilbert, and Peter Dinklage. Earlier this month,
Joel reported that Mario Lopez will also be a guest star, but he's not on the list released by the network.
Rosie O'Donnell is an interesting choice since she has long been outspoken about hating plastic surgery. Show creator Ryan Murphy points out that O'Donnell is on the show because she 'gets it'. He says, "The show is about the idea that, for the most part, plastic surgery does not solve your problems." I'm not sure what date Rosie's episode airs but you can bet she'll be talking it up with the gals on
The View.
Posted Feb 7th 2006 11:03AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order, Celebrities
Unlike her appearances on
Friends, Kathleen Turner will actually play a woman when she appears on tomorrow night's
Law and
Order. She'll play Rebecca Shane, a fancy pants defense attorney who faces off against A.D.A. Jack McCoy. She
represents a privileged high school student who may or may not have killed another fellow student in desperation to
graduate.
51-year-old Turner currently lives in London, where she is starring in the Edward Albee play
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Apollo Theatre. She
was recently quoted as saying that she's
ready to move to London permanently because Americans don't appreciate older women.
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