kevin bacon-related stories
Posted Aug 25th 2009 1:34AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E12) Kind of like the summer season finale for
Burn Notice, it seemed like they saved the best for last with
The Closer. There was an interesting case, a colorful new character to go nose to nose with Brenda, and an up tick in the action, including a chase that was top notch. Kudos to Kevin Bacon who directed the episode and brought it all together.
For a time, it looked like Brenda and Major Crimes were on the trail of a ninja. No, not a real ninja, but a guy dressed all in black who kind of looked like a ninja. He used a blade, albeit a knife, and he was a stone cold killer who showed no mercy and seemed to take pleasure in the kill.
Continue reading The Closer: Waivers of Extradition (summer season finale)
Posted Aug 11th 2009 12:19AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E10) One of the reasons
The Closer is a good show is that it's smart. It presents challenging situations and complicated crimes, and as Brenda and her crew figure out what happened and how to get the guilty to incriminate themselves, the viewer is along for the ride. The title of tonight's show was
Smells Like Murder. I think the subhead should have been, smells like a dud.
There was a good premise, a decent set up, suspects that were interesting ... all the elements were there. What went wrong was character. Things happened that were so out of character that it sunk the entire episode. More on that -- and Jack in the box -- after the jump.
Continue reading The Closer: Smells Like Murder
Posted Apr 23rd 2009 4:29PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
On
The Closer,
Kyra Sedgwick rarely gets the chance to dance. She plays a homicide detective in Los Angeles, for goodness sake! But as the harried Brenda Leigh Johnson, the actress didn't even share a waltz with her new TV hubby Fritz after their wedding on the season finale last winter.
However, have you seen Kyra strut her stuff in this new orange juice commercial? Not only is the commercial terrific, it's a little bit of an homage to Kyra's real life husband, actor-director Kevin Bacon.
Continue reading Kyra's doing wonders for orange juice
Posted Oct 6th 2008 10:25AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
It looks like more period dramas (such as
The Tudors) are headed to pay cable. And this time, "Booth" will not refer to a character on the TV show
Bones.
Kevin Bacon will be executive-producing The Booths, a period drama about the Booth brothers, the most infamous of which, John Wilkes Booth, went on to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
It sounds like an interesting project. I do like historical dramas, but I'm always disappointed at their tendency to sacrifice historical accuracy for the sake of drama. Of course, when it's good drama, nobody seems to notice.
The nicest thing about being Kevin Bacon, other than being a famous actor, must be that it takes the fewest amount of steps to be in a Kevin Bacon movie for that
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game (the total number of steps would be, I believe, zero). One can say with surefire honesty that Kevin Bacon has been in all of Kevin Bacon's movies.
Posted Aug 26th 2008 8:05AM by Brett Love
Filed under: The Closer, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S04E07)
The Closer continues to get some great mileage out of the supporting cast in season four. With episodes featuring Flynn and Provenza already in the books, this week Sanchez steps to the front of the stage. The resulting story was quite a bit darker than what we saw with "
Dial M For Provenza." As Sanchez dealt with the murder of his younger brother, we got to take a closer look at him than the usual episode provides.
Continue reading The Closer: Sudden Death
Posted Jul 25th 2007 9:27AM by Michael Maloney
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, The Closer, Heroes, Brothers and Sisters, TCA Press Tour, Awards
After 15 consecutive days of Mohammed (TV shows) coming to the mountain (the Beverly Hilton hotel), today the mountain (actually, the TCA membership) went to Mohammed. Two bus loads of TV critics boarded vehicles to hit five sound stages and the offices of TMZ.com.
First up was The Closer at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. Kyra Sedgwick and other cast members of the TNT drama mixed and mingled on the show's squad room set. Most reporters hovered around Sedgwick to inquire about her Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, the show's new season and husband Kevin Bacon.
Continue reading Set visits to The Closer, TMZ, Cold Case, Two and a Half Men, Brothers & Sisters - TCA report
Posted Dec 5th 2006 12:32PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, TNT, The Closer
(
S02E14&15) I decided to sleep on it before writing this review, and I'm still confused as hell. This episode of
The Closer required intense concentration. There were a lot of names -- Russian, Arabic, American -- thrown at us, as well as a lot of terrorist scenarios.
The story/investigation was so complicated that we only got to see hints of Dep. Chief Johnson's unusual personality. I enjoyed the little tidbits in the first hour that showed her restless at her house as she waited for the investigation to conclude about the shooting in her murder room. Like you would imagine, she attempted gardening, but appeared to have killed all the plants. And she tried to go for a jog but ended up at the pastry shop "that I
hate!" down the street.
Continue reading The Closer: Serving the King (Pt. 1 & 2)
Posted Dec 4th 2006 10:07AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, TNT, The Closer
Brenda Leigh Johnson is back for just one night! TNT is airing a special, BRAND NEW episode of
The Closer tonight at 8 pm.
The Closer wrapped its second season at the end of the summer, but it was
so successful that TNT decided to tease us with one more mystery before bringing back
season three next summer.
Tonight features back-to-back episodes that have Brenda going off the books. While on paid leave after the
season finale's shoot-out in the murder room, Brenda is asked by an "old friend" to solve the murder of an Arab teenager who is connected to terrorists. She'll be in a race to solve the case and protect her team from the divisive Commander Taylor. The second hour is directed by star Kyra Sedgwick's husband, Kevin Bacon.
Posted Nov 14th 2006 9:34AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, TNT, The Closer
If you don't know Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, you should. You can meet her on Thanksgiving day, when TNT plans to air a season one marathon of
The Closer. That's 13 episodes in a row of the overly-friendly, but-just-a-little-bitchy "Thank You" that Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) delivers so well.
The Thanksgiving marathon is in preparation for a new, two-hour episode that airs December 4th. In it, Brenda is called upon by the CIA to assist in an "off-the-record investigation of a would-be defector found murdered in Los Angeles." Johnson has to find a link between the death of a KGB agent, several CIA agents, a young terror suspect and 20 pounds of missing plutonium. The second hour of that episode, called Serving the King, is directed by star Sedgwick's husband, Kevin Bacon.
Also, following the special, two-hour event, season two of
The Closer will air every Tuesday night at 10 pm starting on December 5th.
Posted Jul 27th 2006 5:37PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Talent, Industry, Celebrities, TNT, The Closer
TNT
announced yesterday that Kevin Bacon will direct the second-season finale of their hit show
The Closer. The episode will be a two-parter that is set to air in December.
Of course, Bacon's famous enough to get this job on his own, but he does have a little "in" with the show: series star Kyra Sedgwick, who just happens to be Bacon's wife. This is apparently the third time he's directed her in a project; he directed Sedgwick in
Losing Chase, his directorial debut, and the theatrical film
Loverboy.
According to his IMDb profile, those are Bacon's only two directorial credits. Hm. Maybe Kyra's a security blanket for him. Anyway, his next directorial effort should be Kyra-free. Maybe J.J. Abrams will let him direct an episode of
Six Degrees, just for shits and giggles.
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