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Posted Sep 12th 2008 12:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Early Looks, Reality-Free

Once upon a time, Hollywood made movies like Lifetime's
Coco Chanel all the time. They were called women's pictures and gave the biggest stars of the times amazing roles, Bette Davis in
Now, Voyager, Greer Garson in
Mrs. Miniver, Rosiland Russell in
Sister Kenny. Watching this excellent TV movie starring Shirley MacLaine as the older Coco and newcomer Barbora Bobulova as young Coco, I was enthralled and entertained.
You won't find a better TV movie on HBO or CBS or Hallmark Channel or anywhere else on the dial -- Lifetime set the bar high with this expansive biopic and then delivered the goods. Forget your idea of what a Lifetime movie is --
Coco Chanel is no victim of the week. If the intent was re-branding Lifetime movies with this effort, the cable net has hit it out of the park.
Continue reading Coco Chanel - An early look
Posted Apr 24th 2007 8:40AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: NBC, OpEd, Heroes, Episode Reviews
(S01E19) It's Linderman's voice we hear over the "previously on
Heroes" opening segment, rather than that of previous narrator Mohinder. That's an improvement. To tell you the truth I didn't know what to expect tonight.
Heroes seems like it has been gone so long, I started worrying that its return would inevitably fail to live up to my anticipation.
I needn't have worried. I quickly found myself falling right back into the groove of the show. My favorite storyline was the Texas one. I enjoyed HRG's orchestration of the escape, using his knowledge of Matt and Ted's powers. As the Eric Roberts character will later say of HRG to
the Artist Mohinder: "Glasses? Tall fella? He's no longer with the company." No doubt.
Continue reading Heroes: .07%
Posted Mar 6th 2007 6:41AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, NBC, OpEd, Heroes

(S02E18) "Company Man" last week gave us many dimensions of one character. This week's awesomeness gives us many events snowballing throughout the
Heroes universe. New characters, new secrets about old characters, and in anticipation of a month-plus hiatus, some tantalizing cliffhangers.
If this episode had been a football game, then I would say it was remarkable for its extraordinary number of turnovers. Time after time, when one character thinks he or she has the drop on another -- surprise! It isn't so.
Continue reading Heroes: Parasite