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1 First Look: Leverage on TNT
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2 Buzz Interview: Timothy Hutton and His Leverage Crew
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3 Buzz News Roundup, 2/2
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4 First Look: Leverage Season Two
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5 Buzz News Roundup, 8/28
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6 Buzz Readers' 5 Favorite Basic Cable Shows
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7 Link Time — Vince Vaughn Heads to Old St. Louis
Vince Vaughn in talks for Old St. Louis; Chloe Moretz may play his daughter — PopWatch In other Moretz news, she may also star in The Rut — Cinema Blend Brilliant! Stephen Colbert reenacts Real Housewives of New York — Vulture TNT renews The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles, and Leverage — The Wrap Miramax finally sells — Slash Film A new Social Network trailer, now with more Andrew Read more
When TNT's new series Rizzoli & Isles premiered this past week, I asked you if you had love for any other basic cable shows. Once a home for reruns and educational programming, these channels are now a haven for quality original series. Here are the five most talked about shows from you guys. Read more
Kristin Chenoweth will be a guest judge on the next season of American Idol. — Zap2it Mad Men's Christina Hendricks will join Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in Life as We Know It. — Variety Laura Linney will star in The C Word, a new comedy pilot for Showtime about a suburban wife battling cancer. — The Hollywood Reporter Robin Williams will star in the romantic comedy Wedding Banned. Read more
TNT's Leverage earned its spot on my list of monthly must haves because it seems like a perfect show to watch with your feet up and a frosty drink in hand. The series focuses on a band of well-meaning criminals, each with a particular skill that lets them rob the rich, fix injustice, and possibly make some money for themselves along the way. The mastermind of the operation is Nathan Ford (Timothy Read more
Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro, and Gael Garcia Bernal are reportedly circling Martin Scorsese's next drama Silence, based on the Shusaku Endo novel. — Variety TNT has renewed Leverage for a second 15-episode season, which should air later this year. — TV.com Kung Fu Panda swept the Intnl. Animated Film Society's Annie Awards this year, while Wall-E went home empty-handed. — Read more
Leverage, TNT's new heist show, starts Sunday night, and it's a pretty good time — there's some Ocean's Eleven flavor mixed with a little bit of The A-Team and some Robin Hood for good measure. Last month, TNT invited me to Los Angeles to interview the cast — including star Timothy Hutton, who plays Nathan Ford, the mastermind who helps a crew of thieves steal from the rich and greedy Read more
I have a huge soft spot in my heart for Timothy Hutton (mostly thanks to Beautiful Girls). But while he's what initially attracted me to the new TNT series Leverage, which premieres in December, he might not be the only reason to stick around. Leverage focuses on a group of criminals who are, essentially, the high-action version of Robin Hood: They use their schemes and skills to take revenge Read more
Neurotic Roger Sterling finds truth on this week's episode of Mad Men with the help of LSD. Thanks to his experimental much younger wife, Jane, Roger reluctantly attends a dinner party, which becomes much more interesting once acid comes into the mix. As expected, this season of Mad Men is full of historical references from 1966. If you paid close attention to Roger's one-liners, you may have Read more
While some women — celebrities and otherwise — may not be able to find the right words to fight back against mean-spirited comments about their appearance, when Ashley Judd was hit with remarks that attacked her "puffy" face and weight gain, she had a great response. During the last month or so, Ashley has been in the public eye for her swollen-looking face that some have concluded must Read more
If bread is the staff of life, then this cook has been wobbling on shaky legs for much of her culinary career. What is it about baking bread that's so daunting? I suppose I've rationalized my bread-baking evasion by telling myself it takes too long and my spaghetti-noodle arms can't knead well enough. But I recognize those are silly excuses, so this week I set about tackling the easiest bread Read more
