Linda Stasi
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Anna Nicole Smith’s story in all its sleazy glory
Anna Nicole Smith dreamed of living large. She dreamed of being Marilyn Monroe. What Smith probably never understood is that her tragic idol wanted to live smaller — or at...
Paula Deen’s Food Channel exit way overdue
The Food Network should have given Paula Deen the boot years ago. And not just because she shamelessly pushed killer diabetes-inducing food and then hooked up with a pharmaceutical company...
Season 6 finale shocks 'Mad' fans
Shocking, sure. Well-deserved, you bet. An hour after Nik Wallenda walked the high wire over the Grand Canyon on live TV and didn’t plummet, Don Draper fell off the wire...
Stephen King, Steven Spielberg team for 'Under the Dome'
What happens when the world’s most prolific writer, Stephen King, and the insanely prolific producer Steven Spielberg get together? What else? You know bad things will befall good people in...
REVIEW: 'Mad Men' Season 6 finale
Shocking, sure. Well deserved, you bet. An hour after Nik Wallenda walked the high wire over the Grand Canyon on live TV and didn’t plummet, Don Draper fell off the...
Reel good
Black Swan, 2010 Today, 6:30 p.m., AMC Natalie Portman won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Nina, the nut job ballet dancer desperate to please her smothering mother...
‘Monsters’ ink
Nothing guarantees reality TV stardom like big hair. “Big” used to mean big hair on small Jersey drunks, but sometime in the last couple of years, big hair migrated down...
'Naked and Afraid' contestants battle elements, and each other
Richard Hatch eat your heart out! Remember the first season of “Survivor” with awful, lazy tub Richard-the-Hatcher, who spent most of his time sitting around naked, hatching wicked schemes until...
'Devious Maids' delivers dirty-minded fun
What would you call the demon love child of “Desperate Housewives” and “Down and Out In Beverly Hills?” I know! I know! How about Lifetime’s rollicking new show, “Devious Maids”—...
Jodi Arias' blood lust shifts from courtroom to TV
If too much Jodi Arias is never enough Jodi Arias, then you are about to get an even more intimate dose than the over-four-month- long TV trial provided. Yes, on...
'Blood & Oil' premiere spoiled by contrived Cutter family
Oh, the poor Cutter family. They are just regular Joes who happen to be in the oil business in Ohio. They discovered oil 30 years ago on the Ohio family...
'America's Got Talent’ hits all the right notes
Is it even possible that “America’s Got Talent” actually gets more talented with each new year and each new judge? After watching the first few new episodes this season with...
Reel good
Grease, 1978 Sunday, 10:04 a.m., AMC It’s hot and annoying outside, so this is a good time to stay indoors for National Endlessly Entertaining Movie Week. OK, there is no...
'Poisoned Passions' reveals sordid saga of Bloomingdale's heir
Sure, he may have been the scion to the Bloomingdale fortune. Sure, his wife Betsy was the socialite of socialites. Sure, he was an S&M freak. Welcome to the wonderful...
'Vice' exposes Dennis Rodman buffoonery
Our brilliant ambassador to the world, Dennis Rodman, excoriated President Obama for not holding out the hand of friendship to brutal North Korean dictator/god Kim Jung-un. But that didn’t stop...
'Magic City' is all splash and no substance
The hugely atmospheric, almost-there series from Starz, “Magic City,” returns on Friday night. It’s still not as well-written or plotted as it should be — but it still sure looks...
Your first look at the new season of 'True Blood'
Lesbian vampires, three-way werewolf sex, skinless naked ladies romping about the glen! Oh yes, and one old-man faerie godfather who seems to keep his clothes on. This Sunday, the two-hour...
‘King & Maxwell’ is just a ‘Moonlighting’ redux
Once upon a time, there was a classic TV romantic comedy called “Moonlighting,” which starred a former super model (Cybill Shepherd) and a wise-ass scruffy future movie star (Bruce Willis)....
Reel good
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008 sun., 8:00 PM, Fox Movie Channel Not very well know is the fact that this movie was made from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922...
The ‘Riot’ act
Pussy Riot, a totally talentless, self-righteous punk not-rock group — who are better at self-promotion than Donald Trump — are the subjects of an endless documentary on HBO about their...