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HBO likes being in the Aaron Sorkin business, even if critics aren’t quite so pleased. Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” which bowed late last month to mediocre ratings, has been renewed for a second season by the pay cable giant. The series
Through the super PAC disguised as HBO, Bill Maher uses his weekly multi-million dollar platform to offer President Obama’s reelection his full-throated support. As though that wasn’t enough, Maher also donated a cool million to a pro-Obama super PAC. Now, via
Beheading former President George W. Bush and putting his head on a stake, as HBO’s series “Game of Thrones” did, was too much for Camryn Manheim, one of the stars of the film “The Hot Flashes.” She lamented to FOX411’s Pop Tarts
Our scene opens with two young HBO executives sitting across from each other, smoking furiously. One guy is slim and blonde, the other is slim and dark-haired. A plate of fresh vegetables is on the table between them, and while the blonde
Had an adult thought of this a few months ago, just think of all the time, pain and money that might have been saved… HBO just ensured its first shipment of “Game of Thrones: Season One” on DVD and Blu-ray would
With all the hype and publicity, there’s no way to spin 2.1 million viewers into anything other than a disappointment. As Deadline points out, “Newsroom” did better than “Luck” and “Treme,” which both premiered to 1.1 million viewers, but less than “Game of
Gee, Aaron Sorkin makes things up to bash his own country? Color me not at all shocked. HBO allowing lies to be told on its network to advance a political agenda? That’s HBO’s brand. Kyle Smith: In the speechiest moment
Emily Mortimer, star of HBO’s new Aaron Sorkin drama, “Newsroom,” lashed out at the Tea Party and Americans in general: There’s so much wrong with England, but I think people are informed in general. I’m going to make a huge
While appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” NBC News’ Rachel Maddow took the opportunity to randomly slam Breitbart in a vain attempt to suggest that the Fast and Furious scandal, which resulted in the death of hundreds including
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin could write a Martian character as convincingly as one who pledges allegiance to the GOP. Based on Sorkin’s work, he’s never met either an alien or a bona fide conservative. That hasn’t been an issue until recently.
ABC News’s Jake Tapper is one of the good guys, one of the few reporters I wish I could asterisk every time I use the term “corrupt media” — a term I use about sixty times a day. Tapper not
HBO’s supposed faux pas in placing a model of George W. Bush’s head atop a spike in its hit series Game of Thrones may in fact have run afoul of the law. Back in 2006, ABC News reported on a faux documentary made about
The lead character in Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series “The Newsroom” “slices up” right-wingers and the “ensemble beams at him, their eyes glowing as if they were cultists,” according to New Yorker magazine. Such a formula usually wins plaudits among
Though I found the evolving excuses of the “Game of Thrones” producers to be laughably incoherent and illogical, it does look as though HBO was caught off guard and is now taking some proactive steps to remedy the situation: The
By MARK KENNEDYAP Drama WriterNEW YORKAl Pacino is returning to the ugly world of real estate _ he’s revisiting “Glengarry Glen Ross” on Broadway this fall. Producers said Thursday that the Oscar winner will play the role of Shelly Levene
What a shame that the day after we learn HBO’s “Game of Thrones” featured the head of President George W. Bush on a spike the network unveils a kind-hearted documentary about his father, President George Herbert Walker Bush. “41,” debuting
The producers behind HBO’s “Game of Thrones” would’ve been better off had they simple said what is likely the truth, that they hate George W. Bush and impaled his prosthetic head on a pole for the kind of childish shits
The hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” features some epic sword battles and gore. And, apparently, the disembodied head of the 43rd President of the United States. (See video below) The web site io9.com reports the first season DVD of
(AP) HBO documentarians look for Bush the manBy DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterNEW YORKTourism officials in Maine will be delighted when they see HBO’s new documentary on President George H.W. Bush. The leisurely paced film has so many pictures of waves
Back in April, we introduced readers to Hollywood writer and producer Daniel Knauf’s latest creation, something he calls a “Box-Narrative.” The first foray into this new narrative, “Bxx: Haunted” can be found at www.bxxweb.com. The site has garnered much attention
By HILARY FOXAssociated PressCANNES, FranceNicole Kidman’s red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes. The actress’s husband _ musician Keith Urban _ made the trip from Sydney, where’s he’s been filming “The Voice,” to escort her
On his HBO show Bill Maher attacked Romney faith with a “wifer” bit saying that Romney has secretly taken on multiple wives.
On the most recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, the host ripped into Andrew Breitbart and “The Vetting” project, claiming that Barack Obama had already been examined by the press in 2008, and that Breitbart’s website had
Floyd Mayweather once called a talk radio host a “faggot.” He mocked a fellow boxer Miguel Cotto, for sharing a bed–while training for a fight–with his male trainer, whom Cotto, who is married to a female, considers a brother. Mayweather’s
Pretty easy to see how desperate the left is when one of Obama’s top financial supporters says this on national cable television: Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s Conan show on TBS, the HBO comedian absurdly suggested that recent allegations of
