Boob-Tube: Best Television Of 2009 (and the decade)

Jake Arky, 12.18.2009

Writer and performer

It is the end of the year and the end of the decade. For some of you, it will be a time of sitting down to family dinners, exchanging gifts, and creat...

Welcome to HuffPost LA

Willow Bay, 12.02.2009

Senior Editor of The Huffington Post; television journalist and author

Our goal is to give LA a page of its own, where bloggers can express themselves on the issues that matter to them -- whether they're substantive, sublime, simple or just plain fun.

Q&A: Actress Jennifer Garner Is Treated to The Invention of Lying

Brad Balfour, 10.10.2009

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

British comic Ricky Gervais has one kicky concept behind his directorial debut, The Invention of Lying. On an alternate earth, humanity lacks the capacity for lying so truth-telling is just telling.

Screens, Everywhere

Lisa Napoli, 10.06.2009

Author of "Three Good Things"

I find it terribly depressing that we are all anesthetized by screens wherever we go. How can I feel that way since while away countless hours in front of another screen? Is it because this one lets me talk to it?

Movie Review: The Invention of Lying

Marshall Fine, 12.01.2009

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

Gervais and his co-writer/director create one premise, then seem to shift to something else - and then to something else again. But the conceptual problems are less troubling than the essential shortage of laughs.

Rated TV-MA: How Sex Came of Age on Television

Mr. Skin, 11.22.2009

The world’s foremost authority on celebrity nudity

Explosions and mechanical mayhem have supplanted plot and character at the movies and thus, the simple art of storytelling has moved into living rooms. Where plots develop and characters grow, sex happens.

Back to School!

Jilly Gagnon, 11.09.2009

Writer

School isn't so bad when you're making it a better place, like they did in the 80's documentary, 21 Jump Street!

DVDs: Japanese Noir? Hai!

Michael Giltz, 11.08.2009

Freelance writer and raconteur

Movie and television reviews of DVDs, from little-known Japanese classics to The Office "Season Five."

Oh Unlucky Day!

Tamar Abrams, 09.03.2009

Tamar Abrams is a strategic communications consultant based in Arlington, VA.

I confess that I dread August 4 each year. Bad things have happened in my life on August 4 -- two cataclysmic events.

Father, Writer, Actor, Father

Gildart Jackson, 07.19.2009

The making of this movie was a family adventure. And we quickly found that this was the way we needed to look at it -- and the way we needed to sell it to our family!

HuffPost Review: Year One

Marshall Fine, 07.19.2009

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

I wish Jack Black well. I really do. And Michael Cera, too. Funny guys, both of them. But I'm sorry, films like Year One just aren't going to cut it anymore.

Lovin' Her: Oscar, Thy Name Be Maya Rudolph

David Wild, 07.18.2009

TV Writer, Rolling Stone Contributing Editor and author of "He Is . . . I Say"

Let the Academy be officially forewarned: if Maya Rudolph doesn't get an Oscar nomination, then I'm not watching the show.

In the Days of Transparent Social Media, is "Reality" TV Out-Dated?

Shawna Vercher, 07.04.2009

Web Publicist, Social Media Strategist

Maybe we're becoming information snobs, but discerning net surfers are demanding updated and transparent content on a number of subjects.

I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! -- The Train Wreck to End All Train Wrecks

Rob Cohen, 07.02.2009

Mrs. Blago would be completely unheard of if it weren't for the disgusting, grossly illegal, incredibly corrupt, and embarrassingly disgraceful actions of her husband as Governor.

Gitmo Detainees Transferred to 'Big Brother'

Andy Borowitz, 05.22.2009

BorowitzReport.com

The deal drew praise from Senate Democrats, who had earlier blocked the closing of the detention camp, and from CBS executives, who had been desperately searching for something to spice up their fall schedule.

Move Over Obama: Can Amy Poehler Make Us Fall In Love With Government Again?

Adam Hanft, 05.25.2009

Political Columnist, CEO of Hanft Unlimited

He probably hasn't considered it, but President Obama needs Amy Poehler to make government functionaries our next secular saviors.

Long, Hard Probe Finds 'She' Behind 'That's What She Said'

Jason Notte, 05.15.2009

Editor-turned-freelance writer

You could credit Steve Carell, Mike Myers or Dana Carvey for giving the entire world pause when the word "hard" is used in passing conversation, but none of that really answers who "she" is.

Breaking Bad, Saving Grace: Why TV Is Better than Movies

Marshall Fine, 03.27.2009

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

I'm here to say that, as it stands, TV turns out more solid and consistent entertainment every week than the Hollywood movie studios put out between January and October most years.

A Visit with Paul Feig

Mark Joseph, 01.20.2009

Mark Joseph is a producer, author, talk show host and editor of Bullypulpit.com

I recently sat down with Paul Feig, the creator of Freaks & Geeks for an episode of my interview program, The Bully! Pulpit show.

Thankful for Simple Pleasures on Thanksgiving

Mitchell Bard, 12.28.2008

Writer and Filmmaker

I am thankful that my midlife crisis this year didn't involve a sports car or a fling with a younger woman, but instead led me to purchase tickets to seven concerts this past summer.

Scranton Catholics, Defying Bishop, Put Economy Before Religion.

The Ballot Box, 12.01.2008

**By Luis Andres Henao** Last Saturday, Gerri Williams and Audrey Williams sat inside the food court at Steamtown mall escaping the rain that poured ...