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Don't Be A Whiner

Giles Slade | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hbo, Library of Congress, Al Gore, Cnn, National Public Radio, Harvard University Press, Recession, Hillary Clinton, Walt Whitman, Darth Vader, Super Delegates, Reverend Wright, Barack Obama, Steve Nash, Olympics, Politics News

Superdelegates are defecting. Maybe I know how Hillary feels. The "critical success" of my last book left my family broke and tired. My publisher mad...

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Protest Scheduled at HBO Corporate Offices

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Susan Naegle, Hbo, Cathouse Protest, HBO Protest, Prostitution, Cathouse, Cathouse HBO Protest, Bob Herbert, Modern Day Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Entertainment News

A picket line will be in place at the headquarters of HBO on Thursday over Cathouse - The Series, an HBO reality show set in a brothel in Nevada.

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Condi Rice as VP? Richard Clarke and Dana Priest Call Her 'Worst' Ever

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hbo, John McCain, Dana Priest, Warwire, Condoleezza Rice, Condi, Richard Clarke, War, Mccain, Iraq, Bill Maher, Bush, Clarke, Politics News

On Friday's Real Time, Bill Maher raised the question of Condi Rice supposedly testing the waters to be picked as John McCain's running mate.

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Sunday Night History

Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Hanks, HBO John Adams, Laura Linney, David McCullough, US History, Hbo, 'Boomer and Carton in the Morning" on WFAN, John Adams, American Presidents, Entertainment News

What I liked about this John Adams is that it's not by Ken Burns.

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Stop-Loss: Another Hollywood Iraq Film Misses the Mark

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Generation Kill, Hbo, Stop-Loss, Army, Veterans, Rambo, The Green Zone, The War Tapes, Iraq, Rieckhoff, Matt Damon, Toby Keith, Mtv, My Super Sweet Sixteen, Hollywood, Politics News

Iraq and Afghanistan vets must serve as pop culture watchdogs, and help the American public understand what is an accurate portrayal of the Iraq experience... and what is not.

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DVDs: Is Tim Burton Any Good?

Michael Giltz | Posted 03.31.2008 | Entertainment

I love Burton's taste in projects and talent and invariably get excited by the movies he's making... and invariably disappointed when they come out.

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Trusting Teenage Girls: What America Can Learn from HBO's Dr. Paul Weston

Sarah Seltzer | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychotherapy, Therapy, Abstinence Only, Sex, Hbo, Teens, Abstinence-Only, Abstinence, HBO in Treatment, Abstinence Education, Teen Sex, Sexuality, In Treatment, Teenagers, Living News

In order to enable teens to gain knowledge, we first have to trust teens. And like the viewers who can't stand Sophie on In Treatment, there are far too many lawmakers who would rather push them out of view.

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HBO and Autism: Perfect Together

David Kirby | Posted 03.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Autism: The Musical, Entertainment News

The honest little documentary Autism: The Musical lifts the heart up and then slams it right back down on the pavement -- and we love every minute of it.

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An Interview with Tricia Regan, Director of Autism: The Musical

Jacqueline Colette Prosper | Posted 03.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Autism, Tricia Regan, Autism: The Musical, Entertainment News

This movie, I think, shows you, the humanity behind autism--that it's a tough diagnosis that can devastate families.

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John Adams: God Damn America

Steven Waldman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Adams, Founding Faith, Founding Fathers, Jeremiah Wright, HBO John Adams, Hbo, Politics News

Like many of the Revolutionary era, John Adams believed that if we weren't careful, God would damn us or at least withdraw his support.

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The Wire vs. The Sopranos

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 03.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, The Wire, Baltimore Sun, Andre Royo, The Emmy Awards, The Sopranos, David Simon, Entertainment News

Hell, boil the message of The Wire down to one word: appearances. More important than doing the job is the appearance of a job well done.

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HBO to John Adams: We Think You Were a Slob

Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Offthebus, Hbo, John Adams, John Adams HBO Series, John Adams HBO, Paul Giamatti, Home News

Unlike the critics, apparently, I liked the debut episode of the John Adams miniseries on HBO. But even I balked at having Adams portrayed by Paul Giamatti.

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Gettin' Wiggy With It

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 03.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, John Adams, John Adams Miniseries, David McCullough, Entertainment News

Adams' and his pals should have declared that among man's unalienable rights was life, liberty, and the right to show the world his own God-given head of hair.

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HBO Forces Out Head Of Entertainment Programming

AP | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Hbo, Carolyn Strauss, Carolyn Strauss HBO, Carolyn Strauss Fired, Media News

NEW YORK — The head of entertainment programming at HBO, Carolyn Strauss, is leaving that role, the cable channel said Monday. The HBO veteran ...

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Why John Adams is Cooler Than Roger Clemens

Ashleigh Banfield | Posted 03.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: John Adams, History, HBO John Adams, David McCullough, Hbo, Entertainment News

We truly need this HBO John Adams American history lesson to permeate prime time and cut through the clutter of today's pop smear.

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'John Adams' Premiere: Talking To Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks And David McCullough

Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Hanks, Hbo, John Adams, Paul Giamatti, David McCullough, Tom Hooper, HBO Johan Adams, Entertainment News

The long-awaited HBO adaptation of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize winning John Adams got the green light a year ago, and the seven-part mini serie...

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HBO Teams Up With US Postal Service To Promote "John Adams"

New York Times | Stuart Elliot | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Hbo, HBO Letter Writing, HBO Postal Service John Adams, John Adams Letter Writing, HBO John Adams, Postal Service, HBO Postal Service, John Adams, Postal Service John Adams, US Postal Service, Media News

HBO and the Postal Service are joining forces for the first time to co-sponsor a multimillion-dollar multimedia campaign that is intended to evoke the...

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In Virtual Treatment

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Psychotherapy, Therapy, In Treatment Reviews, Hbo, In Treatment, Entertainment News

It's amazing how, once you're in treatment, what happens in the therapist's office starts to seem like your true life, and what happens outside becomes mere fodder for the main event of dissecting it in that isolated room.

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George Carlin Preps 14th HBO On "The Bullshit In America"

AP | John Rogers | Posted 02.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, George Carlin, It's Bad for Ya, Entertainment News

Long before he went on stage and began to say "The Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV," got arrested for it in Milwaukee and saw the battle over free...

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HBO Launches YouTube Channel To Help Boost Sluggish "In Treatment" Ratings

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 02.26.2008 | Home

Read More: HBO YouTube, HBO in Treatment, Hbo, Youtube, In Treatment YouTube, In Treatment, Home News

Critics like "In Treatment," HBO's psychotherapy serial, but viewers don't. It's one of the lowest-rated original series HBO has ever aired. HBO's man...

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DVDs: Long Live Blu-Ray!

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Ang Lee, Don Rickles, Jake Gyllenhaal, Criterion, Nicole Kidman, Peanuts, Tv, Blu-Ray, George Clooney, Hd-Dvd, Movies, Animation, Tommy Lee Jones, Entertainment News

If the studios think we're all going to happily replace our library of movies and TV shows on DVD with Blu-Ray, they are in for a rude awakening.

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The Wire: A Chat with Michael Kenneth Williams

Jacqueline Colette Prosper | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Wire, Trapped in a Closet, R. Kelly, Hbo, Michael Kenneth Williams, Omar Little, Entertainment News

A gay, shotgun-toting stick-up man, Omar lives by a strict moral code, rarely uses profanity and never deviates from his rule of only robbing drug dealers.

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Star Of HBO's Anorexia Documentary Found Dead

New York Post | Posted 02.12.2008 | Media

Read More: HBO Thin, Hbo, HBO Anorexia, Polly Williams Dead, Polly Williams, Media News

Polly Williams, who was featured in last year's harrowing HBO documentary "Thin" about anorexic women, was found dead Friday, believed to be a suicide...

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HBO Cancels "Inside The NFL" After 31 Years

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 02.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Hbo, Inside the NFL, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Media News

More than 30 years after it began its run on HBO, "Inside the NFL" is leaving the field after Wednesday night's show. The signature highlights show t...

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DVDs: The Cover-up Of The Assassination of Jesse James....

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, TV Shows, Beatles, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt, Jesse James, Jack Lemmon, Casey Affleck, Er, Westerns, Documentaries, Animated Movies, Disney, Movies, Dvds, Entertainment News

Though this isn't some revisionist demythologizing work, the beauty of the images does reinforce the aura of "hero" that surrounded the basically thuggish outlaw Jesse James.

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