Paul Giamatti
Morning Memo: Liv and Royston Split; Jeff Zucker's Secret; Paul Giamatti to Play Dick Cheney?
Page Six meant to report that Katie Couric might be returning to NBC when Jeff Zucker was spotted visiting her Upper East Side apartment, but instead totally outed Mr. Zucker to his wife! The NBC Universal CEO was simply picking up a gift that he asked Katie to buy for his wife for mother's day. [P6] read more »
Declaration of Ignorance
All kinds of people are watching HBO’s seven-part miniseries John Adams, which airs its fifth installment, "Unite or Die," on Sunday night at 9 p.m. Some are HBO loyalists, who will try anything the network puts on the table at least once (even John From Cincinnati, the network’s most glorious failure). Others are people like my parents, who prefer the BBC and PBS and (at least in my dad’s case) war documentaries over edgier network fare. And still others are people more like myself: avid fans of the television, in general, who are bored out of their skulls wandering the post-writers'-strike wasteland of nighttime programming. Is everything on hiatus? Brothers and Sisters, we await your return!
Still, though many young people confess that they are watching the show, nobody seems to talk about it the way they talked about The Sopranos. read more »
Ho! Ho! It’s Fred Claus Time
Sara Vilkomerson's guide to this week's movies: Fred Claus, P2, and Choking Man. read more »
