The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
"There is no real me," whispers Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) conspiratorially to a journalist. "I had it surgically removed." That joke is the basis of the made-for-HBO biographical drama of the troubled, self-destructive comic genius: a man emotionally unavailable to the people around him. In this interpretation, which follows Sellers from childhood to death, the actor is not so much a hedonist.... Read Full Review
In Living Color: Season Three
(1991-1992) Created by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the Fox network half-hour sketch comedy series launched not only the careers of his brothers Damon, Shawn, and Marlon, but also Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx, David Alan Grier, and -- most memorably -- Jim Carrey, and gave Jennifer Lopez her first television exposure as one of the Fly Girls. It was an urban alternative to Saturday Night Live, offering humor with an African American.... Read Full Review
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Complete Second Season
(1958-1959) Richard Boone is Paladin, the classically educated gunfighter who lives large in a San Francisco hotel, reads newspapers voraciously, quotes poetry and references Greek philosophers, and hires out his gun but only in a just cause. His card is known around the west: a picture of a white knight chess piece and the simple motto: "Have Gun - Will Travel...Wire Paladin, San Francisco." Boone is a different.... Read Full Review
Six Feet Under: The Complete Third Season
Coming next week: The third season of the most sensitive, complex, honest, and forgiving portrait of family dysfunction on TV opens with abrupt changes: Nate (Peter Krause), having survived surgery, is married to Lisa (Lili Taylor), the mother of his child and Rico (Freddy Rodríguez) becomes a partner, which complicates relations in the family funeral business. Creator Alan Ball (Oscar winning screenwriter of America Beauty) uses humor.... Read Full Review