Jimmy Smits

Dexter: ‘The Damage a Man Can Do’ Preview

The season is steadily winding down as Dexter premieres “The Damage a Man Can Do,” the eighth episode of the current twelve-episode third season, this Sunday, November 16. Jimmy Smits‘ intriguing assistant district attorney...

THANKS FOR NOTHING

If you see Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Eva Mendes or Enrique Iglesias trying to bask in Barack Obama's post-election glow, or score tickets to his inauguration, make sure you don't give them a three-star salute. They were...

TV pilot news: Dylan McDermott tapped for Jerry Bruckheimer pilot

Dylan McDermott (The Practice) has been tapped as the lead in Jerry Bruckheimer’s new cop drama The Line for TNT, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pilot will revolve around a group of undercover LAPD officers as they...

So when are we going to see an Asian American President on mainstream TV or in the movies?

One day a reality or just Photoshop? The New York Times just did a story about “Before Obama, There Was Bill Cosby,” which I found quite coincidental, since I was contemplating recently with all the Obama election victory...

Barack: The master of TV moments

Weekly: Campaign harnessed TV's influence, past -- Even as he watched his political legacy severely tarnished, Republican strategist Karl Rove brought some unintended humor to election night -- stating in his capacity as a Fox...

Where Will Sasha and Malia Go to School?

While Michelle Obama has said that no plans have been made yet, speculation has already started on where the girls will end up. (The new first daughters currently attend the private University of Chicago Lab School, in Hyde...

Interview with Dexter series creator Clyde Phillips

Part of what makes Dexter such a terrific show is its mix of over-the-top action and its subtlety. In this video, series creator Clyde Phillips explains how that mix comes to be in Season 3, including why Jimmy Smits was the...

When Life Imitates Art: Or, I Want A Look At Aaron Sorkin's Crystal Ball

Is it just me, or are you also thinking about the last season of The West Wing today? I have fuzzy recollections of it, having seen each episode only once (unlike the other 6 seasons, that I watched repeatedly on...

Did ‘The West Wing’ presage Obama’s campaign?

There is a very good reason why Barack Obama’s presidential campaign sometimes seems like a real-world echo of a fictional campaign waged on TV. The TV candidate was Matt Santos, the Democrat (played by Jimmy Smits) who was...

'I never dared dream of a black president'

He is not actually among us, but in the pews of the Apostolic Church of God here on the southern edge of Chicago, there is one man who is receiving strength from a thousand private prayers. Here, and indeed in black...

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