Linda Holmes

A Farewell To 'The Office': The 10 Best Episodes

Linda Holmes — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:31:28 +0000

It really only hit yesterday: It's the end of The Office.

After nine seasons, Dunder Mifflin is going dark Thursday night, with an hour-long retrospective at 8:00 and a 75-minute episode at 9:00 that may or may not feature a cameo from Steve Carell.

Why Angelina Jolie's Op-Ed Matters

Linda Holmes — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:28:00 +0000

Pop culture does not mean celebrity culture; I have perhaps said this more often than anyone you're going to meet. Who dates, who gets a divorce, who has a tantrum, who has surreptitious photos snapped of him by mangy, grim opportunists — these things are not culture of any kind, popular or otherwise, unless there is something else at stake. They are curiosities, and given that we are curious creatures, their pull is not surprising, nor is it new, nor was it invented by the internet, or television, or Americans.

MTV's Musical Legacy: How 'Unplugged' Sold The Radio Star

Linda Holmes — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:32:02 +0000

It's generally understood that something about MTV was revolutionary.

Boston's Art Museums Offer Free Admission To Provide A 'Place Of Respite'

Linda Holmes — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:29:00 +0000

UPDATE, 4:08 p.m.: In addition to the institutions mentioned below, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has announced that admission will be free on Wednesday, April 17.

At least two art museums in Boston, the Museum Of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art, have announced that admission on Tuesday will be free as a service to a city still dealing with the trauma of the explosions Monday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Big Hair, Big Shoulders And Big Money: Linda Evans On '80s Excess

Linda Holmes — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:16:00 +0000

You may find a hint to the era in which you were born (as well as your taste in entertainment) in Linda Wertheimer's clarification that on the '80s nighttime soap Dynasty, actress Linda Evans played Krystle Carrington — Krystle with a K, that is.

Thank G-O-O-D-N-E-S-S: The National Spelling Bee Adds Meaning

Linda Holmes — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:51:00 +0000

As Eyder Peralta reported last night, the National Spelling Bee has made a big change to its rules.

For the first time, the written (or computerized) test students use to qualify for the semifinals and championship finals will include vocabulary questions requiring them to know the meanings of words, not just the spelling.

'Arrested Development' Comes Back On Netflix On May 26, So Get Extra Sleep Now

Linda Holmes — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:52:36 +0000

Netflix has announced that the new "anthology" season of Arrested Development will arrive — all 15 episodes at once — on May 26. The show, which ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, will bring back its entire cast, including Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Cera, David Cross, and many, many more.

May 26 is a Sunday, so this means that some people will stay up very late on Saturday night and start watching at 12:01 a.m.

Viewer Discretion: Deciding When To Look Away

Linda Holmes — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:17:00 +0000

I was out of the house, as it happens, for most of the first half of yesterday's Louisville-Duke game, and when I got home and looked at Twitter, before I turned on the TV, there was a huge stack of stuff to read, and the first thing that caught my attention about the game was this.

That's Dan Fienberg of Hitfix, tweeting about the grisly broken leg suffered by Louis

Here We Go Again: Leno, Fallon, And Why The Late-Night Wars Are So Boring

Linda Holmes — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:48:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzVdv6V5Vs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXnh4tYpA-U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-URl9F17Y

Are Romantic Comedies Dead?

Linda Holmes — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:35:54 +0000

The March issue of The Atlantic features an essay from Christopher Orr called "Why Are Romantic Comedies So Bad?"* In it, Orr asserts that romantic comedies have been "lackluster for decades." Decades.