Brendan Bernhard

Photo by Anthony Mandler/FOX The last time I went to a casino I thought I’d accidentally wandered into a convention of unrepentant drunks and three-packs-a-day smokers. Although nearly everyone was wrestling with one-armed bandits or hovering over roulette wheels, gambling appeared to be an almost incidental activity. The real attraction......

I caught an episode of Kid Notorious, the cartoon on Comedy Central (Tuesday, 10:30 p.m.) about the life and loves of producer and Hollywood legend Robert Evans, and I must say I was pretty disappointed. There were some funny bits, and the visual aspects were beautifully done, but the level......

Miss Match, the airy romantic comedy on NBC (Fridays, 9 p.m.) produced by Sex and the City’s Darren Star, is one of those shows that I watch, enjoy, keep watching, continue to enjoy, but can’t think of much to say about, which may be why I haven’t discussed it before......

In 1983, when I worked in the library at Columbia University, I checked a book out to Edward Said, the Palestinian-American author of Orientalism who died this past September. I didn’t know much about Said at the time, but I retain an impression of a severe and slightly arrogant presence......

Someone once said that smoking a cigarette is as near as you can get to doing nothing while technically doing something. If so, watching Two and a Half Men, the new sitcom on CBS, must come a close second. The good news is that it’s not habit-forming, it won’t kill......

Nothing you see on television this week will provoke as many contradictory thoughts and emotions as Terror in Moscow (HBO, Thursday). A British-made documentary on the hijacking of a Russian theater by Chechen rebels, this 54-minute film brings you about as close to terrorism as you can get without being......