Robert Lloyd

In that several rather than a few words are required to describe it, ABC's Cupid -- in which Jeremy Piven stars either as the actual Roman god, mortalized and exiled to Chicago until he engineers 100 love connections without his customary magic, or as a nutjob who believes this to......

Photo by Lorey SebastianThe words true story establish immediate credit in the human mind. Why this should be so when all the best stories are made up, I cannot say. But people seem to love seeing a real life re-created, and television loves to give the people what the people......

Regarding Lifetime's Tuesday-night comedy block of Oh Baby and Maggie, let me say first of all how nice it is that someone's running original sitcoms after 10 p.m.; whichever programming "geniuses" decreed that prime time was best wound down with police or hospital dramas or what the euphemizing machines translate......

Eat the Document, an extremely rare public view at the Museum of Television and Radio through November 13, is Bob Dylan's whimsically difficult, hourlong cut (with Howard Alk) of footage shot by Don't Look Back director D.A. Pennebaker during the singer's famously confrontational 1966 tour of Europe. Not only is......

Life magazine, the official gazette of our age, has just published, in a handsome, perfect-bound special edition you're sure to treasure for weeks to come, its authoritative estimation of the 100 most important events of the last 1,000 years. The invention of television comes in at number 14, right between......

The Farmer's Wife, which opens this season's Frontline on PBS, is a thousand-acre documentary that neither details nor examines but rather gathers, like eggs - some cracked, some rotten, some chocolate, some golden - scenes from the difficult life of a young Nebraska farm couple, Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter. It......

Citizens of L.A.! Weekly readers! You who rail at traffic, who curse the barista too slow with the morning latte, who claim to have no spare change when you simply wish to keep it, who fret over hairlines and vacuum the fat from your thighs, who covet your neighbor's donkey,......

EVERYTHING THAT RISES TNT Premieres Sunday, July 12, 8 p.m. MY OWN COUNTRY Showtime Premieres Sunday, July 12, 9 p.m. BARBIE NATION PBS Tuesday, July 14, 10 p.m. Dennis Quaid, the noted motion-picture actor, turns director this week with the Turner-produced TV movie Everything That Rises, in which he also......