Robert Lloyd

Final Credits

EVIDENCE OF BLOODThe Movie ChannelSaturday, March 28,9 p.m.HOLLYWOODISM:Jews, Movies and the American DreamA&ESunday, March 22, 10 p.m. Here in the killing season between the February sweeps and the summer vacation, they knock 'em down faster than I can write about them. The most spectacular recent axing (indeed, one of the......

Moby Dick (the Next Generation)

USA Network Part 1: Sunday, March 15, 8 p.m. Part 2: Monday, March 16, 8 p.m. THE McCOURTS OF LIMERICK Cinemax Tuesday, March 17, 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 a.m. The high-concept casting of Starship Enterprise skipper Patrick Stewart as Ahab in the USA Network's new two-part Moby Dick......
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Portrait of the Critic As a Cool Guy

Pity the critic, if you will, if you can, who must spend his days thinking long and hard on other people's real work. Unlike the artist's celebrated life of garrets and galas, there is nothing glamorous or romantic about his sublunary vocation: Hollywood has yet to produce a film in......

Survival, Revivalle

ABC's Prey is a "Darwinian" thriller about a recently evolved race of not-quite-humans who, because "two species cannot occupy the same evolutionary space," are constrained by natural law - it's nothing personal - to kill all Homo sapiens in order to survive. (In which business they proceed - classical alien......

Globular

There are undoubtedly, even in this tinselly town, people who live unimpressed by celebrity. But not so many that it, you know, matters. The Spice Girls still rule the world, and you can't assume an attitude superior enough to change that. People, Vanity Fair, The National Enquirer all subsist on......