Girls (tv program)

'Girls' creator Lena Dunham unamused by porn parody

2013-05-24 16:41:00

"Girls," HBO's critically acclaimed and controversial comedy series about the lives of twentysomethings in Brooklyn, tackles a number of issues with brutal frankness and sometimes uncomfortable realism. Sex is one of those issues, and the show has...

'American Horror Story,' 'Big Bang Theory' top Critics' Choice bids

2013-05-22 09:05:00

The critics have spoken: horror, geeks and HBO make for some good TV. The nominations for the third annual Critics' Choice Television Awards were announced Wednesday morning by the Broadcast Television Journalists Assn. -- and FX's "American Horror...

The Gold Standard: It's time for Emmy to surprise us

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Backstage at the Emmys last year, reporters were squirming — and not just because of the ill-fitting rental tuxes and too-tight gowns. As "Modern Family" rolled to its third straight Emmy win for comedy series (after earlier pulling in prizes for...

Women front 'Nashville' band

2013-05-11 07:00:00

Callie Khouri's office is laden with secrets. An emerald-green silk chaise, a Craftsman-style lamp and scattered family heirlooms lend Southern-belle intrigue to the "Nashville" creator's Santa Monica work space. On a shelf rests a silver urn with the...

Review: HBO's 'Family Tree' rooted in warm, goofy eccentricity

2013-05-11 05:00:00

Christopher Guest, the director of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO. The eight-episode "Family Tree," which premieres Sunday, is his first work in seven years, and like his films it is sweet and funny and not a little...

Christina Aguilera is slim and sleek at Time 100 gala

2013-04-24 16:12:00

Christina Aguilera was slim and sleek at the Time 100 gala Tuesday for the magazine's celebration of its 100 most influential people. Aguilera, 32, and formerly a mentor on the "The Voice," wore a black Victoria Beckham cutout gown with Christian...

Christina and Mindy among Time's '100 Most Influential'? Really?

2013-04-18 13:01:00

Perhaps the editors of Time magazine need a refresher on the definition of� "influential." Some of their choices from the TV arena for the just-released "100 Most Influential People In The World" are clear and spot on. Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad,"...

Time 100: Jay-Z, JLaw, Duchess Kate among the most influential

2013-04-18 14:26:00

Time magazine has released its 10th annual list of the Time 100 most influential people of the year, and not surprisingly, a number of celebrities have been bestowed the honor. The magazine doesn't rank its picks but divvies up the 100 into five...

On TV, a new breed of Modern Woman

2013-04-20 06:30:00

A ruthlessly self-aware political wife reconsidering her choices. A sensual socialite facing down an oppressive age with informed good humor. A group of young women so busy defying social expectations they've forgotten to have any of their own. A...

TV picks: 'Community,' 'Schumer,' 'Maron,' Sagal

2013-05-02 12:49:00

"Community" (NBC, Thursday). The low-rated and much-beloved comedy about a study group at a community college that is not about a study group at a community college so much as it is a comedy about a comedy about a study group at a community college that...

Review: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society taps into Brooklyn

2013-04-29 19:05:00

What does Brooklyn sound like? While the fashionably clad, underemployed youth of Lena Dunham's "Girls" may spring to mind given the New York City borough's pop cultural footprint, bandleader Darcy James Argue paints a broader picture of a time and...

Colleges as country clubs

2013-04-21 00:00:00

My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring making that upper-middle-class pilgrimage known as "the college tour." But as we were led across sweeping lawns by tour guides walking backward, I found myself thinking less about...

Lena Dunham stars in the HBO series "Girls."

2013-05-24 16:21:47

Lena Dunham and her cohorts on HBO's "Girls" often discuss their plight of being a twentysomething at New York's Cafe Grumpy. Alex Karpovsky's character works there as a jilted-but-lovable barista, often commenting on the patrons. The cafe, itself, sits snugly in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood.

2013-03-22 00:31:42

@LenaDunham Director-writer, "Girls," "Tiny Furniture" Why follow? Like her HBO comedy "Girls," her Twitter feed is funny, honest, revealing and unpredictable. It's also wonderful to witness how Dunham handles her critics without ever stooping to their level of disrespect. Sample tweet "Approx.

2013-03-19 00:00:00