Six Feet Under (tv program)

'Dexter' star opts for a home with killer views in Los Feliz

2013-06-07 19:27:00

Michael C. Hall of "Dexter" fame has bought a restored home in Los Feliz for $3.825 million. The updated 1920s Spanish Colonial and guesthouse have killer views of the surrounding hillsides and cityscape. Features include archways, beam ceilings,...

'The Sopranos' tops WGA's top 101 TV shows of all time

2013-06-03 05:00:00

They say that television is a writer's medium, so it makes sense that the Writers Guild of America would have its own list of the 101 greatest TV shows of all time. At the top of the list is "The Sopranos," HBO's multiple award-winning hit series that...

Fox's new drama trailers: 'Almost Human,' 'Sleepy Hollow,' 'Rake'

2013-05-13 16:23:00

Fox released three trailers to preview its new drama series for 2013-14. They are "Almost Human," "Sleepy Hollow" and "Rake." In an attempt to restore ratings that fell by 20% last season, the network announced shows that were heavy on established...

'American Idol' host Ryan Seacrest picks a buyer

2012-09-09 00:00:00

Although it took almost two seasons of "American Idol" for Ryan Seacrest to select a buyer, the singing competition show host has sold his gated Hollywood Hills West estate for $11 million. He bought the property from two-time Academy Award-winning...

Daum: Confessions of a TV couch potato

2012-07-19 00:00:00

I recently attended a lecture by a distinguished man of letters. A poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic, this man also edits journals, directs literary festivals, collaborates on documentary projects, teaches full time at a university and is...

Actor Michael C. Hall lists Hollywood Hills home at $1.995 million

2012-06-17 00:00:00

Michael C. Hall of "Dexter" fame has listed his house in the Hollywood Hills at $1.995 million. Built in 1933 as a Spanish-style home with a red tile roof, the house was modernized by mid-century architect Hal Levitt, who used it as his personal...

'Dexter' stars Michael C. Hall and wife Jennifer Carpenter look to make a killing

2009-10-10 00:00:00

Actress Jennifer Carpenter,who stars on Showtime's murder-centric "Dexter" with her husband, Michael C. Hall, has listed her Hollywood Hills bachelorette pad for $695,000. The 1937 California bungalow, with two bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms, was built...

Authors Gary Calamar and Phil Gallo relive 'Record Store Days'

2010-04-08 00:00:00

Picture a time when new technologies are threatening the livelihood of performing musicians. Music business titans are scrambling to adapt to the decentralization of distribution. Skeptics say it was all better back when music was an intimate...

Martin Sheen comes full circle with 'The Subject Was Roses'

2010-02-14 00:00:00

A man many Americans still think of longingly as President Josiah Bartlet is waiting for a light to change at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Hughes Avenue in Culver City. He is on foot and in conversation with a companion, on his way to...

HBO snares Sloane Crosley's 'Cake'

2008-07-02 14:42:16

July 3, 2008 The deal HBO options Sloane Crosley's bestselling "I Was Told There'd Be Cake," a collection of wry, mordantly funny essays about a twentysomething New Yorker struggling to get by in Manhattan and the bizarre dilemmas she encounters. The...

From supporting actor to star, Richard Jenkins steps up in 'The Visitor'

2008-04-06 00:00:00

THERE is no such thing as a Richard Jenkins movie, though he's been in more than 70 of them. Even in his best-known role -- as the mortuary paterfamilias, Nathaniel Fisher, on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" -- Jenkins was dead, haunting the characters...

Crying and Digging

2005-02-06 00:00:00

For centuries in America, we tended to our dead. People died at home, and relatives prepared the body, laid it out in the parlor and sat by as callers paid final respects. The body was buried in the family cemetery, if there was one, or on the back 40;...

Growing up in a funeral home isn't the best foundation for normalcy. Episodes of the HBO series start with a death and often end with a burial, sometimes both literally and emotionally.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

were. But it performed solidly, and critics were gaga for David Milch's hyper-literate Western, starring television's most demonically poetic pimp Al Swearengen.

2010-01-08 14:12:19