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Today is Sunday, July 5, the 186th day of 2009. There are 179 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: In 1865, William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London. On this date: In 1811, Venezuela became the first South American country to...Tags: Robbie Robertson, Music Industry, Rhythm and Blues, RZA, Christianity
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Girls gone wild
Somewhere, Jane Austen is aghast. Queen Victoria is about to blow a gasket. And your sweet little great-grandmother, the one apt to blush when the word "corset" came up in mixed company, is positively apoplectic. These doyens of daintiness and decorum...Tags: Movies, Jane Austen, Grey's Anatomy (tv program), Holly Hunter, Hillary Clinton
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Edie Falco talks to Kevin Burkhardt while Mets do stuff
WatchdogSure, technically I should complain about SNY's Kevin Burkhardt interviewing Edie Falco in the stands about some new nurse show she's doing for "Showtime" while important things were going on in the third inning of Wednesday night's Mets game, but......Tags: New York Mets, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Tribeca Film Festival Mini-Review No. 3
WatchdogThe showcase event of the Tribeca/ESPN Film Festival is Spike Lee's "Kobe Doin' Work." Three dozen or so cameras shot a miked-for-sound Kobe Bryant during a mid-April game against the Spurs last season, then Bryant sat with Lee and narrated......Tags: Movies, Festive Event, TriBeCa Film Festival, New York Giants, Cheryl Hines
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Edie Falco as 'Nurse Jackie'
![Jackie Peyton (Falco) is an ER nurse in a New York hospital who has back problems, and snorts OxyContin and other stuff for relief. She remains competent on the job - and seems to suggest her addiction has saved her from the unemployment line. Jackie's a dichotomy: cynical and profane but also loving and idealistic. A grade school nun told her that the people with "the greatest capacity for good [have] the greatest capacity for evil." A description, perhaps, of our heroine? She berates a glib doctor, Dr. Fitch "Coop" Cooper (Peter Facinelli) who misdiagnosed a bike messenger's fatal injuries. But she's also got a boyfriend at the hospital, Eddie (Paul Schulze, Father Phil from "The Sopranos"), who supplies her with drugs and sex.](http://www.newsday.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-06/47338934-07125637.jpg)
verne.gay@newsday.comJackie Peyton (Falco) is an ER nurse in a New York hospital who has back problems, and snorts OxyContin and other stuff for relief. She remains competent on the job - and seems to suggest her addiction has saved her from the unemployment line. Jackie's...Tags: New York, Weeds (tv program), The Big Bang Theory (tv program), ER (tv program), Patty Duke
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'HawthoRNe' is this summer's more conventional nurse
It's our summer of nurses. Showtime introduced Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie last week (catch her at 10:30 p.m. Mondays). TNT offers Jada Pinkett Smith as HawthoRNe at 9 tonight. Television critic Hal Boedeker assesses both series. Which nurse has it...Tags: New York, Jada Pinkett Smith, Medical Staff, Men in Trees (tv program)
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Edie Falco give series TV anoher shot in Showtime's 'Nurse Jackie'
TV/Radio writerEdie Falco has moved only over the Hudson geographically for her new role as Nurse Jackie. In most other ways, her follow-up character to Carmela Soprano is in a different universe. Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at a Manhattan hospital, is...Tags: New York, Values, Family, Ethics, Medical Staff
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TV Eye: 'Nurse Jackie' Extends Edie Falco's Stellar Run
Anyone who has seen her in anything but "The Sopranos" knows that Edie Falco is too smart and talented to be pigeon-holed into one role, even one as great as Carmela. Her full range of skills is more evident in the complex, contradictory, angel of...Tags: Classical Music, Mary-Louise Parker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stockard Channing, Defense
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Edie Falco takes a shot at dramedy in 'Nurse Jackie'
The premise of "Nurse Jackie," an original series on Showtime that premieres Monday, sounds inherently dark: Edie Falco plays a pill-popping emergency room nurse wearily combating the dysfunction of a chaotic big-city hospital.
But there was little...Tags: Television, Grey's Anatomy (tv program), Celebrity, Ethics, The Tudors (tv program)
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'The Closer'
Sunday, 8 p.m. 'Tony Awards' Billy's the boy to beat at the 63rd annual ceremony. The musical "Billy Elliot" is up for 15 trophies, tying 2001's "The Producers" for the record. CBS 9, 13, 16 Monday, 10:30 p.m. 'Nurse Jackie' Carmela has jumped...Tags: Movies, New York, The Closer (tv program), Lincoln Center, Lee Pace
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'Billy Elliot' dances to the top of Broadway
Tribune critic"Billy Elliot," the inspirational movie-turned-musical about a working-class Yorkshire kid who dances away from strife and poverty, dominated the 63rd annual Tony Awards, winning 10 Tony Awards, including the coveted best musical Tony. "You opened...Tags: Movies, Music Theater, New York, James Gandolfini, Music Industry
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Reviews: 'Nurse Jackie' and 'Weeds'
Television Critic“Nurse Jackie,” the much-buzzed-about half-hour medical comedy starring Edie Falco, premieres tonight, following, in what has become a Showtime launch tradition, the season premiere of the perennially great “Weeds.” Pot mom meet...Tags: Television, Anne Boleyn, Mary-Louise Parker, FBI, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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