Margaret Colin

7 p.m., WGN-Ch. 9 Blair (Leighton Meester) decides to sabotage her mother Eleanor's (guest star Margaret Colin) fashion show when she learns that she has given Serena (Blake Lively) and her new socialite friend front-row seats. Dan (Penn Badgley)...

Josh Schwartz, executive producer of the CW's "Gossip Girl" (7 p.m. Monday, WGN-Ch. 9),has specific goals for the show this season. You wouldn't think the soap, which follows the lives of rich teenagers in New York City, would require major surgery;...

(D) That underrated actor Ewan McGregor recently did something even Liam Neeson couldn't do: Triumph in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. But when it comes to slick New York City genre movies, he's a jinx. He helped sink the witless Manhattan sex farce...

While Hollywood suffered through a three-month-long writers' strike that threatened to scuttle many an awardsfest, last fall's labor strife on Broadway lasted only 18 days before the stagehands and the producers agreed to a deal. Thus, the season was...

Three women struggle over the same man in "Triptych," a play by the well- known Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The wife, the mistress and the teenage daughter of a celebrated novelist sharpen their claws, defend their territory and reveal their tattered...

(R) Girl with a poetic bent and a bad home life finds solace with an understanding male teacher, who has problems of his own. Intimate, honest, if occasionally contrived. With Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn, Regan Arnold, Margaret Colin. Written and...

Sheila and Brian have so much fun together that, honestly, we almost forget that the source of their comic material is their grossly retarded 10-year-old daughter, who sits - or, more accurately, is propped into a sitting position - in her dead end of a...

It's election time, which for first daughters and their opponents means it's time to get trotted out by mom and dad and get taken down by the press. Obligingly, the incumbents giggled and told incoherent stories at their dad's convention, and one of their...

It can happen late in a career, or early, or several times, but what all performers hope for is that defining role, a part that makes full use of all they have to give at a particular moment in time. For Agnes Bruckner, not yet 18, "Blue Car" is that kind...

3 stars (out of 4) Coming-of-age dramas are stock material in the indie film world, but sometimes a performance and filmmaker just hit the mark. In Karen Moncrieff's debut feature, "Blue Car," Agnes Bruckner delivers an indelible portrait of a girl on...

Fear and desire are constant, palpable presences in Adrian Lyne's "Unfaithful," a mesmerizing drama of adultery based on Claude Chabrol's 1969 French thriller, "La Femme Infidele." Lyne has taken Chabrol's movie, one of the most celebrated art-house...

1 ½ stars (out of 4) In the bright, thin political romantic comedy "First Daughter," star Katie Holmes plays Samantha Mackenzie, the daughter of fictitious U.S. President John Mackenzie-a smooth Bill Clintonesque charmer (though apparently a Republican)...