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Friends of God: A Road Trip With Alexandra Pelosi
The estimated 50 to 80 million evangelical Christians living in America today have become a formidable force in our culture and democracy. But the evangelical movement is a big tent. To try and get a better understanding of the range and diversity of this community, intrepid filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi hit the road to meet some evangelicals and learn about what their influence may mean for the future of the country. Premieres Thursday, January 25
theyre not saying boo, theyre saying boourns.
bush interview on 60 minutes now.
i noticed via the futon critic that dirt was premiering tonight on fx. ive seen stared at a million ads featuring some old peter gabriel tune which i can nearly conjure but cant name. i thought it would be some funny cosmic joke if the impressionistic ads kept running but the show never actually aired (this way it can never be panned. canny career move) and that wed forever be pondering the hardening lines of courtney cox emaciating skull.
this time we've gone too far
added televisionary and the futon critic to the sidebar links.
barrett jackson auto auction on speed chnl now
Punk: Attitude documentary on IFC at 5:05pm. Has a lot of good clips and a range survivors commenting, even if it does totally ignore the Midwest.
blog wars tonight at 7 on sundance.
Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back on AMC at 11:45am.
Since getting cable I’ve been running into Murphy in B Westerns and I found him to be an odd character. He’s the strong silent type with a long fuse, turning deadly when pushed to it; a classic American hero type, but he’s also a baby-faced naïf, which complicates the image. Turns out he’s an early reality star: the most-decorated soldier of WWII basically playing himself in Hollywood, and literally in To Hell and Back, his autobiography.
anybody catch colbert last night? it was notable as the last show of the year but also because it had a green screen guitar solo challenge with the guitarist from the decembrists and colbert. colbert after donning the famed five necked guitar from cheap trick feigns injury only to be replaced by peter frampton and his talk box. the challenge was anti-climatic but the show closed with the four guitarists (apples in stereo lead singer opened the show with a song and the dude from cheap trick who wrote the colbert themesong joined in) playing the themesong with colbert hooked up to the talkbox. that was the best moment. the morley safer, eliot spitzer and henry kissenger cameos created a surreal line-up. more bizarre than entertaining really.