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The Closer

Thursday Morning Notebook

September 4, 2008

Will have a classic "90210" flashback a little later today.
Song stuck in my head this morning:

Band elbowing its way into my head:

Finally got around to Monday's "The Closer" yesterday afternoon/evening. Pretty good. Liked the Fritz-Brenda moment at the end, I always like it when Brenda's parents (Barry Corbin! Frances Sternagen!) are around, and loved the [...]

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"The Closer" Season Finale

September 10, 2007

Spoilers and thoughts, after the jump…

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"The Closer," "Californication"

August 21, 2007

Since I've made clear my admiration for Barry Corbin and Frances Sternhagen as Brenda's parents on "The Closer," I'll try not to belabor the point here. …

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Weekend Notebooks, Part 1 & 2

August 18, 2007

My review of "High School Musical 2" is here. My review of "Superbad" is here.
After the jump, Barry Corbin, and the perils of magazine deadlines … and a new part 2, with "Damages," "Mad Men," "Rescue Me" (so beware of spoilers if you haven't caught up)…

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More "Closer"

August 1, 2007

TNT has renewed the series for a fourth season. Announcement after the jump …

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Trolling Through This Week's Cable Dramas

August 1, 2007

"Saving Grace," "The Closer," "Damages" and tonight's "Rescue Me," after the jump …

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A Wedding and Three TV Shows

July 8, 2007

Yesterday I went to the wedding of the Black Keys' Pat Carney and Denise Grollmus. You can find a few notes, as well as photos, here.
The evening was devoted to TV viewing in what turned into a tough-women marathon: Monday's new episode of "The Closer," the premiere of the new series "Damages" (starting July [...]

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"Closer" News

June 7, 2007

During a break from compiling Paris Hilton news, I found this in the e-mail basket:
Emmy®-nominated actress Frances Sternhagen (Sex and the City) will return this season to TNT’s THE CLOSER as Brenda’s slightly overbearing mother, Willie Ray Johnson. And now we’ll meet Brenda’s dad, the tough, but charming Clay Johnson, played by Emmy-nominated actor [...]

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More "Closer" on DVD

February 21, 2007

Here's the official word: Cable television’s critically acclaimed series The Closer returns to DVD when Warner Home Video (WHV) releases The Closer: The Complete Second Season on May 29, 2007. The four disc collection features all 14 episodes from the series’ second season, along with bonus material, and will retail for $39.98 SRP. …
In [...]

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The Perils of Promos

August 28, 2006

So there we were, the bride and I, watching "The Closer" and talking here and there about what we thought had happened. Well, I was talking, anyway. I do that. Then, late in the show, as the pieces were falling together, TNT ran a promo that included a big scene from the episode we were [...]

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Does "Closer" Brenda Need a Foil?

August 11, 2006

I finally caught up with Monday's episode of "The Closer" and for the most part liked it, at least until it got to that cliched justice-in-the-parking-deck moment. I felt as if the show wanted things both ways — to show that the system sometimes lets bad guys get away, but also to satisfy the audience [...]

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More "Closer"

June 30, 2006

From today's e-mail:
TNT’s blockbuster original series THE CLOSER – which ranks as ad-supported cable’s top original scripted series of the year and which kicked off its second season with record-breaking numbers – has been renewed for a third 15-episode season, according to an announcement today by Steve Koonin, executive vice president and chief operating officer [...]

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For Fans of "The Closer"

February 2, 2006

This arrived from TNT today:
Cable's top sensation is heading before cameras once again on Feb. 27, when TNT's THE CLOSER begins production on its second dramatically charged season.  In just its first year on the air, the series earned star Kyra Sedgwick (Something To Talk About, Loverboy, TNT's Door toDoor) both Golden Globe and Screen [...]

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Comment Replies

July 20, 2005

I'm still a little new at this blog system, and am not quite sure how to reply to comments. So I'm going to do it here.
On the Al Gore posting, about trying to get a question in at a Gore press conference, a reader asked: "So what were the questions (and answers)? "
My first question [...]

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Garcetti Bites

July 17, 2005

Former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti seems happy to be out of his old line of work. He's been busy as a photographer, declines comment on current legal cases and is a consultant to the drama "The Closer."
But because he was such a high-profile law enforcer, he stil gets asked what he thinks of [...]

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A Word About "The Closer"

July 17, 2005

Actors take parts for a variety of reasons. If you ask them, more often than not they'll say they've been attracted by the script, but there's more to it than that.
Actor-writer-director-producer-charades-player Bob Balaban said — not entirely joking — that he likes to work with people whose home phone numbers he has; that way, he [...]

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