Topic: Curb Your Enthusiasm

The 20 best TV sitcoms of all time – readers' choice

What did Monitor readers choose as the best sitcom in the history of television?

Editor's Blog To invest or not to invest? The eternal question

Investing is an individual decision. How you view the stock market depends on where you are in your earnings cycle and what your past experience has been. The only thing the market may be telling everyone right now is that the bad old days of the last decade appear to be over.

Michael J. Fox talks about his new TV series (+video)

Michael J. Fox will return to full-time work in a comedy TV series. Michael J. Fox will play a news anchor diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Christopher Dorner: Hollywood anti-hero casts self in real-life drama (+video)

Christopher Dorner remains a fugitive, a three-time murder suspect. But to some Christopher Dorner's manifesto raises real issues: He accused the L.A. police of racism and other abuses, and weighed in on his favorite movies and celebrities. Is that why actor Charlie Sheen reached out to Dorner?

'American Horror Story,' 'Lincoln' earn Producers Guild nominations

'American Horror Story,' 'Django Unchained,' and others made the cut for the nominations distributed by the Producers Guild of America.

Russell Means: Native American activist and Hollywood actor

Russell Means was one of the leaders of the Native American armed occupation of the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee, a 71-day siege in 1973. Russell Means also starred in "The Last of the Mohicans" and was guest star in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Culture Cafe Michael J. Fox could return full-time to TV

Michael J. Fox is said to be working on a show for Fox that would be based on his own life.

Culture Cafe Emmy nominations: 'Mad Men,' 'American Horror Story' come out ahead (+video)

The two drama series each earned 17 nods as Emmy nominations were announced Thursday morning.

Charles Napier remembered for facial expressions in tough guy roles

Charles Napier was a veteran character actor in movies and television. A former basketball player and Army veteran, Charles Napier was a Kentucky native.
10/07/2011 12:41 pm

Existing home sales dip, but prices vary wildly. Top 5 most, least expensive cities.

Existing home sales dipped below an annual rate of 5 million in May. Not counting condos and coops, single-family home sales stand at 4.2 million a year, which, if it held for all of 2011, would be lower than the worst of the slump in 2008. But home prices vary dramatically, depending upon where you live in the United States: the average listing for a typical four-bedroom, two bathroom house in the most expensive real-estate market is more than 40 times the average listing in the least expensive city, according to a recent survey of more than 2,300 markets by Coldwell Banker Real Estate. Here are the Top 5 most and least expensive cities. Is yours on the list?
06/21/2011 03:04 pm

In Pictures Dr. Seuss birthday

Emmy nods: Conan O'Brien gets his day as TV landscape evolves

Emmy Award nominations released Thursday tapped Conan O'Brien's short-lived stint on NBC's Tonight Show, as well as a handful of shows from non-broadcast networks.
07/08/2010 05:18 pm

Editor's Blog Hello, 2010. Goodbye, Decade of Cringe

Who could have predicted the twists and turns of the past decade -- from hanging chads to 9/11, the bubble economy to Bernie Madoff? It is tempting to believe anything will be better than the Decade of Cringe. But the next 10 years will dismay and delight as well.
12/27/2009 01:03 pm

Review: 'Whatever Works'

Woody Allen returns to familiar territory with a misanthropic New York physicist played by Larry David.
06/19/2009 01:00 am