Your town. Your news. Your take.

Local News: Los Angeles, CA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

 
Advertisment

Murphy Brown News

News on Murphy Brown continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

Tuesday Sep 23 | The Huffington Post

Earl Pomerantz: Emmy's -- The Oddest Award of All

Of all the awards - and there certainly are a lot of them - the Emmys are by far the strangest.

Comment?

Related Topix: John Larroquette, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin, Comedy, Night Court, Entertainment, Television, Drama

Sun Sep 21, 2008

The Paramus Post

Talented Cast of Woeful Remake is Made Small by Their Limited Roles

Women, schmimmen. That's my capsule review of "The Women," a veritable estrogen tsunami that will have most men rushing to the next screening of "Death Race" for testosterone relief.

Comment?

Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Fri Sep 19, 2008

Hartford Courant

Remake Of 'The Women' Steeped In Irony

To Diane English, life is all about irony these days. It's ironic that her long-planned remake of the 1939 classic "The Women" should finally come out after the success of " Sex and the City " in movie ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Comedy Movies, The Women, Movies

Wed Sep 17, 2008

Playbill

Tony Nominee Kimbrough Will Join Hyde Pierce in Broadway's Accent on Youth

Charles Kimbrough, a Tony nominee for his work in the original company of Company and an Emmy nominee for his performance in TV's "Murphy Brown," will join the previously announced David Hyde Pierce in the ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Charles Kimbrough, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Emmy Awards

Tue Sep 16, 2008

Movies

Movie review: Girls gone mild in 'The Women'

W hat do women want? Being heard would be a nice start, so it's easy to see why "The Women," a bitchy comic melodrama that debuted on Broadway in 1936, has been brought to the screen twice.

Comment?

Related Topix: Candice Bergen, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Comedy Movies, The Women, Drama, Movies

Sun Sep 14, 2008

National Post

The Women: Money can't buy love, but friends? No problem

Film review: The Women It's almost impossible to watch The Women without thinking of Sex and the City.

Comment?

Related Topix: Sarah Jessica Parker, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Sex and the City, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Sat Sep 13, 2008

Chicagosuburbannews.com

Director of 'The Women' fought for film for 14 years

Diane English could have stepped out of her own movie, "The Women," so chic and pretty is she in a chocolate, figure-hugging dress, brown stiletto heels, her glossy blond hair styled in a flattering bob, her ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Candice Bergen, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Comedy Movies, The Women

The New York Times

Catfights and Class Struggles

"What is this, some 1930s movie?" asks a character in "The Women." If only! Of course, the line pays winking homage to a specific '30s movie, directed by George Cukor and based on a notorious play by Clare ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Movies

Fri Sep 12, 2008

Canada.com

Review: The Women

A remake of the 1939 classic, this time with Meg Ryan as a betrayed woman, Annette Bening as her best friend and Eva Mendes as the slinky mistress.

Comment?

Related Topix: Candice Bergen, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Rosalind Russell, Drama, Comedy Movies, The Women

Montreal Gazette

Female friendship and the foibles of gender, sex and age

There are no men in Diane English's ultimately enjoyable dramatic comedy The Women.

Comment?

Related Topix: Candice Bergen, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Retail, Saks, Drama, Comedy Movies, The Women

Thu Sep 11, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune

Working with 'Women' proves a pleasure for Leachman

Veteran actress Cloris Leachman has a thing about women directors -- she doesn't like working with them.

Comment?

Related Topix: Cloris Leachman, Drama, The Last Picture Show, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Comedy, Comedy Movies, The Women

The Post Chronicle

Hollywood Adds Its Clout To The Bash Sarah Juggernaut

To paraphrase Cal Thomas; "What is it about Sarah Palin that has gotten Hollywood's knickers in a twist?" Annette Benning believes that the selection of Sarah Palin represents "bizarre" politics.

Comment?

Related Topix: Candice Bergen, US Politics, US News, Joe Biden, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election

Wed Sep 10, 2008

The Village Voice

Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick

"What do you think this is?" cries a lady who lunches in Diane English's remake of George Cukor's The Women .

Comment?

Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Manhattan, Comedy Movies, Drama, Adventure, The Women, Movies

Tue Sep 09, 2008

The Orlando Sentinel

Movie Review: The Women - 3 stars out of 5

The Women is Sex and the City without the sex, without the bitchy edge. That's not to say it isn't the chickier of the two "chick pictures," with better actors trying their hand at the same sitcom-polished sort ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Comedy Movies, The Women, Candice Bergen, Movies

Sun Sep 07, 2008

NBC 15 Online

'The Women''s Star-Studded Premiere! - ET

Entertainment Tonight Headlines 'The Women''s Star-Studded Premiere! ET was at the red carpet of the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Women' -- starring a who's who of A-Listers! Meg Ryan , Jada Pinkett Smith , ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Comedy Movies, The Women, Drama, Candice Bergen, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Fri Sep 05, 2008

Washington Examiner

Murphy, Juno, Jamie Lynn and Bristol

Dan Quayle mentioned the Candice Bergen sitcom Murphy Brown in a speech that stunned the nation for its outrageous attack on a popular, but fictional, television character who decided to become a single mom.

Comment?

Related Topix: Motherhood, Family, Candice Bergen, Dan Quayle, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

New York City's Hometown Newspaper - ...

Teen pregnancy wasn't so hip during 1992 campaign

Single moms and vice presidents have come a long way with Republicans since 1992: Just ask Murphy Brown and Dan Quayle .

Comment?

Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Sun Aug 24, 2008

Hollywood.com

Joe Regalbuto

American character actor with thinning hair and a pained expression on his face, known primarily for his work on TV, Regalbuto made his TV debut as an alien intent on killing the title characters on "Mork and ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Joe Regalbuto, Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean, Drama, Martin Short, Tim Conway, Entertainment, Street Hawk, Television, Comedy

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Glodderby

Continue reading QUIZ: Who is Emmy's biggest undefeated champ?

Which of the stars below won five Emmys and suffered no losses? To see the answer, CLICK HERE! CORRECT ANSWER: Don Knotts.

Comment?

Related Topix: Don Knotts, Candice Bergen, Boston Legal, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Mon Jun 30, 2008

XtraMSN Real Estate

TNT to remake Brit cop show "Cracker"

American viewers might get another, perhaps saltier, bite of the '90s Brit hit "Cracker" thanks to a second attempt at turning the quirky cop show into a series stateside.

Comment?

Related Topix: Robbie Coltrane, Robert Pastorelli, Crime Movies, Cracker, Drama, Entertainment, Television, Comedy

↑ Back to top

More Murphy Brown News

Archives

Read more articles in the Murphy Brown News Archives.

For up to the minute news, check out the Murphy Brown News Wire.

Want to add Murphy Brown News headlines to your web site? Get the widget here.

RSS icon mobile icon

Murphy Brown Photos

Murphy Brown News Editors

RoboBlogger

I edit this news page on Topix when no humans are available to help.

People just like you make Murphy Brown News on Topix better every day. If you're interested in becoming an editor, apply today!

Edits History | Editor Blog

Murphy Brown Poll

created by: jsu | Oct 4, 2007

Click on an option to vote

4,864

votes

  • The Sopranos
  • 24
  • Lost
  • The Wire
  • Law & Order
  • ER
  • NYPD Blue
  • The Practice
  • West Wing
  • Other (leave a comment!)

Topix Extras