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Glenn Garvin: TV Coverage
A lifelong television nut who is rumored to be the real father of Rachel's baby on Friends, Glenn Garvin took over the critic's job in 2002 after 19 years covering Latin America -- the last five of them as The Herald's bureau chief in Managua. A 1975 graduate of Stanford University, Garvin is the author of two books on Latin America and the only living person who actually saw an episode of My Mother, The Car. You can e-mail him at ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com.
Check out Glenn Garvin's blog, Changing Channels.

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  • Penn & Teller (Season 3)

    TELEVISION REVIEW

    They've got that global warming thing down cold

    Penn & Teller's Bull----! 10-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Showtime I've seen lots of things on Penn & Teller's Bull----!, television's only investigative-journalism program run by comic magicians: Hidden-camera pranks where yuppie fools blather on about designer water that actually came from a garden hose. New Age health nuts allowing mollusks to crawl around on their faces to soak up the health benefits of slug slime. Naked people floating around in a zero-gravity chamber for a show on NASA. I don't...

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  • Screen Gems | Coming this week on TV and at the movies

    SMALL SCREEN Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal (9 p.m. Monday, HBO) -- Nevada rolled out the welcome mat for the Mafia goombahs who invented Las Vegas and the busted-luck gamblers who made it pay; for the mad Strangelovian scientists who needed a place to test-fire their nukes; even for all those space aliens who annually abduct countless innocent Americans and fly them to Area 51 to be buggered with random anal probes. But Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood madam? Heaven forfend! This sad, funny...

  • BROADCASTING

    Station merger on track

    It's unusual and gives activists who worry about corporate concentration of media the willies, but a plan to join two of South Florida's biggest television network affiliates under one roof is legal and will probably win FCC approval, broadcast-law experts said Friday.

  • Emmy surprises with nods to AMC, FX shows

    A topsy-turvy television season disfigured by Hollywood's labor troubles took one final unpredictable turn Thursday when Emmy voters mutinied, turning their backs on network hits in favor of shows with marginal ratings or obscure cable origins.

  • TELEVISION REVIEW

    A grunt's-eye-view of war's snafus

    Generation Kill, 9-10:15 p.m. Sunday, HBO Two bedraggled enlisted men, exhausted after days of dodging snipers and artillery barrages, are awakened to search for a captain who went to a latrine outside the perimeter and got lost in the desert. 'Bleepin' officers will be the death of us yet,'' grumbles one as they resignedly head off into the night.

  • TELEVISION REVIEW

    A grunt's-eye-view of war's snafus

    Generation Kill, 9-10:15 p.m. Sunday, HBO Two bedraggled enlisted men, exhausted after days of dodging snipers and artillery barrages, are awakened to search for a captain who went to a latrine outside the perimeter and got lost in the desert. 'Bleepin' officers will be the death of us yet,'' grumbles one as they resignedly head off into the night.

  • TELEVISION REVIEW

    A grunt's-eye-view of war's snafus

    Generation Kill, 9-10:15 p.m. Sunday, HBO Two bedraggled enlisted men, exhausted after days of dodging snipers and artillery barrages, are awakened to search for a captain who went to a latrine outside the perimeter and got lost in the desert. 'Bleepin' officers will be the death of us yet,'' grumbles one as they resignedly head off into the night.

  • TELEVISION REVIEW

    Let's play constables and robbers

    Flashpoint, 10-11 p.m. Friday, WFOR-CBS 4 From the rouge -- a mysterious and possibly sinister kicking play they added to U.S. football -- to poutin -- a barbarous dish made from french fries, cheese curd and gravy -- Canadians have always been a puzzle to their American neighbors. And Flashpoint, the new CBS cop drama from north of the border, doesn't really clarify anything.

  • SPY STUFF

    Some of the best stuff in Spycraft, the book H. Keith Melton wrote with co-authors Robert Wallace and Henry Robert Schlesinger, is unfortunately not on display in his museum:

  • Screen Gems | Coming this week on TV and at the movies

    BIG SCREEN Hellboy II: The Golden Army (PG-13) -- How do you follow up a slew of Oscar nominations? If you're writer-director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), you stick to your fantastical roots and make another installment in the adventures of the red-skinned comic-book hero Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to defend our planet from an invasion of otherwordly baddies.

  • SPY MUSEUM

    Palm Beach collector's got a secret -- and it's really spooky

    The surgeon general doesn't know the half of it: H. Keith Melton's got a cigarette that isn't just bad for your health. It can kill, abruptly and noisily. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

  • TELEVISION

    Foreign idea finds a home on Brickell

    When Sebastian Perioche arrived at Harvard to start work on his M.B.A. 12 years ago, he was shocked. Everybody in Paris had told him Boston was one of America's most cosmopolitan cities, but he could hardly find a theater screening the films of Claude Chabrol, Pedro Almódovar or any of the other European directors he liked so much.

  • Screen Gems | Coming this week on TV and at the movies

    BIG SCREEN BIG SCREEN Hancock (PG-13) -- A cranky, alcoholic superhero (Will Smith) hires a publicist (Jason Bateman) to help him repair his public persona. Charlize Theron co-stars for director Peter Berg (The Kingdom). Early reviews have not been kind, but Smith movies and the Fourth of July holiday are an unbeatable combination. Opens Wednesday.

  • TELEVISION REVIEW

    A neverending story: The world at war

    The War of the World, 11 p.m.-midnight Monday, WPBT-PBS 2 The title of this three-part PBS documentary series is no sloppy typo but deliberate wordplay on H.G. Welles' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, which describes a devastating attack by Martians armed with death rays and robotic fighting machines that leaves most of the world's great cities in ruins. To Scottish historian Niall Ferguson, the book was not science fiction but ''a work of astonishing prescience'' that accurately foretold the horrendous...

  • TELEVISION COMMENTARY

    Them's still fightin' words, by George!

    Comedian George Carlin always cheerily referred to himself as ''a footnote in American legal history,'' and in the wake of his death from a heart attack Sunday night, he turned into the most frequently cited footnote since that infamous one in the Starr Report about Bill, Monica and cigars.

  • MARX TOY MUSEUM

    Plastic warriors of childhood lure nostalgic boomers

    He has never set foot in the Pentagon, but Francis Turner is America's most powerful and experienced military commander. He led both the American and German armies at Normandy; he pushed aside Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee to seize control of all the troops at Appomattox; he was both the genius who planned the Sioux ambush in the Black Hills and the blockhead who led Custer's men into it. Photo Gallery Available

  • Screen Gems | Coming this week on TV and at the movies

    SMALL SCREEN Hopkins 24/7 (10 p.m. Thursday, ABC) -- You shouldn't watch this six-part peek inside Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital just because network documentary units are dying out and this might be the last chance you ever get to see one in action. You should watch it because it's fascinating and dramatic stuff: The family of a comatose little girl struggles with the decision to disconnect life support. A young doctor punctures a patient's lung during a routine procedure. And a top brain surgeon...

  • Majic 102.7 makes temp DJ new morning man

    South Florida oldies station WMXJ has a new morning man, sort of. Joe Johnson, a veteran at the station who's been filling in on the morning shift since Bruce Kelly was fired two months ago, will take it over permanently, WMXJ executives said Wednesday.

  • TELEVISION REVIEW

    'Evil' describes kidnappers of Japanese

    Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story. 10-11:30 p.m. Thursday. WPBT-PBS 2. Imposing moral judgments on nations is widely dismissed among the chattering classes as jingoist, simplistic and just plain dumb. Remember the contempt heaped on Ronald Reagan for calling the Soviet Union an ''evil empire?'' And when George W. Bush referred to North Korea as part of an ''axis of evil'' a few years ago, diplomats and academics grew downright faint. Evil is ''too heavy and radioactive a word,'' complained an official...

  • Screen Gems | Coming this week on TV and at the movies

    SMALL SCREEN Penn & Teller's Bull- - - -! (10 p.m. Thursday, Showtime) -- America's most hilariously debauched investigative report returns for a sixth season, with erstwhile magicians Penn and Teller screaming insults (well, Penn screams; the silent Teller makes faces) and ruthlessly pranking their interview subjects as they trample on conventional wisdom and sometimes even human decency. (I exaggerate not; they actually trashed Mother Teresa one week.) On the season opener, they bash censorious...

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