XM and Sirius: Hooray for Monopolies!Plus: The Breeders’ bizarre listening party, the Smashing Pumpkins’ lawsuit against their record company, and a lot of ‘Law & Order’ sound effects.
the early-evening news
Big Boi to Perform in Ballet, Probably in TightsAndré 3000’s better half collaborates with the Atlanta Ballet, T.I. goes to Easter Mass, and the A-Team movie is actually being released! In movie theaters!
S. Epatha Merkerson on ‘Little Sheba,’ ‘Law & Order,’ and Uncle BillFor those of us who know S. Epatha Merkerson as Law & Order’s tough-as-nails Lieutenant Anita Van Buren, witnessing her seamless transformation into a doting housewife swanning onstage in floral sundresses on Broadway can be a bit jarring.
‘The Closer’: Is Kyra Sedgwick Afraid to Play It Pretty?This week’s episode of The Closer finds Brenda Johnson and Co. settling into a good rhythm. At episode’s start, we learn that a girl has gone missing, and the department lays on the full-court press to track her down.
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Detective Munch’s Ninth Cameo, RevealedLast week, Vulture commanded you, the reader, to reach into the depths of your pop-cultural memories to come up with the nine television series that actor Richard Belzer’s character Detective Munch has appeared on since his inception in 1993, as we could only come up with eight.
apropos of nothing
That’s Detective Munch to YouSeasoned actor Richard Belzer has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to release two crime novels that he describes as “a mix of Dashiell Hammett, Oscar Wilde, Lenny Bruce and Robert Altman.”