From HNN, have you noticed how television pervades public places in the United States? Without late-night, candidates get a pass: As the writer's strike enters its second month, this presidential race is the first in recent memory with no one to reprocess the news for late-night comedy shtick. You couldn’t write this stuff — TV reality sets in: Because of the writers’ strike, networks’ schedules will be filled with repeats or reality programs come January. A review of Fawlty Towers: The Story of Britain's Favourite Sitcom by Graham McCann. The Good, the Bad, and the Japanese: The brilliant director Akira Kurosawa, of "Seven Samurai" fame, helped bring a new kind of hero to the American movie screen — not so much film noir as film gris. Do film critics know anything? Richard Corliss wants to know.
