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The Closer: Season Five Premiere

by Leigh H. Edwards

[8.Jun.09] :. As The Closer evolves both formally and thematically, Brenda and her team are forced to reflect on their own assumptions and actions.

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The Closer: Season Four Return

by Leigh H. Edwards

[26.Jan.09] :. The fourth season return of The Closer finds fresh ways to mine the tensions between work and private life endured by LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick).

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

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The Closer

by Leigh H. Edwards

[21.Jul.08] :. In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating.

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The Closer: The Complete Third Season

by Jennifer Kelly

[16.Jul.08] :. Johnson is a new breed of television heroine: smart, driven, successful and about three-eighths of an inch away from unlikeable.

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40something (and up) women are taking over cable TV

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[6.Aug.07] :. Holly Hunter told a story recently about secretly convening seven years ago with other top actresses, including Kyra Sedgwick and Mary-Louise Parker, who hatched a plan to take over cable...

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The Closer - The Complete Second Season

by Leigh H. Edwards

[19.Jun.07] :. Deputy Police Chief Brenda Lee Johnson cracks cases because she knows what makes cracked people tick.

 

The Closer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jun.07] :. At the office this season, Brenda faces ongoing budget issues that threaten to break up the team she spent two TNT seasons convincing they were a team.

 

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jan.06] :. Despite its title, Albert Brooks' new movie, like all his movies, is about his world.

 

Homecoming

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.05] :. The genius of Homecoming is that it speaks an antic-seeming truth to power, even as U.S. news media can't.

 

Brooklyn South: The Complete Series

by Stephen Tropiano

[23.Feb.04] :. The first episode features the sort of graphic violence one would expect to see in an R-rated film.

 

You Can Count on Me (2000)

by Dale Leech

In fact, when Terry describes Scottsville as a town full of 'dull, narrow people... with no perspective, no scope,' he might have been describing the film's characters.