The Game, Lets Stay Together, Reed Between the
Lines, Sunday Best: Renewed for 2012-13

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Regina Weinreich: Girls Just Wanna Have: HBO's
Girls and Mary Harran's Moth Diaries

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Grounded in a current day realism about sex, friendship, and work for recent college grads, HBO's much touted series Girls, airs this weekend. To focus on one aspect of its satire, in Girls, sex is free and freely given, an unsatisfying service by the girls, done with bewildered cads, happy to get what they can. Is this hooking up the logical extension of what Erica Jong extolled in her landmark 1973 novel Fear of Flying: "the zipless fuck?" Freed, women should pull down their pants at whim the way men do, right? For women who grew up with these "joys of sex," watching Hannah (Lena Dunham of Tiny Furniture fame who also writes and directs) and her twenty-something pals is an untoward vision of what many suspected back in the day, that liberation did not necessarily bring enlightenment. Viewers can watch Hannah's guy (Adam Driver) enter her from behind, with not much going on for her.

Despite its engaging wit, Girls' coming of adulthood is more troubling than Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries, a fascinating soft horror movie based on Rachel Klein's novel, to open in theaters next week. Set in a girls' boarding school in a wooded area ready for alluring supernatural forces and vampires, the film shows a handsome male teacher Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman) lecturing on the properties of gothic novels: Sex, Blood, and Death, writing these words large on the blackboard. Suggestions of transgressive titillation play on the girls' imaginations. A newcomer, Ernessa (model/ actress Lily Cole in a black Mortitia wig) threatens friendships among these appealing, wholesome teens, seeming to possess Lucy (Sara Gadon), best friend of Rebecca (Sarah Bolger), and causing her to go mad, another gothic trope. These girls, fine actresses all, are especially good at evoking tender vulnerability.

Old school, this dark romantic tease stands in for sex. By contrast, Girls will have none of it: the yearnings, obsessions, repressions, betrayals, danger, or death. Smartly styled as pointless, with few pleasures or surprises, their sex has "the consistency of Velveeta" to borrow another Erica Jong phrase. Funny, yes. But, where's the fun?

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Edie Falco's Son Thinks Everyone Is Adopted

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"Nurse Jackie" actress, Edie Falco, told Anderson Cooper on Thursday that her adopted son, also named Anderson, thinks everyone else was adopted, too.

"My son says, 'So then the lady has the baby in her belly,' and then I said, 'And when the baby comes out she gives the baby to the mommy,'" Falco said.

Anderson, 8, and his younger sister Macy, 4, were both adopted. Falco says she'll let them stick to the "everyone's adopted" theory for awhile. "The fact that some of the ladies keep the babies for their own. We will get to that.”

Eventually, when she does explain how other families are made, Falco says she isn't worried about how her kids will react. "The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life," she said.

Falco admits that she never thought of adoption before the time came when she wanted to have kids. "At that time I was single and the idea to adopt came to me. I never really thought about all of the ramifications. I just knew this is what’s happening. It’s only as I travel through I realize each challenge comes up and you deal with it as you get to it," she told Cooper.

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'Britain's Got Talent': Strictly Wheels combine
wheelchairs, ballroom dance

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While critics of talent shows may bemoan how many there are currently on television, the joy of them is that they can occasionally produce moments that you would not see anywhere else.On Saturday night's edition of &quot...

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John and Yoko or David and Kylie

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Such a brilliant line from Owen on arriving early to change the locks on Audrey's salon! On entry,[...]

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Ellen Burstyn Joins Star-Studded 'Political
Animals' Cast

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Ellen Burstyn (Big Love, Requiem for a Dream) will join the cast of the upcoming six-part USA series Political Animals, the network announced Friday. The Oscar-winning actress joins previously announced cast members including Sigourney Weaver, Ciaran Hinds, and Carla Gugino in the Washington, D.C.-based drama.

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'Britain's Got Talent': The Showbears jokingly
called 'New One Direction'

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Even when we see a group on a reality competition that is not the best, the right twist (or a positive edit) can turn them into potential superstars. On Saturday afternoon's episode of "Britain's Got...

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'The X Factor' USA alum Rachel Crow talks filming
Nickeoldeon show

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Rachel Crow has yet to officially start filming her first headlining show on Nickelodeon since appearing on "The X Factor" this past fall, but is in the process of taking on a guest arc for another series in...

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