'Antiques Roadshow' event in Tulsa gets high appraisal

Thousands of people visited Tulsa on Saturday to have their most prized possessions appraised in connection with the long-running PBS series 'Antiques Roadshow.'

HBO’s ‘Too Big to Fail,’ and too soon to find catharsis in our economic meltdown

HBO Films — the Emmy-collecting, moviemaking arm of the cable network — seems to prefer projects that all sound like costume dramas for news junkies who mostly consume media with “New York” in the title: The New Yorker, New York magazine and, of course, the great gray lady herself, where one imagines an HBO movie deal is probably as good as any Pulitzer.

In that spirit, “Too Big to Fail” is the HBO movie version of New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s essential book of the same name, a play-by-play retelling of the 2008 economic meltdown. It premieres Monday night to the expectation that, when the right talents are convened, something as complicated as the mortgage bust, the Lehman Brothers collapse and the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program can be respun into grippingly dramatic gold.

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‘The Office’ without Steve Carell

For six seasons of NBC's hit "The Office," Steve Carell has stood in, symbolically, for everyone's stupid manager/team leader/division head -- even in an economy where millions of people ceased having a boss at all. At least they still had Michael.