‘Joe’ the barber has been J.P. Devine’s constant hair-cutting companion over the years in more ways than one.
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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3 incredibly better
We’re back with season 3 of “Only Murders in the Building,” the hugely popular American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. It may eventually turn out to be the “Barbie” of TV. Maybe it’s just climate change, but it’s incredibly better. If you’re joined at the hip with the millions […]
On the Edge: ‘We’ve got our guy’
J.P. Devine recalls the opportunity he received through the GI Bill to get into theater with the Cleveland playhouse gang of ’55.
‘Jules’ creators embrace hope-filled screenplay formula
Finally, as we exit a murky June and July, a much-needed and heroic attempt to bring sweetness and light back to our new neighborhood screen arrives. In an industry, that as we speak, is bereft of hope and heroics and full of spiders and atomic clouds, “Jules” lands in our pines and offers a modicum […]
On the Edge: The last days of Hollywood
Nothing has changed in Hollywood, where J.P. Devine remembers frequent strikes from struggling actors who make demands they won’t get.
‘And Just Like That’ Aiden returns
I’ve given up trying to make sense of the women in “Sex and the City,” I’m sorry, “And Just Like That.” Carrie Bradshaw, who only a week ago was prowling the streets in what looked like a collection of shopping bags from a designers tire store, seems to be the one of the trio who […]
J.P. Devine: These days it’s worth asking that old Johnny Carson refrain, ‘How hot was it?’
The longtime ‘Tonight Show’ host would use the bit in his opening monologue, and these days, with blistering heat descending on many parts of the world, there are plenty of ways to respond, writes J.P. Devine.
Old Harlan City crew missed in ‘Justified: City Primeval’
First of all, I was seriously depressed that Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), Raylan Givens’ (same old beloved Timothy Olyphant) criminal du jour, is not here. Goggins was so good, so perfect as Given’s foe, he will be missed. In fact, none of the old crowd from Harlan County, Kentucky, are here, and I miss them. […]
‘The Miracle Club’ full of secrets, lost loves, rain
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan There are broken hearts here in director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s film and Jimmy Smallhorne, Timothy Prager and Joshua D. Maurer’s story. It’s an Irish story, full of secrets, lost loves and rain. It’s about three women, Maggie […]
On the Edge: Me, She and the ginkgo tree
Mulling how he’d like his cremated remains in a BioUrn, J.P. Devine settles on the tree he wants to help grow.