Once is not enough. Sometimes a second look, or a second episode, is necessary to convince a skeptic that a show is worth taking a risk on. So it is with ABC's dazzling but dauntingly precious Once Upon a Time (Sunday, 8/7c), which back when I was considering it for Fall Preview left me wondering: "Is this ambitiously whimsical fantasia the next Pushing Daisies cult fave or the next Eastwick insta-flop? (Either way, it will likely be an uphill climb to happily ever after.) It would be easier to love if it weren't so convoluted and campy."
But then ABC made another episode (the third, airing Nov. 6) available for review, and I started to find myself enchanted and beguiled, ready to curl up with more chapters of this fractured fairy tale. First, though, you have to digest the premise, and the overstuffed and often overripe pilot is a lot to swallow. We begin in a lavishly rendered fairy-tale land ...
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More than a week after announcing their split, Ryan Reynolds has filed for divorce from Scarlett Johansson, People reports
The 34-year-old actor filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday. Johansson, 26, filed...
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Heart's hit song "Alone" has a whole new meaning for its lead singer.
Nancy Wilson and director Cameron Crowe are divorcing after 24 years, People reports.
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A remake of The Fog smoked the box-office competition over the weekend, but only barely: Minus Adrienne Barbeau, the thriller earned just $12.2 million, narrowly defeating last week's top pic, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which scared up an additional $11.7 million. Rounding out the Top 5 are Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown in third place with $11 million; Flightplan in fourth with $6.5 million and In Her Shoes in fifth with $6.1 million.
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