Our top moments of the week:
9. Best Comeback: On the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance, redheaded contemporary dancer Caleb Brauner is back after having shared a hilarious and memorable audition dance with his dad last year. Unfortunately, since then, his father has died, but that lights a fire in Caleb. Although he doesn't make it in New Orleans where he first tries out, he...
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The Normal Heart and Petals on the Wind enjoyed solid debuts over the holiday weekend.
Based on the 1985 play that chronicles the emergence of AIDS in New York City in the early 1980s, Ryan Murphy's adaptation starring Mark Ruffalo and Julia Roberts drew 1.4 million viewers on Sunday. Although The Normal Heart couldn't top the 2.4 million viewers Behind the Candelabra grabbed on the same night last year, it ranks...
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The chickens have come home to roost. Lifetime scored huge ratings last January with its gothic freakfest Flowers in the Attic, based on the 1979 V.C. Andrews best seller. Now comes Petals on the Wind. Inspired by Andrews's follow-up novel, the movie leaps ahead 10 years to find brother-and-sister lovers Chris and Cathy Dollanganger (this time played by Wyatt Nash and Rose McIver) trying hard — and failing — to bury their lust for each other.
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