13 Most Awkward TV Weddings
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On Thursday, after five seasons of beautifully clumsy courtship, Jim and Pam will finally tie the knot on The Office. In true sitcom style, it's guaranteed to be filled with disastrous moments. Therefore, in anticipation, we look back at our favorite trainwreck TV weddings, from Ross' name switcheroo on Friends to the Brady Bunch's mess-making pup.
15 Top TV Nurses from M*A*S*H to Mercy
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Doctor dramas have dominated the airwaves for some time with their larger-than-life plots and leading male heartthrobs, but now a new crop of TV shows is shifting focus to some tough-minded nurses who are often left on the sidelines. Here are 15 of our favorite TV nurses from the classic M*A*S*H to Mercy, a new series premiering this week on NBC.
12 Best and Worst TV Musicals
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Fox is previewing its new, musically inspired fall show Glee after American Idol in hopes of hooking fans early. But this isn't the first show to be inspired by Broadway-here's a look at some other television shows that have tried (and occasionally failed) to capture the magic of the Great White Way.
Portrait of the Writer as a Young Doctor
Abraham Verghese is a Professor of Medicine and the Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and many other venues. He has written three books, most recently the novel Cutting for Stone, which was just published by Knopf. His web site is Abrahamverghese.com.
The author of Cutting for Stone on the books that drew him to medicine, make him a better physician, and helped him find his voice as a novelist.
Resuscitation: A Q&A with the Creator of Scrubs
Miriam Datskovsky is an associate editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for Conde Nast Portfolio, New York magazine, and nymag.com.
On the eve of Scrubs' final season, creator Bill Lawrence talks to The Daily Beast about not giving in to happy endings, the medical community's strange love for the show, and why he's headed to Cougar Town with Courteney Cox.
This winter, scripted television returns with a vengeance. From wacky new dramedies like United States of Tara and Trust Me, to the edutainment revival of The Electric Company, to the reprise of mega-hits Lost and 24, there's nearly-but not quite-too much to watch. The Daily Beast previews the best-and warns of the worst. By Miriam Datskovsky.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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