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The Gardner gets a shout out on “The Simpsons”

April 12, 2010

The Simpsons puts Mr. Burns in possession of Vermeer’s “The Concert,” one of the paintings stolen in the 1990 Gardner Heist. Watch the clip.

Movies

Some More IN-FOR-MA-TION on AMC’s Prisoner Remake

November 22, 2009

When watching The Prisoner remake on AMC, it was hard to not think about how much better the McGoohan series is, because the remake did everything it could to remind you of the original. Not only are there countless visual references (I picked out a few while watching, see bottom of post) but plots were […]

Movies

Prisoner No. 2: AMC’s The Prisoner

November 15, 2009

I’m afraid of being hypocritical here, because I am the guy who shakes his head when he opens up the Globe‘s Arts section and finds that half of it is about TV. But, I just couldn’t resist putting down some anticipatory thoughts (concerns?) on the AMC/ITV miniseries remake of the Patrick McGoohan classic The Prisoner, […]