Sure, Bernard Kerik and Judith Regan are easy targets. But last week’s LAW AND ORDER had a spicy ex-police commissioner plot with Kevin Dunn doing a deliciously narcissistic Kerik, who was two-timing on publishing magnate Regan with a porn star. (In real life, the married Kerik was cheating on his mistress, a corrections officer…) Tape “Publish and Perish” next time it repeats… (NBC still hasn’t updated for Annie Parisse, the new DA, on its web site.)
WE STILL DON’T GET OUT MUCH
Critical darling Mike Leigh blows hot (SECRETS AND LIES) and cold (TOPSY-TURVY), but Vera Drake is a MUST RENTAL. The only thing I didn’t like about it was its anachronistic music.