Helen Shaver

In the strange world of animal performances, there can be few stranger than "Cat Dancers" (HBO, Monday, 8 p.m.). The act from Ron and Joy Holiday, later joined by Chuck Lizza, combined dancing, tights, trysts and tigers. A documentary by Harris...

"City by the Sea" is essentially a made-for-TV movie with better casting and more cursing. Based loosely on the true story of a New York police detective who learns his estranged son is the prime suspect in a murder, it easily could have been one of...

Steve Martin gazed out at the Hollywood crowd as he hosted last year's Oscars and tried to surmise what the vast television audience must be thinking: "They're all gay," he said. Yet for all the jokes about the entertainment industry embracing--or, in...

Friday May 3, 1996      Everybody knows that the content and economy of American commercial television is dependent on the Nielsen ratings, and most of us have deduced from those ratings that Nielsen families are chosen for their per annum consumption of...

Monday April 3, 1995      It's a shame that the makers of "Born to Be Wild" went to such great lengths to create an absolutely convincing gorilla via technical wizardry only to waste their efforts on such a trite, predictable comedy-adventure. Both Katie...