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Remember the wine-soaked California wine-country movie Sideways ? Well, life doesn't always imitate art.

This past week, I was staying up late, bowing to the broadcast schedule of the Democrats in Denver, waiting to see the best of show that came toward the witching hour of the convention each night.

Whether America's next first lady is Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain, one thing is certain: Neither of them is likely to go down in history as anonymously as Jane Pierce, Helen Taft, Ellen Arthur or Florence ...

TV Online It's John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson at the Fair at New Boston As it was in 1800, only tax-paying white men can cast ballots in the fair's election re-creation By Andrew McGinn Extras Photos Bill ...

By Paul Ibrahim I rarely have much praise for what airs on television these days.

Against the greatest odds, attorney John Adams used these words to defend the British soldiers who fired shots during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.

The fact that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's famous friendship recovered from the acrimonious presidential campaigns of 1796 and 1800 is a monument to 18th-century detachment and the mysterious power of ...

The fact that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's famous friendship recovered from the acrimonious presidential campaigns of 1796 and 1800 is a monument to 18th-century detachment and the mysterious power of ...

When Thomas Jefferson found himself accused of planning to burn all Bibles and legalize prostitution if elected president in 1800, he was ready with a counterpunch that might make today's most vitriolic ...

FDR's first veep, John Nance Garner, reportedly said the job wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit." His actual quote, while less decorous, conveyed the same message.

Though three of this year's nominees are actresses playing historical figures, the similarities between their roles end there.

TV, as entertainment, ended for me when the lights went out on "The Sopranos." Not even lying on the couch with my leg in a cast for three months justified "Wife Swap," "Bachelorette" or similar peephole ...

Over the course of a few evenings, my husband, Jeff, and I watched the founding of our country unfold in the HBO series, "John Adams," which is based on the book of the same name by David McCullough.

From Harper's Bazaar : Tyra Banks is sitting on the huge corner sofa in her office in New York, impressing on her interviewer the fierceness of Abigail Adams.

Gone, but not forgotten. That's how most North Carolinians are thinking of the late former Sen.

"John Adams," the seven-part HBO Films miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, premiered in March on HBO.

"John Adams," the seven-part HBO Films miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, premiered in March on HBO.

"John Adams," the seven-part HBO Films miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, premiered in March on HBO.

"John Adams," the seven-part HBO Films miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, premiered in March on HBO.

"John Adams," the seven-part HBO Films miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, premiered in March on HBO.