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scalpels in the city; Joan Juliet Buck is charmed by women in medicine.
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck
Grey's Anatomy is an ABC series about a vocation that manages to make the desire to cut people open as romantic as the desire to be a great musician. Created by Shonda Rhimes (who wrote the terrific HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge), the show brings a tender, fragile spin to the tired medical milieu, in the person of Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), a disabused, surgical intern. When she wakes up naked next to a strange man before her first day at Seattle Grace Hospital, Meredith announces as she hustles him out, "We don't have to exchange details, pretend we care." He of course already does, and before the show is over he will turn out to be Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), a ...
- high adventure; Joan Juliet Buck is fascinated by the dash and verve of three...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet November 1, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Should you think that this is a peculiar, greedy, unthinking age, turn to PBS's American Experience series on November 14...
- difficult women; Joan Juliet Buck looks at the spring lineup and finds sympathy...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet March 1, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck On HBO, the new series Big Love zeroes in on the Mormons of Utah, specifically ones who practice polygamy. Bill Henrickson...
- dream jobs; Joan Juliet Buck tracks those intrepid souls who seek the...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet June 1, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck I got rid of the flies, maggots, and ants," says the coroner. The body on the floor of the bedroom is a bloody battered mess...
- big talent; Joan Juliet Buck talks to Rachel Griffiths, the consummate alpha...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet November 1, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Rachel Griffiths is a great actress who delivers a charge that's a rare combination of Earth Mother, leader, troubled soul...
- Family feeling; Joan Juliet Buck watches a BBC mystery about a sticky boyfriend...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet June 1, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Secret Smile, a nice paranoid little mystery on BBC America, begins with a family in front of a plaque that says miranda jane...
- the awful truth; Joan Juliet Buck reviews a fine film about Rwanda and Fat...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet March 1, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Raoul Peck's Sometimes in April, on HBO March 19, is an intense and heartbreaking film about one of the most horrifying and...
- cold war days; Joan Juliet Buck savors buttoned-down, old-time romance in two...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet August 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Smoky bars. Big cars. High stakes. Cold War. A new series on AMC and a stunning movie on TNT are both set in the days when...
- good and evil; Joan Juliet Buck is riveted by HBO's great film...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet February 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck No screenwriter has ever managed to impose his take on power as clearly as Peter Morgan. He wrote The Queen, pairing Elizabeth...
- Delicious shakespeare lite; Joan Juliet Buck applauds the BBC's masterly modern...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet August 1, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Modernized Shakespeare is most often an excruciating pageant wherein men and women in vaguely twentieth-century clothes improbably...
- on the edge; Joan Juliet Buck looks at Annie Oakley's Wild West, Stephen King,...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Buck, Joan Juliet May 1, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck One of the more lighthearted specials this month is the American Experience documentary on PBS about the tiny Quaker prodigy Phoebe...