Gary Susman
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Gary Susman

Gary Susman has been covering movies and TV for more than 25 years and has been a Moviefone columnist since 2009. He is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he helped launch the award-winning PopWatch blog. He has written about entertainment for such outlets as Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, People, CNN, MSNBC, Life, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Boston Phoenix. He has been a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics since 1993. He is one of the authors of the 2011 book "LIFE 75 Years: The Very Best of LIFE."

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​The 17 Best and Worst TV Presidents

​The 17 Best and Worst TV Presidents

%Slideshow-261948% The president of the United States used to be such a lofty figure, so far removed from the fantasy li...

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The 31 Best Erotic Thrillers Ever Made

The 31 Best Erotic Thrillers Ever Made

%Slideshow-261660% Who says the erotic thriller is dead? Maybe it's just been lying in wait. The heyday of the genre was...

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Oscars 2015: The Reasons for the Black Shutout Are More Complicated Than You Think

Oscars 2015: The Reasons for the Black Shutout Are More Complicated Than You Think

Well, with last Thursday's announcement of the Oscar nominations, the sometimes ratings-challenged Academy Awards got al...

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Woody Allen's Amazon Series: Six Burning Questions

Woody Allen's Amazon Series: Six Burning Questions

Woody Allen used to joke that television was the result of how Los Angeles disposes of its trash, but now he's in the bu...

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Oscar Nominations 2015: Snubs and Surprises

Oscar Nominations 2015: Snubs and Surprises

Everything is not awesome. The Oscar nominations are always full of snubs and surprises, but the one that's probably cau...

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Oscars 2015: Predicting the Nominations

Oscars 2015: Predicting the Nominations

This year's Oscar race has been a thorny one to predict. Despite the emergence early on of a few front-runners in each c...

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Golden Globes 2015: The 15 Best and Worst Moments

Golden Globes 2015: The 15 Best and Worst Moments

%Slideshow-258898% Was there a certain zip and verve missing from the Golden Globes this year? Maybe it was the relative...

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Watchers on the Wall: 'Game of Thrones' and the Crumbling Barrier Between TV and Movies

Watchers on the Wall: 'Game of Thrones' and the Crumbling Barrier Between TV and Movies

There's surely no better place than an IMAX screen to watch a story about a 700-foot-high wall. But the announcement thi...

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Golden Globes 2015: The 12 Things You're Most Likely to See at This Year's Ceremony

Golden Globes 2015: The 12 Things You're Most Likely to See at This Year's Ceremony

A month from now, are you even going to remember who won the Golden Globes? And should you? After all, it's not like the...

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​Oscars 2015: Let the Mudslinging Begin

​Oscars 2015: Let the Mudslinging Begin

It was inevitable, with so many inspired-by-a-true-story films in the Oscar race, that there would be grumbling about th...

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New Year's Resolutions for TV Characters

New Year's Resolutions for TV Characters

Sure, that sort of behavior makes for great drama and comedy, but it also makes for messy lives. If our favorite TV char...

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