One way to avoid angry outbursts is to avoid stressful situations. And Charlie Sheen seems to be doing just that with "Anger Management."

The show's network, FX, airs some of the most challenging -- and best -- comedies on television. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is transcendently offensive. "Wilfred" is an absurdist fantasy about a man and a talking dog. "Louie" operates at a higher level than almost everything else on TV.

(Both "Wilfred" and "Louie" return Thursday, when "Anger Management" premieres -- though "Wilfred" had a new, "special preview episode" last week.)

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It’s with the greatest respect for the legacy of Steve Jobs and the storytelling prowess of author Walter Isaacson that I have to confess: I arrived at the end of the book they made together with a sense that it’s all somehow … ordinary.

“Was he smart?” Isaacson says in the book’s final pages. “No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.” 

So is this expansive, exhaustively thorough and balanced doorstop of over 600 pages a work of genius -- the kind Isaacson nudged close to in say, his Einstein or Benjamin Franklin biographies?  

No. But it is exceptionally ... workmanlike.

Already a runaway hit via a staggering volume of downloads and hard-cover purchases, the book is an undeniable event.

With its minimalist black and white cover -- a cover reconfigured by the...

Anna Faris has been called this generation’s Lucille Ball: She’s pretty, smart, has impeccable timing and isn’t afraid to cast dignity aside in pursuit of a hardy laugh.

Her new film “What’s Your Number?” is a pet project she both stars in and produced. It’s a chance to show just how audacious she can be, a chance to step up, a chance to shine. And it stinks on ice.

Faris plays Ally, an average 20-something living on her own in Boston. Riding home on the subway after losing her job, she reads in a magazine that the average woman has had ten lovers in her lifetime, and if you reach 20, you will probably never find...

The only thing more depressing than watching contestants get cut from "X Factor" auditions is watching them get through.

The show, which debuted Wednesday after years of plotting, is about money, not music. Specifically, it's about exploiting the financial straits of its frequently desperate contestants.

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Almost every one of the successful performers on the first episode mentioned money as a motivation – and many truly seemed to need it, from a 42-year-old...