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‘Harper’s Island’: Would you like cream or sugar with that corpse?

“Harper’s Island” heats way up! This feels more like a penultimate episode than eight of 13. If the writers keep this pace (and body count) up the next few weeks, the show just might regain some viewers. It’s supposed to be Trish Wellington and Henry Dunn’s wedding day, but ...

Harper’s Island home to hillbillies and flashbacks

It's a very special flashback episode of "Harper's Island." So bear with me. Sheriff Mills and his men walk purposefully through Candlewick Inn in the opening scene, where plans are under way to search the guests' rooms for clues to Thomas Wellington's murder. Bridal party members are ...

Taylor Swift loves Lawrence!

Excuse the exclamation points, but country cutie Taylor Swift has just professed her love for Lawrence and Kansas University (!!!!!!)! In a post on Oprah's Web site Swift talks about how she loves visiting her best friend (who attends KU) and how she feels like when she's here she gets to ...

‘Harper’s Island’: The father of the bride is very, very dead

So guests to Trish Wellington and Henry Dunn’s wedding can toss their save-the-dates, because Trish’s father, Thomas Wellington, did indeed die in the wedding rehearsal at the end of episode five. Some sharp-edged museum artifact reporting missing awhile back was rigged to the church ...

Idol finale delivers clash of the titans

One has been called a "dreamer," a "superstar" and a "rock god." The other a "dark horse," a "big-time player" and a "radio-ready heartthrob." The matchup was being billed as "guy next door" vs. "guy-liner." For much of Tuesday's singing finale of American Idol season eight, the ...

‘Harper’s Island’ finally finds its legs

From CBS: "Harper's Island" is about a group of family and friends who travel to a secluded island off the coast of Seattle for a destination wedding. This island is famous for a streak of unsolved murders from seven years ago. Although they've come to laugh and to love, what they don't ...