Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie.One of the best new television series of the summer season is Showtime's Nurse Jackie, starring Edie Falco, of The Sopranos fame. At first blush, the title character seems like a fairly typical medical-TV creation: She's a sassy wife and mother who's so fiercely devoted to the well-being of her patients that she's willing to get in their faces of doctors and administrators she feels have misplaced their priorities. But she's far from perfect. Jackie's addicted t
What will happen when David Caruso gets his hands on Balloon Boy?It'll happen any day now: You'll come home from work, sink into your couch and flip on your TV, hoping for a Real World-Road Rules marathon or something equally vapid, and there it will be: that damn balloon, flying through the New York or Miami or Las Vegas sky, the voice of a fake newsman narrating its slow, soft descent. You'll want to switch the channel. You really will. But they'll pull you in, just like always, and the
