''Damages'' is ''Law & Order'' as rendered by Marcel Duchamp. The series rips a scandal from the headlines, then fragments it so artfully that it takes an entire season to see the whole picture. This time, it's the Bernard L. Madoff story. Season 3 of this stylish legal thriller begins on FX on Monday with New York's scariest litigator, Patty Hewes...

AS Violet Newstead, the coffee-poisoning, corpse-stealing, boss-kidnapping office supervisor in the hit 1980 movie ''9 to 5,'' Lily Tomlin did just about everything except sing and dance. But now those tasks (in addition to the coffee poisoning, corpse stealing and boss-napping) have fallen to Allison Janney, the Emmy-winning actress who is playing...

Nothing in Paul Schrader's film ''The Walker'' can quite match its delicious opening scene of sniping repartee over canasta among three Washington grandes dames and their pet gay playmate. Lynn (Kristin Scott Thomas), Natalie (Lauren Bacall) and Abigail (Lily Tomlin) constitute what may be the screen's most formidable threesome of jaded,...