Courteney Cox Movie:

		List Price: $59.99		Label: Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment Salesrank: 18553 Released: December 11, 2007
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Editorial Review:
Enter the secret and salacious world of show business through the back door. Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox) makes the headlines as the woman Hollywood loves to hate in the darkly comedic drama Dirt. As editor-in-chief of Tinseltown’s most influential magazines, Spiller can make or break the stars. Her obsession with the seamy side of the entertainment industry gives her power over every celebrity in the biz, but leaves her helpless against her own demons. It’s "delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious," raves The Miami Herald. Dig deep with Dirt: The Complete First Season. Experience every sumptuous episode, plus exciting bonus features you can’t see anywhere else, in this 4-disc box set. It’s tempting television at its best.

Description of Dirt - The Complete First Season:
Hot-wired into the tabloid zeitgeist, Dirt is good, lurid fun. Courteney Cox, in a bold departure from Monica on Friends, stars as Lucy Spiller, editor of Dirt magazine. Relentless, high-strung Lucy is part Ben Bradlee and part Bonnie Fuller. She's a stickler for journalistic integrity with a basic instinct for the scandalous "get." "There's actual reporting in what we do," she rallies her reporters. "The only defense we have is the truth." Lucy is saddled with a clichéd personal life (abandonment issues, intimacy issues, blah, blah, blah). She is way more fun to watch at work when she's blackmailing celebs to deliver scoops by threatening to reveal their sexual peccadilloes, stun-gunning one-night-stands, or betraying a loved one to score an exclusive, career-wrecking cover story. Her go-to photographer and best friend is Don Konkey (Ian Hart, an uncanny John Lennon in Backbeat and The Hours and Times) a functioning schizophrenic prone to hallucinations, but who will do anything for Lucy, even sever his own finger to gain admittance to a hospital where an unblemished Christian pop star is being mysteriously kept under wraps. Konkey is the voice and heart of Dirt. His introductory episode recaps are a highlight ("No offense, but you should be up on this by now," he states in episode 7). Waiting in the wings on Lucy's staff is Willa (Alex Breckenridge), young, green, and hungry. She becomes a much more provocative presence as she joins the dark side as the season progresses.

Dirt could use sharper writing, but it's savvy enough when it comes to parsing Hollywood-speak. A celebrity's so-called "exhaustion" is translated by Lucy to mean "rehab or a psychotic break." Dirt drops A-list names (Clooney, Britney), but for a series set in Hollywood, it's light on actual celebrities (director David Fincher and a self-deprecating Christopher Knight and Adrienne Curry appear as themselves). Instead, we get unconvincing fictional celebrities such as wash-out actor Holt McLaren (Josh Stewart), who gets his shot at superstardom by making the same kind of pact with Lucy that John Cassavetes made with the coven in Rosemary's Baby. Just one scoop begins a downward spiral for his sitcom-actress girlfriend (Laura Allen) and her best friend, an actress with an ill-timed pregnancy (Shannyn Sossamon). Also getting down and dirty are Rick Fox as a compromised basketball superstar, Wayne Brady as a cultured thug, and, in the season finale, Jennifer Aniston as Lucy's rival (and then some, although their much-hyped onscreen kiss is really much ado about nothing). An FX series, Dirt shovels on the network's envelope-pushing profane language and graphic sex scenes. It should clean up on DVD. --Donald Liebenson

Dirt - The Complete First Season Reviews:
excellent
2009-11-06 - show! Sadly, it gets in line with 2 other big favourites of mine, that didnt' t catch a broader viewing audience: Action (Jay Mohr) and The Job (Denis Leary).
Best work Coxy has ever done, hope the show creator (his name escapes me) keeps working!!!

Ian Hart in a very unique role.
2009-03-04 - Courtney Cox is well Courtney Cox and a quite a bit better than in "Friends".

A Good Guilty Pleasure
2009-02-22 - When I first heard of this show coming out I immediately thought of it probably not being all that okay, but gave it a try since it is on FX, which has some real good shows.

And it delivered. The show revolves around the editor (Cox) of a "trash" magazine who will stop at nothing to ensure that she can get the goods on people. It is well written, insightful as to some of the craziness in Hollywood and this form of "news" and has some other people that turn in nice performances, such as the photographer and what he does to get a shot.

There are scenes that are both humorous and others that make you cringe as often the no holds barred approach of making others a bit unhappy in order to please readers (which are us) hits home in a different way than seeing the paparazzi surround stars on the ETs and Access Hollywoods.

It may not be the same level as other FX shows, but it is entertaining and fun even if the general concept is a guilty pleasure waiting to jump out. Just wish it lasted longer than two seasons.

Loved it!
2008-12-17 - I was not sure what to think when I bought this season, but I had heard that it was good from a friend. Courtney Cox is fantastic as a character in charge of a half-dirty tabloid, half-entertainment news type of magazine. She is constantly battling with celebrities to get new "dirt" that no other magazine has, and is very good at playing the politics needed to make it in the business.

There is plenty of sexual inuendo (and more) for those looking for that, and great relationships between characters that are constantly evolving. While the show uses very few celebrities, you will feel that the celeb characters are actually famous because the writing is that good.

The final episode is incredible, though it will leave you hanging a bit. Overall, this is a definite buy recommendation!

Have fun!

SAY CHEESE!!!!
2008-10-16 - Courtney Cox is pretty convincing as Lucy Spiller the conniving managing editor of Dirt magazine. Frankly, it's a juicier role than that of Monica on Friends. But for all it's glitz, there's nothing really exciting about the series. Big stars, feeding big ego's and hiding big secrets trying to outwit the press at every step of the way. What's new about that? In the end, even though the writing is great, the premise is old. It's still all about stars and their crazy care free lives.