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Four families are celebrating the return of their loved ones this week, while another, the family of hostage Bob Levinson, continues to wait after more than eight years. Dan Levinson, one of the seven children of the former FBI agent, says his father has been abandoned by the Obama administration. "It's worrisome, where my dad falls on the priority list," Dan, 30, tells People. "He has given decades of his life to serving his country." Dan wonders if his father was dropped entirely from the Iran negotiations. "If that's true … he's the soldier left behind on the battlefield. What does that...

Four families are celebrating the return of their loved ones this week, while another, the family of hostage Bob Levinson, continues to wait after more than eight years. Dan Levinson, one of the seven children of the former FBI agent, says his father has been abandoned by the Obama Administration. "It's worrisome, where my dad falls on the priority list," Dan, 30, tells People. "He has given decades of his life to serving his country." Dan wonders if his father was dropped entirely from the Iran negotiations. "If that's true … he's the soldier left behind on the battlefield. What does that...

Matthew Weiner has always been more comfortable talking about the past of “Mad Men” rather than letting anyone know anything about the future — even when that future is only seven episodes long, starting Sunday, April 5 at 10 p.m. Having spent enough time over the years asking Weiner questions that he responded to with a very guarded, “Well, you’ve got to watch,” I knew enough to focus as much on the past as possible when we recently sat down for an hour-long interview to discuss the end of his Emmy-winning baby. We talked about the last days of production, looked back all the way to the show’s origins when Weiner was a staff writer on “Becker” looking for a different kind of career in television, the show’s long acting Emmy drought, and more. And I made it almost to the end without a single “You’ve got to watch.

An American missing in Iran for seven years turned out to be an ex-fbi agent working in secret for rogue CIA operatives. No, that’s not the plot of the latest episode of Showtime’s “Homeland” – that’s a true story that the Associated Press broke last Thursday about disavowed spy Bob Levinson. But the series has focused on the contentious relationship between the United States and Iran in its third season, which concludes on Sunday. And incidents like the one revealed this week hammer home the tenuous nature of diplomatic relations with the Middle Eastern country, which have recently reopened for the.