'Smash' recap: Ellis stirs up drama with a capital 'D'

Last week, I mentioned that the “Glee” bug had bit “Smash” right in the cortex, and that hasn’t changed. In fact, this week, we got no showtunes at all; the one original song, “Touch Me,” was written by OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, a club banger more indebted to Gaga than Gershwin. While I saw some hope for the theater diehards last week with Bernadette Peters’ cameo, this...