If you're the sort of reader who is fascinated by footnotes and the intriguing little side stories they sometimes promise, you might enjoy My Psychedelic Love Story...

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KALEY CUOCO RETURNS TO TV IN A COMEDY FAR DARKER THAN HER PREVIOUS SHOWS: 'THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT' By David Hinckley

Back in the day when flight attendants were stewardesses (women only, of course), there was this unspoken male fantasy that "stews" led exotic lives of forbidden pleasure...Fortunately, we've pretty much moved past that...

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WHILE 'BLACK NARCISSUS' MAY HIT SOME STOCK THEMES, IT'S STILL AN INTRIGUING THRILLER By David Hinckley

It's 1934, and a bunch of nuns from India troop across part of the Himalayas to move into an old palace in a remote village where they plan to start a school for native children. What could possibly go wrong?...

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THE MANY SIDES OF 'BELUSHI' By David Hinckley

In 1984, two years after comedian John Belushi was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel cottage from a fatal mashup of heroin and cocaine, journalist Bob Woodward wrote Wired...

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A VOICE THAT DEMANDS – AND NEEDS – TO BE HEARD: 'I AM GRETA' By David Hinckley

The public visibility of socio-political campaigns surges and recedes, often with little relation to the importance of the issue they focus on...

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DAVID E. KELLEY'S 'BIG SKY' REMINDS US BROADCAST TV IS STILL OFFERING GREAT PROGRAMMING By David Hinckley

Memo to TV viewers: The broadcast networks are still in business...

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APPARENTLY, THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY IS A RERUN OF SORTS: 'THE REAGANS' By David Hinckley

In a perfect world, America's president would not be a performer, and the presidency would not be a role...

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AN ORDINARY TEEN LIVES AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE: 'ALEX RIDER' By David Hinckley

British spying somehow looks more exotic than American spying, a peculiarity underscored by a new British adaptation of the Alex Rider spy series...

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CHARLEY PRIDE TO RECEIVE THE WILLIE NELSON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD By David Hinckley

At some point during Wednesday's telecast of the 54^th annual Country Music Association Awards, the association will do something it has never done in its previous 53 years...

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HOW GERMANY LOST ITS DEMOCRACY: 'RISE OF THE NAZIS' ON PBS By David Hinckley

However you feel about the apparent outcome of last Tuesday's American presidential election, you should be chilled by a new three-part PBS docu-series that illustrates how easily democracy can die...

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