Eight decades before September 11, another terrorist struck an unnervingly similar blow at what was considered another symbol of America’s evil economic tyranny: Wall Street...

2018

Feb

EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF NUCLEAR WASTE WITH 'ATOMIC HOMEFRONT' By David Hinckley

Think of HBO’s Atomic Homefront as Erin Brockovich without the happy ending...

2018

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'HOMELAND' CONTINUES ITS FOCUS A BIT CLOSER TO HOME By David Hinckley

Finely attuned, as always, to the mood of the moment, this season’s Homeland is putting America first...

2018

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'HERE AND NOW' TRIES TOO HARD BUT MAYBE THAT'S THE POINT By David Hinckley

If you hired a mad scientist to write This Is Us, you might end up with something like HBO’s new Here and Now...

2018

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'ERIC CLAPTON: LIFE IN 12 BARS' HIGHLIGHTS THE JOYS AND THE HEARTBREAKS OF SLOWHAND By David Hinckley

Considering that he’s widely revered as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll guitarists ever, Eric Clapton has maintained a remarkably low celebrity profile over the last half century...

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A FIND FROM THE ICE AGE OFFERS US A VIEW OF THE 'FIRST FACE OF AMERICA' By David Hinckley

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, best known to casual fans as the site of the good-time beach resort Cancun, turns out to harbor a raft of surprising clues about deeper matters like the history of humankind...

2018

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'THE GILDED AGE' WAS NOT SO GOLDEN By David Hinckley

The new PBS documentary The Gilded Age starts off exactly where the title seems to point: toward rich people in expensive clothes savoring sumptuous food. Soon, however, it digs into a different and far less glamorous side...

2018

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JOHN MAHONEY 1940 – 2018 By David Hinckley

The best sitcoms are never purely star vehicles...

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WITH 'MARJORIE PRIME,' OVATION PRESENTS A MOVING FILM ON OUR COMMON LIFE EXPERIENCE By David Hinckley

So here’s the deal: Even if you’re not going to exercise the option, you should know there is at least one show on television Sunday evening that is not the Super Bowl...

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EXAMINING THE MANY EDGES OF THE OPIOID CRISIS WITH SHOWTIME'S 'THE TRADE' By David Hinckley

Numerous documentaries, on television and elsewhere, have tackled elements of the drug epidemic. Showtime’s new The Trade attempts to connect all the dots...

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