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TVWW ARCHIVE

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2008
Oct
31
WATCH THIS: WATERGATE AND ARAB MUSIC By Diane Werts
 
 
Politics and entertainment meet in two must-see ways this weekend. Watergate becomes a Hollywood drama, and Arab musicians cross cultural boundaries to join forces with American rockers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
30
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: 'PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE,' 'YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN' By Diane Werts
 
 
Fright flicks and creepy comedy are all over the tube for Halloween... Young Frankenstein. Phantom of the Paradise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
27
FLICK PICKS: 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE' By Diane Werts
 
 
The way politics is today, the way world conflicts are evolving, the way we take everything so seeeriously, there's something to be said for finding ways to make your salient point with humor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
26
FLICK PICKS: CHANEY'S GONNA GET YOU By Diane Werts
 
 
The movies' original frightmeisters strut their stuff tonight on Turner Classic Movies. And 80 years later, it still holds up...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
23
WATCH THIS: 'FLINTSTONES' MARATHON By Diane Werts
 
 
So many channels, so little capacity. That's why many cable systems still aren't offering channels that have been around for awhile. Like 'Boomerang', the "classic" Cartoon Network spinoff that's been around since 2000, yet still reaches relatively few cable homes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
22
OH, NO: WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TUNE INTO WORLD SERIES GAMES UNTIL AT LEAST 8:30 P.M. ET By Diane Werts
 
 
Is there nothing that cannot be somehow politicized in this wacky presidential election year? Could we please stop treating momentous current events like some handy celebreality/amusement/promotional platform?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
21
WEIRD & WILD: 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER' ON TCM By Diane Werts
 
 
Look up "weird" in the dictionary, and you might well find the 1962 flick The World's Greatest Sinner, a bizarre odyssey of anointedness in rock music, religion and politics that unreels Friday night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
17
WEIRD & WILD: PAUL NEWMAN HITS THE ICE FOR 'OLD-TIME HOCKEY!' By Diane Werts
 
 
One more Paul Newman post, and I'm done. (For now, anyhow.) The late actor won Oscars, made millions for charity, and did much more to be remembered for. But I'm willing to wager he'll live longest in fans' hearts for one performance that snooty cineastes might be too inclined to discount...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
15
FLICK PICKS: TCM GANGSTERAMA! By Diane Werts
 
 
James Cagney has always been my favorite actor, but it took Orson Welles to explain why. Hearing the auteur admire him in the 1988 profile With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film, I finally understood Cagney's visceral appeal in cerebral terms...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Oct
13
WEIRD & WILD: TART 'CHOCOLATE NEWS' By Diane Werts
 
 
If only David Alan Grier had been on the case on-air for weeks already. But maybe it's best he waited till now to unleash his new Comedy Central lampoon Chocolate News...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley