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2020
Oct
24
 
 
Last night, the Los Angeles Dodgers made it look easy. Not just its victory against the Tampa Bay Rays, which it won 6-2, but the entire game of baseball. Tonight, with the Dodgers enjoying a 2-1 edge in this year’s World Series: Game 4.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
24
 
 
Two different versions of Jane Austen’s Emma, that beloved romance novel and comedy of manners, were made the same year in 1996 – one for the movies, the other for British television. The TV version, starring Kate Beckinsale, was excellent. So was the big-screen version, in which the title character was portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow. And now, almost a quarter-century later, there’s another Emma with which to contend. This one stars Anya Taylor-Joy, who’
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
24
 
 
This week’s guest host is Adele, and the musical guest is H.E.R. Adele and H.E.R. are pictured here with Kate McKinnon. Grammatically, it should be Adele and S.H.E., but I’m more concerned about Adele here. What does the poor woman have to do to qualify as the musical guest?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
On this day in 2000, Fox launched the David E. Kelley drama, Boston Public...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
What a month for Sacha Baron Cohen. First he co-stars as Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, and now he returns as his most famous cinematic character, Borat, in a movie sequel to that 2006 comedy classic, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Director Larry Charles, who helped shape that original Borat movie, is not here for this one – he’s replaced by Jason Woliner – but
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Also out as a new album, Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You is an intimate look at Springsteen’s creative process, with and without his E Street Band. Letter to You is his first full-length album with the E Street Band in six years, and this one was recorded, in its entirety, in five days, in Springsteen’s home studio at Colts Neck, NJ. Live in the room, with almost no overdubs. And included among the 12 new songs: “If I Was the Priest
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
Bill Murray and director Sofia Coppola, who teamed so well on both Lost in Translation and of Netflix’s A Very Murray Christmas, collaborate again for this new project, a movie released simultaneously in theaters and, today, on Apple TV+. Murray plays Felix, the impulsive and eccentric father of Laura, who’s played by Rashida Jones. She suspects her husband, Dean (Marlon Wayans), of cheating on her – and Felix decides to lead his daughter on a surveillance m
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This limited series follows a young girl in an orphanage in the 1950s, who discovers the game of chess – and also discovers that her skill at that game may be good enough to lead her life on an entirely new path. One move at a time. Anya Taylor-Joy stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
Tonight at 8 ET on Fox: Game 3. So far, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays have won one game each.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
23
 
 
Actually, it’s Alexandra Pelosi doing most of the shooting here, traveling across America for a 12-month period that just ended weeks ago. The filmmaking daughter of Nancy Pelosi, in this documentary, points her cameras at people taking pictures with their selfies – but also interviews people, on both sides of this country’s gaping political and cultural chasm, to discuss what they think and feel, and why they do. And the places she visits, during her real-long travelogue, aren