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2014
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From 2007: Drew Barrymore is guest host for this week’s Vintage presentation of Saturday Night Live. Watch for the sketch, starring Maya Rudolph, about Donatella Versace’s Super Bowl party, which features Fred Armisen as Prince, Barrymore and Seth Myers as Posh Spice and David Beckham, and Horatio Sanz as Elton John.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
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Among Graham’s guests tonight: Catherine Tate, who tells a very funny story about repeatedly wetting herself during school as a child, and Shirley Bassey, who doesn’t.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
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Two return appearances on tonight’s new edition of Saturday Night Live: The guest host is Woody Harrelson, and the music guest is Kendrick Lamar.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
14
 
 
The well-known, and daunting, statistic relevant to this entrepreneurial series is that an estimated 90 percent of all new businesses fail in their first year. Perhaps an acute awareness of that is what’s behind tonight’s episode, a cheery celebration at having reached episode number 100 in the cutthroat world of network television. Tonight, for the first time on this series, all six sharks will be swimming in the same TV pool simultaneously. They will not, however, be equipped with
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
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This 1957 Ingmar Bergman drama is a bleak, ponderous, yet ultimately haunting and perceptive study of the human condition, told by focusing on a very limited set of characters in a narrative containing more thoughts than action. In other words, it’s a classic Ingmar Bergman film. And a classic, period.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
14
 
 
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is the opening guest on tonight’s show, and his take on the new makeup of Capitol Hill, and his own future political plans, should prove quite interesting – Maher is a much more pointed interviewer than many people presume. And the other guests on this installment are noteworthy, too, and include the always outspoken Andrew Sullivan and the always entertaining (Well, except on Fox’s Mulaney, but that’s not his fault) Martin Short.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
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Jack Nicholson was an actor ablaze in this 1970 character study, playing his role of the talented but tormented pianist (hence the title) with the energy and ferocity of a caged tiger. The scene of him playing the piano in the back of a truck as it rolls down the highway is memorable – but no scene is more iconic than the one in which he rebels against the arbitrary rules at a highway diner by demonstrating a very novel way to place his food order the way he wants it. “I’ll hav
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
14
 
 
Earlier this week, you saw Dave Grohl performing live on stage at HBO’s Concert for Valor. Tonight, he performs again – a new song, inspired by the things he heard and saw while tracing the history of modern music in Los Angeles. Stops along the way include The Doors, NWA, Joan Jett and the Runaways and The Eagles, so this installment of Grohl’s very personal music appreciation course is wide-ranging indeed.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
14
 
 
It’s a sad state of affairs in State of Affairs for CIA presidential briefer Charleston “Charlie” Tucker. Her fiancé died one year ago during a special ops mission gone bad in Kabul. She was also present and saw it happen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
14
 
 
On this day in 1998, CBS introduced Murphy Brown...