We all know about binge-viewing. It’s the business model that drives streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, in the same way — not so long ago — it was the driving force behind DVD box sets...

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CUBA’S MARIELA CASTRO – THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER – IS TRYING TO TEACH TOLERANCE By David Hinckley

The promise that Marxism would level the playing field of human dignity never quite worked out for the LGBTQ community in Cuba. Until they found a friend in a high place: Mariela Castro, a member of the National Assembly and also, oh yes, the daughter of President Raul Castro...

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Another live show, another night in which the remaining contestants sing to survive – and the talent pool has been so deep this cycle, there are only one or two eliminations left before the cuts really begin to hurt.

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SUPERGIRL SUPERHERO CROSSOVER By David Bianculli

With Greg Berlanti producing or supervising so many of CW’s DC Comics series and spinoffs at the moment, someone had the bright idea – or, at least, the cross-promotional cash-in concept – of connecting all the series into a same-week, every-show story. So there are four stops on the CW superhero route to complete this particular week’s story line – starting tonight with and on Supergirl. Tomorrow, the story continues on The Flash, then moves to Wednesday on Arrow,

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GREY GARDENS By David Bianculli

TCM’s November salute to documentaries has saved some of the best for some of the best for last, with three outstanding documentary films presented late night tonight. At 11 p.m. ET, the stay-up-or-record-it action begins with 1975’s Grey Gardens, the fascinating visit with the eccentric Bouvier mother-daughter recluses Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale. This particular documentary already has inspired two inspired offshoots: the Grey Gardens docud

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CRUMB By David Bianculli

Then there’s this 1994 documentary, about the eccentric underground comic artist R. Crumb. His story, too, figures in part of another artistic offshoot: Crumb turns out to be instrumental in inspiring the career of even more eccentric underground comic writer Harvey Pekar, whose story was told so brilliantly in 2003’s American Splendor, with Paul Giamatti as Pekar and James Urbaniak as Crumb.

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BURDEN OF DREAMS By David Bianculli

And finally, one final set of eccentrics: actor Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, who clashed famously and formidably while making Herzog’s epic 1982 movie Fitzcarraldo. That movie was a based-on-fact film about an obsessed megalomaniac intent on bringing opera to the jungles of Brazil. This documentary, by Les Blank, is about the equally obsessed megalomania behind the making of that film. It features short but telling appearances by Mick Jagger and Jason Robards, the movie’s

2016

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THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli

If it’s still considered the holiday weekend, and even if it’s not, here’s a Sunday night movie ready-made to have you gather the entire family and enjoy. Or, if circumstances warrant, for you to watch alone and enjoy, also. This 1939 classic children’s movie is not just for children – but, like The Princess Bride, its enduring popularity proves that.

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

So now we’re seeing a new division in the ranks: Those who, for the moment, are accepting the demands of the brutal regime ruling Alexandria, and those who are working covertly, like an underground resistance, to make their move and reclaim their independence. One of the resistance leaders, though even his more subservient dad doesn’t know it yet? Carl.

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WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

This is episode nine of Westworld, so we’re getting near the end of the first season. Don’t expect more answers than cliffhangers as this show approaches its hiatus point, however. That’s not HBO’s way.

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