Except for Steven Spielberg’s 1971 made-for-TV movie Duel, which was released theatrically overseas, this 1974 film was Spielberg’s big-screen debut. Goldie Hawn stars as a fugitive from the law, in an adventure drama that eventually leads to an elaborately staged chase sequences -- and not at high speed, either.

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CBS JFK 50TH ANNIVERSARY STREAMING COVERAGE By David Bianculli

Here’s an astoundingly resonant use of a network’s flagship news website. Beginning this afternoon, and lasting for four days, the CBS News website will devote itself to a minute-by-minute replay of its coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination and aftermath 50 years ago. My only complaint is that the replay doesn’t begin with the network’s very first bulletin, but that’s a mere completist’s quibble, given the rare opportunity to see so much of this in the

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NBC NEWS SPECIAL: “WHERE WERE YOU: THE DAY JFK DIED?” By David Bianculli

The title of this NBC News special is a tipoff that, for once, a news network organization isn’t pandering for younger viewers at the expense of older ones. This doesn’t mean, that if you weren’t alive 50 years ago, you shouldn’t be watching – quite the contrary. But it also means that those of us who were old enough to remember may have been stunned, the last few days, to realize how little we’ve forgotten about those truly tragic, life-changing events. Here,

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AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME By David Bianculli

Fifty years ago, the day after the JFK assassination, British television transmitted the premiere episode of a little science fiction show called Doctor Who. Tomorrow, in a telecast shown at the same time globally, Doctor Who celebrates its golden anniversary with a long-awaited brand new episode. Meanwhile, tonight, BBC America presents a new telemovie which dramatizes the creation of the Doctor Who TV franchise. David Bradley stars as William Hartnell, who played the first in a long series of

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JFK: IN HIS OWN WORDS By David Bianculli

For a TV critic with decades of viewing behind him, the JFK assassination coverage brings with it additional memories of previous specials keyed to previous JFK anniversaries. This documentary, for example, premiered in 1988, on the 25th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. It remains, in my estimation, one of the best, because it captures the public (and sometimes private) speaker unfiltered, quoting him as a candidate, and as President, to let his words speak for themselves.

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

A good, talkative bunch is scheduled to show up tonight, including Paul Begala, Dan Savage and, from Treme, Wendell Pierce.

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KENNEDY: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli

Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it seems like the appropriate time to add, to our all-time TVWW Seal of Approval list, this NBC miniseries, broadcast 20 years after that fateful event...

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CBSNEWS.COM REPLAYS THE JFK TRAGEDY IN REAL TIME By P.J. Bednarski

Little notice is being paid to CBSNews.com’s plans: they will begin streaming the same TV coverage CBS aired, also at that exact moment, in 1963, through the Monday funeral, just as it happened on TV 50 years ago...

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ON NBC JFK SPECIAL, BROKAW ASKS 'WHERE WERE YOU?' - ON 'FRESH AIR,' I GIVE MY ANSWER By David Bianculli

Friday, on the exact 50^th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, NBC’s Tom Brokaw asks Where Were You? That same day, on NPR’s Fresh Air, I give my answer…

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THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new installment is a Thanksgiving episode, which ought to be enjoyable enough. But sometime during the festivities, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) learns, for the first time, that Penny’s drunken Las Vegas wedding years ago, to an old boyfriend, is still valid – and apparently, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) learns it for the first time, too.

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