It must be John Cusack’s night. Not only can he be seen here in 1989’s Say Anything, an iconic romance movie for the post-Boomer generation, but that film is followed, at 10 p.m. ET, by another Cusack classic: High Fidelity, Stephen Frears’ 2000 character study about a record-store owner who’s intense about his love for music and his relationships with women. (And let's not forget the aforementioned disaster flick, 2012.)

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BACK TO THE BEGINNING WITH CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR By David Bianculli

Part I of 2: Tonight and next Friday (if there is one), when ratings don’t matter, ABC deigns to devote chunks of prime-time to a news program that’s actually worthwhile – unlike, say, John Quinones’ worthless What Would You Do? hidden-camera “ethics show.” Amanpour visits ancient sites of importance to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, explains why, and explores their treatment and impact today.

2012

Dec

FRINGE By David Bianculli

A fresh episode this close to the holidays? Yes, because Fox can’t burn off these final hours of Fringe quickly enough, even though, currently, it’s the network’s best drama. In tonight’s episode, Walter (John Noble) and the others try to jog the memory of a Boy Observer to glean more clues about how to save, and change, the world. Is it just me, or does this series have more memory-loss issues than The Golden Girls?

2012

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CHRISTMAS WITH THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR By David Bianculli

Mormons haven’t made the news much since Election Day – but here’s a prime prime-time showcase: the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s annual music special of Christmas carols and sacred music, straight from Salt Lake City. Featured this year: actress Jane Seymour. Check local listings.

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SNL THROWBACK: 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE' LOST ENDING By Eric Gould

The gold-standard holiday film, It's a Wonderful Life, used to be wallpaper on Christmas Eve, running non-stop on multiple channels until NBC got the rights...Here's Dana Carvey and SNL's 1986 version of a lost ending that explains what happens when the Baileys discover that Old Man Potter (Lionel Barrymore) has the missing $8,000...Turns out, they go street on him.

2012

Dec

1979: CBS DEBUTS THE 'DALLAS' SPINOFF, 'KNOTS LANDING' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1979 marked the debut of the Dallas spinoff, Knots Landing...

2012

Dec

PROJECT NIM By David Bianculli

This 2011 documentary is as unsettling as it is fascinating. It’s about a chimpanzee who, in the Seventies, was raised almost as a human child, living in the upper West Side of New York City. Director James Marsh interviews many participants anew, and uses lots of “home movies,” to examine the rights, and wrongs, of such a social experiment.

2012

Dec

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO By David Bianculli

Now that Daniel Craig is back as Bond in Skyfall, here’s another opportunity to see him in a recent, very effective dramatic role, one that has him playing someone much more vulnerable. And with a much stronger partner: in this case, played by Rooney Mara, who shines, somewhat darkly, in the title role.

2012

Dec

BURN NOTICE By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: It’s back, for reasons I don’t quite understand, with a pre-Christmas double feature of fresh episodes. But here they are nonetheless – and a welcome diversion, when so many dramatic series are spending the rest of the year in reruns. Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar star.

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Dec

THE LEMON DROP KID By David Bianculli

This Bob Hope comedy takes place around Christmas, so it qualifies for TCM’s holiday screening month – but Bob Hope on film is a treat any time. He’s a clear comedy precursor to Woody Allen, and though he excels in buddy comedies with Bing Crosby, he more than holds his own here as well. In this 1951 comedy, he pays a man who runs afoul of a powerful gangster and has to scramble to repay some money. Lots of money, very quickly. Marilyn Maxwell co-stars as the gangster&rsq

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