Now here's why I love Turner Classic Movies. Besides no cuts and no commercials, TCM does quality stack-ups like the two don't-touch-that-dial nights coming up this weekend. Saturday night starts with "Cool Hand Luke", where hard-labor convict Paul Newman has a '60s "failure to communicate" with drawling jailer Strother Martin...

2011

Mar

SINGING THE PRAISES OF 'TROUBADOURS' ON PBS 'AMERICAN MASTERS' By David Bianculli

troubadours-my-top.jpgWe've just been sucked into one of those infernal March public broadcasting pledge-break whirlpools, so Wednesday's PBS showing of Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter (8 pm. ET; check local listings) may be on at a different time, even if a different night, where you live. But please find it, because this latest American Masters special is a pleasure to hear AND see...

2011

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CHARLIE SHEEN, 'IN HIS OWN WORDS' - AND, ON ABC, WITH HIS OWN ROPE By David Bianculli

Hollywood's latest loose-cannon, volatile celebrity is the subject of tonight's hastily and eagerly scheduled ABC 20/20 special (10 pm. ET), titled Charlie Sheen: In His Own Words. ABC may as well have called it Charlie Sheen: With His Own Rope, because, based on excerpts aired already on Good Morning America, the star of Two and a Half Men hangs himself with almost every new, rambling, often frightening utterance...

2011

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IMAGINING A VERY SPECIAL FINAL EPISODE OF 'TWO AND A HALF MEN' By P.J. Bednarski

The Charlie Sheen show, now playing on almost every channel, is just another in a series of self-deprecating screams that once would have happened in private, and now happen in front of everybody around the world. The fall of Charlie Sheen was predictable. Vegas should have odds on his death by now. And yet...

2011

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83D ANNUAL OSCAR TELECAST REACTIONS: WHY SO NEGATIVE? By Ed Martin

While watching ABC's telecast of the 83d Annual Academy Awards Sunday night, you would never guess, if you didn't already know, that it was one of the two most important events on the broadcast calendar. There was nothing particularly big or important or exciting about it; nothing dramatic, nothing suspenseful, nothing spectacular and nothing to warrant ferocious blogging...

2011

Mar

PBS 'TROUBADOURS' IS A SCENIC TOUR THROUGH A MAGICAL MUSICAL ERA By Tom Brinkmoeller

"Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor and the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter," the newest "American Masters" masterwork, premieres Wednesday on PBS (8 p.m. ET -- check local listings). Consuming its contents, for many fans of that music, will be as revelatory as they are enjoyable...

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