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This series, in only a few weeks, has managed to gather some impressive momentum, both dramatically and in real life. It’s beginning to catch on and get attention from Internet bloggers – and meanwhile, its heroine is using her “borrowed” detective status to learn more about her situation, and her clones, while juggling, and faking, her private life – or lives.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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I laughed out loud so many times previewing this latest standup special, I lost count – but I remember that Louis C.K.’s set includes the best Grapes of Wrath jokes ever, as well as a look at the food chain that I never really considered before. Divorce, too. Don’t miss it. For a full review, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Louis C.K. shoots from the lip and keeps scoring. The beauty is the seeming ease with which he does this. And the knowledge of how hard it really is...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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"If Jonathan Winters is ever accused of anything, he's got the perfect alibi," Jack Paar once told his audience. "He was someone else at the time."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Round One of the 2013 Masters was a tale of high and low expectations. All eyes were on Tiger Woods, who has played well enough to reclaim his No. 1 world ranking. Yesterday, he played well enough to be tied for 13th place (with several others), shooting a 2-under-par 70. The two co-leaders, though, were only a few strokes lower, sitting at a 6-under-par 66. And one of those two co-leaders is a veteran golfer not used to such strong starts: Sergio Garcia. Today, Round Two.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman, adapting the book by Susan Orlean into this 2002 movie, turned it into much more than a story about love and flowers. In the hands of these collaborators, it’s now a treatise on the art of collaboration itself – starring Meryl Streep as novelist Susan Orlean, and Nicolas Cage as both screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother, Donald. Intrigued? Confused? Wait until you see the movie.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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This edition is called “On the Air,” and examines the role of radio, back when it was the dominant medium popularizing songs and songwriters. Artists covered include Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby and, pictured, a very young singing sensation named Baby Rose Marie. Many, many decades later, having dropped the “Baby” prefix, she would be featured on The Dick Van Dyke Show, playing comedy writer Sally Rogers. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Among the roundtable panelists on Maher’s show this week: David Stockman and Bob Costas, each of whom should get the opportunity to react to recent headlines in their respective specialties.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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SERIES PREMIERE: This new series reimagines Leonardo Da Vinci as a combination Indiana Jones, Robin Hood and Casanova – a dashing, defiant, imaginative Renaissance superhero. Not surprisingly, this series is created by David S. Goyer, coauthor of the Dark Knight movie trilogy and the imminent Superman reboot. The emphasis here is on the visuals, some of which fall flat: animating Da Vinci’s sketches as a type of CSI insert is an unnecessary waste. But while Tom Riley, as Da Vinci, ex
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Forget about those familiar portraits of an old, fulsomely bearded Da Vinci. Starz's Da Vinci's Demons presents Leonardo as a dashing, glib-tongued action hero with an eye for the ladies...