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2018
Apr
7
 
 
In making films about actual people “we don’t make a replica, but we try to see if we can come close to a sense of the character,” Pacino said...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
7
 
 
You may be seeing double in the return of Trading Spaces (TLC, Saturday at 8 p.m. ET), the granddaddy of the home improvement shows which is returning a decade after it went off the air...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
7
 
 
The good news for Tiger Woods fans is that he made the cut, and will be around to play for the weekend in today's Round 3 – a feat he’s accomplished, over the years in all but one of 21 appearances at the Masters. The bad news: His score for Friday was a three-over-par 75, his ninth straight round over par in a major tournament. The leader after two rounds? Patrick Reed, who shot a six-under-par 66 on Friday. This is only his fifth Masters, and only his third time to make the cut for
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
7
 
 
Al Pacino is back on HBO, and back with Barry Levinson as director, for a docudrama about two very tumultuous weeks in the life of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. The drama centers on the widespread controversy about Paterno assistant Jerry Sandusky, charged with dozens of accounts of child molestation and rape over a lengthy period. Pacino is subtle and excellent, and the story is structured to avoid showing much of Sandusky at all, much less any of his alleged criminal behavior. This ma
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
7
 
 
Tonight’s guest host for this new edition is Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman. Musical guest: Cardi B.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
6
 
 
The fourth installment of David Letterman’s Netflix talk show features Jay-Z, with a side trip to record producer Rick Rubin and a recording session with Madison Ryann Ward, one of the artists Rubin is producing. The conversational chunks with Jay-Z are really intriguing, and Jay-Z has a shrewd way of responding to certain questions – by reshaping the question and throwing it back at his host. When Letterman asks Jay-Z which of his popular hip-hop peers just can’t rap, Jay-Z sm
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
6
 
 
It’s a team effort now, S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.Y.D.R.A., working together for the first time, against something bigger and worse than them both. (No, it’s not Y.I.C.U.F.O., which was the name of the flying-saucer investigation group I organized in high school, and for which I successfully was recognized by the Air Force’s similarly obsessed Project Blue Book. That acronym stood for the Youth Investigations Committee on Unidentified Flying Objects, and I established it as a very sne
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
6
 
 
Every time I teach Film History and Appreciation, covering the early development of cinema up to and including Citizen Kane, I show this 1932 Tod Browning movie, made only a handful of years after the first full-length sound film. It’s a beautiful horror film about a circus sideshow troupe, in which the abnormal performers gathered for the amusement of audiences – the midgets, pinheads, Siamese twins and others – are the sweet and loving heroes, and the conniving human circus p
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
6
 
 
I won’t list all of tonight’s guests, but will point out three – and taken together, they’d be unlikely to appear together in almost any other context, off or on TV. The announced guests for tonight’s show include Louie Anderson, Eliot Spitzer, and (pictured) Geraldo Rivera.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
5
 
 
Imagine Sofia Vergara’s character in Modern Family repeating “Tiger, Tiger, Tiger” in rapid-fire succession and you’ll get a clear picture of the excitement this week on the Golf Channel and in and around August National Golf Club...