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2017
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Hisham Tawfiq admits he didn’t originally want his bodyguard character Dembe Zuma on The Blacklist to be the strong, silent type...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
20
 
 
It’s been 20 years since Howard Stern starred, quite effectively, as a younger version of himself in this 1997 biographical film comedy, based on his bestseller. Betty Thomas directs the movie, and Mary McCormack stars as his wife Alison, whose loving relationship with shock-jock radio personality Stern forms the core of the film. In real life, they divorced in 2001. In Private Parts, the scene-stealer, in addition to Stern himself, is Paul Giamatti, in an early breakout role as WNBC radio
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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SERIES RETURN: After a hiatus, and a time-slot grab by inferior spinoff Blacklist: The Redemption, the original article, starring James Spader, returns – with a doubleheader. For a feature story, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: This new series aims to trace and point out some of the connections between music and real life – singling out some of the songs that reflected or propelled the events of the time. The topic for this opening hour is Martin Luther King, Jr., from the rise of the civil rights movement to King’s assassination and beyond. In that context, Soundtracks makes room for everything from James Brown’s “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)&rd
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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20
 
 
With this week’s first taste of Season 3 of FX’s Fargo, Noah Hawley has now made three delectable variations on the Coen Brothers’ original theme. But tonight on Starz, you can revisit their 1996 original, starring Frances McDormand as a Minnesota police chief investigating a particularly bizarre and brutal murder case. Hawley’s TV miniseries versions of Fargo have been superb… but the original film, co-starring William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare, wa
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
 
 
The Sharknado-like fish storm from Season 1 of Fargo and Season 2’s eventually pivotal flying saucers might be slightly less swervy than the outlandish/cartoonish first on-camera killing in Season 3’s extended opening episode...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
 
 
There are no accidents in the tragicomic events that shape each season of FX’s Fargo, and it’s probably also no accident that each year the show delivers a female star off whom we cannot take our eyes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
 
 
This documentary is about the recently discovered escape tunnel, dug by Jewish prisoners scheduled for execution by Nazis, in the Lithuanian city of Vilna. Consider it, if you must (but you shouldn’t), the site of one of those recently cited “Holocaust centers.” Check local listings. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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19
 
 
In tonight’s episode, President Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) has to force his hand to get his way assembling a new U.S. Supreme Court. Sound familiar?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 3 for Noah Hawley’s reimagining of the Coen Brothers Fargo ethos – the third time he’s started from scratch and introduced a new setting, plot, and cast of characters. And for the third time, based on tonight’s kickoff episode, he’s struck gold yet again. Ewan McGregor, in a dual role as very different brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy, is amazingly good, twice. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as Ray’s ex-con girlfriend and aspiring co