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2013
Jun
13
 
 
Game 1 was close. Game 2 was a blowout by the Miami Heat. Game 3 was a blowout by the San Antonio Spurs. What to expect from tonight’s Game 4? Perhaps the unexpected. Definitely, both teams coming at each other hard.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
13
 
 
For this 100th episode, Burn Notice presents a special flashback: going back 10 years in its characters’ lives, to show the first time Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) encountered Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), then an IRA activist. This does not fall under the category of “meet cute.” And Donovan is behind the camera as well: He directed tonight’s episode.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
13
 
 
Two fresh episodes are presented as a double feature tonight, and both have celebrities worth tuning in to see how they handle the host’s loose-cannon antics. On nthe first show, the guests include Jennifer Lopez. On the second, which begins at 11 p.m. ET, the guests include Dan Stevens, formerly of Downton Abbey before his character was so suddenly killed off, and Hayden Panettiere.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
13
 
 
Even though it’s inspired by true stories, and by a secret beach house used as a headquarters for undercover federal agents, there’s not much to this new USA series. I note it here only because, for some odd reason, it gave me flashbacks of a Sixties show I’d long forgotten, which also had a waterfront locale and a group of good-looking protagonists crammed into tight living quarters: Surfside 6, a 1960-62 drama that starred Troy Donahue as one of several private eyes living on
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
13
 
 
"This is dedicated to anyone that has a birthday, during the entire year," Sir Paul McCartney told The Colbert Report viewers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
12
 
 
This is the original Tron, from 1982, not the sequel. And while the plot, like the entire movie, hasn't improved with time, the state of state-of-the-art computer graphics certainly has. Watching Tron more than 30 years later is like watching the computer-game equivalent of a silent film. We've come a long way, baby - and so has Jeff Bridges, who stars in this goofy-looking Disney movie about a man trapped in a computer game.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
12
 
 
Another of my so-called “spider-web movies.” The Shawshank Redemption gets me every time, and won’t let me go. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are fantastic as the convicts who form a slow but sure bond – and that scene with the music over the loudspeaker? One of the best scenes Stephen King ever wrote – and that’s saying something.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Dr. Hank (Mark Feuerstein) has recovered from last season’s emergency brain surgery, and he’s back for a new season. What’s most noteworthy, though, is who’s joining this series for the first time: Frances Conroy, late of Six Feet Under and, most recently, a pair of creepy star turns on American Horror Story.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: John Stamos joins the cast this season – but Callie Thorne, as the star, remains the major reason to watch. Though honestly, I wish she were starring in a better show. After her work on Rescue Me, Necessary Roughness seems painfully diluted.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
12
 
 
My favorite installments of this show are when Stephen Colbert comes face to face with a truly stellar talent, and manages to crack the veneer and get attention with some outrageous bit of mid-interview comedy business. He did it, very memorably, with Stephen Sondheim, and Aaron Sorkin, and Maurice Sendak – and tonight, I hope he does it again. Colbert’s guest, for tonight’s expanded one-hour edition: Paul McCartney.