Rita Hayworth is the focus of today’s “Summer Under the Stars” salute on TCM, and the salute begins at 6 a.m. ET with Renegade Ranger, a 1938 film that is her earliest one in this retrospective. But not the earliest: she already had appeared in more than two dozen movies by then. Today’s “Summer Under the Stars” Hayworth tribute continues through 4 a.m. Tuesday, when TCM shows 1972’s The Wrath of God, which was Hayworth&rsqu

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BOYZ N THE HOOD By David Bianculli

John Singleton wrote and directed this 1991 movie, a dazzling directorial debut that got powerful performances from the cast – and had powerful things to say about race. Those statements and observations are just as relevant today as they were almost 30 years ago, and that’s awful. The movie, however, is excellent. Laurence Fishburne is unforgettable as one of the most outspoken and observant residents of his ghetto Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles. And really good, too, are Ice

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ALMOST FAMOUS By David Bianculli

Cameron Crowe stuck the landing, and everything else, as the writer and director of this 2000 movie, which stars Patrick Fugit as William Miller, a laughably young and unsophisticated rock journalist for Rolling Stone – an alter ego stand-in for Crowe himself. Billy Crudup and Jason Lee are delightful as two members of the rock band William is chronicling, as are the young women playing the band’s groupies: Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, and, in a star-making turn as Penny Lane

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AXIOS By David Bianculli

This week’s Axios installment is the full-length conversation, recorded last week and shown in pieces on MSNBC and elsewhere, in which Axios reporter Jonathan Swan asked some very good questions, in a one-on-one interview, of President Donald Trump.

2020

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HISTORY CHANNEL RECALLS THE NUCLEAR STRIKES AGAINST JAPAN THAT ENDED WORLD WAR II By David Hinckley

Seventy-five years ago next Thursday, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States B-29 Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ended World War II, and started a moral debate...

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THE ODD COUPLE MARATHON By David Bianculli

I promised more details of today’s portion of the Odd Couple marathon on Decades, and here’s the biggest thing you have to know: Tune in at 4:30 p.m. ET, because that’s when Decades televises the 1972 “Password” episode of The Odd Couple. It’s hilariously funny, and Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Password host Allen Ludden and his wife, Betty White, all have great bits of business to do while playing a round of that classic game show

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PERRY MASON By David Bianculli

Things are winding down for HBO’s Sunday night series. For Perry Mason, this is Episode 7 out of eight installments – and the episode in which Perry, played by Matthew Rhys, gets to flex his just-developing courtroom muscles in the art of cross-examination.

2020

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I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES FINALE: Last week’s installment of this HBO documentary series showed how, after the unexpected death of Michelle McNamara, her husband Patton Oswalt, and her friends and colleagues, kept both her book and her criminal investigations alive. Tonight, we witness what McNamara herself did not live to see: authorities using DNA evidence to identify and arrest, after so many decades, the Golden State Killer, who had assaulted and killed so many victims while evading captu

2020

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

I may as well just start reprinting the same sentences every Sunday here. What a week. Please, John Oliver, explain it to me, get me through it – and, if you can, make me laugh in the process.

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Aug

2007: PAULA ZAHN LEAVES CNN By TV WW

This day in 2007 marked the last telecast of CNN's prime-time news program, Paula Zahn Now, and the anchor's final day with the cable news channel...

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