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Mary Jane Kennedy could fit most stereotypes of white, Southern privilege...And she has become, in her 60s, a gay-rights spokeswoman...

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1955: 'MR. PEEPERS' ENDS ITS THREE-SEASON RUN By David Bianculli

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1953: 'AMOS 'N ANDY' ENDS ITS RUN ON CBS By David Bianculli

Amos 'n' Andy ended its two-season run on CBS on this day in 1953...

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NATIONAL THEATRE AT HOME: "THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III" By David Bianculli

LIMITED PREMIERE: The latest one-week streaming premiere from National Theatre at Home is the first production recorded from a staging outside of London. Working with another British performing troupe, the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, today London’s National Theatre presents its latest At Home fundraising special, available on its website and YouTube channel for the next seven days. It’s a telecast of the stage version of the 2018 production of Alan Bennett’s

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DON'T! By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Ryan Reynolds is one of the producers of this new ABC summer series, which is one of the more playful (and, one hopes, watchable) attempts by the network to pad out its hot-months prime-time schedule with cheap quiz and game show fare. And surprisingly, it’s an original idea, not a concept adapted from a crazily visual TV show from South Korea. (I’m talking to you, The Masked Singer.) The concept behind Don’t is to build elaborate tasks for

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MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

This latest and final season of this ABC Marvel universe drama has spent its first few episodes back in the pre-WWII 1930s. In doing so, it’s found a clever way to bring back occasional guest star Patton Oswalt, pictured, in a new role (or maybe, given the time-travel riff, an old one?). And tonight, it may take even better advantage of that particular time frame, by getting closer to the people around the origin of Captain America. But it better move fast. Next week’s episode, based

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GIDGET By David Bianculli

Six years before Sally Field portrayed the titular California surfer girl in ABC’s Gidget, Sandra Dee originated the role in this 1959 movie. Look at her, she’s Sandra Dee! And her co-stars include James Darren as Moondoggie, Cliff Robertson as The Big Kahuna, and Yvonne Craig, eight years before playing Batgirl on Batman, as Nan.

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