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2014
Jul
2
 
 
Here’s a guest appearance I wouldn’t have predicted: Tonight on Hot in Cleveland, one of the guest stars, playing a bizarre billionaire owner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is Chevy Chase. The newspaper is real, but not the owner as depicted here…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
2
 
 
Team USA may have lost to Belgium in their latest World Cup effort but the man of the hour (or, in this case, of the two-hour game) was goalkeeper Tim Howard who played the match of his life..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
1
 
 
Today’s the day for U.S. viewers to tune in big time to the World Cup – and if they arrive early enough to watch this first game, against Argentina vs. Switzerland, they’ll witness one of the most celebrated players in the modern game. So far in this year’s World Cup alone, Argentina’s Lionel Messi – the gifted forward from Barcelona – has scored four goals in three games. Argentina, atop Group F, notched three victories in a dominant run, while Switzerl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
1
 
 
If this is Tuesday, it must be Belgium vs. USA. And it is. Belgium won all three of its games to take the top slot in Group H, while the U.S. backed into the knockout round by losing its final game, after a draw and a win, but still finishing ahead of other teams thanks to goal differential. Today, none of that matters, and draws are not a factor: in this round, teams play until they win or lose – and if they play aggressively from the start, rather than defensively, the U.S. team has a ch
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
1
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: There may be some sort of failing in my character, that I laugh so hard at some of the inappropriate meanderings served up alongside with the actual historical tidbits on this show. Then again, even before I was of drinking age, I laughed at Foster Brooks – so there you go. Among the treats on tonight’s Season 2 premiere: Jordan Peele, playing scientist Percy Julian.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
1
 
 
Last week’s season premiere was almost all exposition and flashbacks (pictured). Beginning tonight, Howard Gordon and company move their story forward – and we get to learn where they really want to take their tale of Middle Eastern intrigue and cross-cultural family ties.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
1
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Comic Nathan Fielder returns for Season 2 of this oddly endearing show, in which he descends upon people who run various businesses and persuades them to accept, or at least consider, his unorthodox “makeover” schemes for improvement. Among his suggestions tonight is one that I actually think has at least a few shades of brilliance: Nathan’s bright idea is to have an auto mechanic hooked up to a lie detector test while giving repair estimates. That’s a gr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
1
 
 
If Louie is unlike any TV series, ever, that’s not to say it’s the first series to toss one or more TV conventions to the winds, or to expand the boundaries. It has precedents in daring...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
30
 
 
As the Fourth of July approaches, a new documentary looks at the activism – then and now – of 99 year-old Grace Lee Boggs – writer, philosopher and voice for change...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
30
 
 
TCM is filling its daytime schedule with a last-minute mini-marathon of five films starring Eli Wallach, who died last week at age 98. First up, at 9 a.m. ET, is 1964’s Kisses for My President, a comedy that’s also fascinating from an historical perspective. It stars Fred MacMurray as the husband of a politician (Polly Bergen) who becomes the first female President of the United States. In a movie made 50 years ago. Wallach plays a Central American dictator named Valdez, in a movie m