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2012
Jul
27
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN By David Bianculli
 
 
The Coen brothers did it again – made a hypnotically watchable and unpredictable movie – with this 2007 thriller about a quiet killer (played by Javier Bardem, pictured, who won an Oscar) and the people in his path, who include Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson. Also, watch for Kelly Macdonald, who went from here to HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
27
32 SPORTS, 302 EVENTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS By Christy Slewinski
 
 
If you haven't already signed up to access NBC's live coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, now's the time to do it. Here's why — and how...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
27
SO LONG, 'MR. TROLOLO' By Eric Gould
 
 
The unsuspecting internet sensation, Russian singer Eduard Khil, passed away recently at the age of 77. His 1976 Soviet TV performance of the American cowboy song "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home" went viral on YouTube in 2009 and has had over 14 million hits since...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
27
ABC'S 'DANCING' ALL-STARS MEET THE PRESS By Bill Brioux
 
 
ABC had seven of the 12 competitors for Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars before critics Friday at press tour — but only one got the lion's share of the questions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
27
GET READY FOR 5,535 HOURS OF OLYMPICS COVERAGE By Gerald Jordan
 
 
The network that has broadcast the summer Olympics since 1988 is about to launch an ambitious plan to show every event in the upcoming London Olympic Games in real time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
'CBS THIS MORNING' NAMES NEW HOST By Ed Bark
 
 
CBS This Morning taps chief White House Correspondent Norah O'Donnell to replace co-host Erica Hill...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JIM BELL SETS STAGE FOR SUMMER GAMES By Ed Bark
 
 
Given the enormous technical challenges ahead for NBC, you'd like to think that Thursday's teleconference with Olympics executive producer Jim Bell will be remembered as only an irksome glitch and not a bad omen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
ON THE SET OF ABC'S 'REVENGE' By Bill Brioux
 
 
TVWW correspondent Bill Brioux pays a visit to the set of ABC's Revenge...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
OPEN WATER By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s a bold claim, but it’s true: This low-budget 2003 film is the scariest, most engrossing aquatic thriller since Jaws. Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis play a couple who go out on a scuba boat while on vacation in a foreign land – and the boat accidentally leaves them behind, stranded in the open ocean in waters occupied by, among other creatures, sharks. The sound and images in the movie are hauntingly naturalistic, putting you right there in the water – even when you
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
MARTY By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight is TCM’s memorial tribute to the late Ernest Borgnine, an evening that begins at 8 p.m. ET with a biographical Private Screenings special of the famed character actor. That’s followed by this 1955 production of Marty (pictured), the Paddy Chayefsky story about a lonely butcher – the movie version, not the original live TV drama, which starred Rod Steiger. That’s followed at 10:45 p.m. ET by 1953’s From Here to Eternity – and set your recorders for 1 a.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
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By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley