After a week off, Bill Maher returns with a new live hour of TV talk – featuring such guests, this time, as former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner and, shown here, film director (and, now, hitchhiking author) John Waters. Both of them have been on Real Time before, and been very entertainingly candid.

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Jun

FOR 'MURDER IN THE FIRST' CREATOR STEVEN BOCHCO, LESS IS MORE -- FEWER HOURS PER SEASON, THAT IS By Donna J. Plesh

Creating a drama series for television is nothing new for Steven Bochco. He’s been doing it for decades — Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, LA Law and Murder One, to name but a few. Now he’s back, with TNT's Murder in the First...

2014

Jun

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN By David Bianculli

This 1976 movie arrived when I was a graduate school student, studying both journalism and education. After the excitement and idealism brilliantly presented in this film version of the Washington Post Watergate reporting by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, journalism won – at least for a few decades. Alan J. Pakula directed, William Goldman wrote the screenplay, and Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman played the roles of the reporters, who did all this digging without either cellphones or c

2014

Jun

NBA FINALS By David Bianculli

The Miami Heat are here again – and so are the San Antonio Spurs, in a rematch of last year’s battle, which the Heat won in seven games. This time, Miami is going for a three-peat – and if that’s accomplished, it’ll be the first time since the 2002 Los Angeles Lakers.

2014

Jun

THE SIXTIES: "WORLD ON THE BRINK" By David Bianculli

Part 2. I don’t have to offer any disclaimers this time, because I’m not in this hour. It’s called World on the Brink, and looks at the white-hot events of the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis, with President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, staring down the growling Soviet dogs of war.

2014

Jun

MARON By David Bianculli

It’s a tough week for poor Mark Maron: His girlfriend is leaving for good, and his cat Boomer is missing. Guess which one ends up bothering him more.

2014

Jun

THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART By David Bianculli

Tom Cruise has been here before (pictured), to promote his most recent movie, Oblivion. That’s when we found out Tom Cruise and Jon Stewart were the same age. Now Cruise is back, to promote Edge of Tomorrow, and who knows what we’ll learn this time.

2014

Jun

CMT MUSIC AWARDS By David Bianculli

Music awards shows, from MTV’s concoctions up to and including the Grammys, are much more about the live performances than the actual awards. This CMT home-grown country music awards show is no exception, and lures more than enough talent each year to make it worth tuning in to sample. Tonight, for example, the live show is scheduled to include a duet with Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood, performing “Somethin’ Bad.” Expect somethin’ good.

2014

Jun

THE PROFESSIONAL By David Bianculli

Natalie Portman plays a 12-year-old, and was a 12-year-old, in Luc Besson’s gripping 1994 thriller that stars Jean Reno as a professional hit man who decides to protect a young girl whose family was brutally murdered. Gary Oldman plays one of the very best – as in the worst – villains in his career-long rogue’s gallery. And Portman, even at such a young age, is remarkable, while the film itself is equally remarkable for not being at all exploitive.

2014

Jun

SHE By David Bianculli

It’s good to be the Queen. Ursula Andress stars in this unintentionally campy 1965 version of the H. Rider Haggard novel, playing the immortal East African ruler known as She Who Must Be Obeyed. (Yes, Rumpole of the Bailey fans, this is where Rumpole got the playful nickname for his wife.) And while the Queen’s demeanor is cold, her wardrobe is hot – hot enough to be remembered, and singled out as a Best Bet, almost 50 years later. Sigh.

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