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2020
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11
 
 
Long before the phrase “Chinese flu” gave some folks the green light to harass Asian Americans, a lot of other folks had been doing it anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
11
 
 
As Mike Nakayama tells it, enlisting in the military “was not a deeply thought-out decision.” Soon he was in Vietnam, heading into the jungle to induce firefights...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
11
 
 
On this day in 1997, CBS presented the first installment of the miniseries Mario Puzo's The Last Don...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
This day in 1983 marked the final telecast of the Happy Days spinoff, Laverne & Shirley, on ABC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
HBO’s new miniseries I Know This Much Is True might cheer you up, but only by comparison...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
SPECIAL: The first volume of this Disney Family Sing-Along snuck up on me, but I’m prepared to recommend this one. It’s like one of those increasingly familiar socially distanced specials, in which celebrities check in from their respective homes to entertain – this time by singing, and leading viewers in song. Except that most of the songs here are familiar Disney tunes, and many of the on-screen participants are very familiar faces from the ever-expanding Disney emp
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
SPECIAL: When I said these socially distanced entertainment specials were “increasingly familiar,” I wasn’t exaggerating. In fact, tonight there are two of them competing for viewers in the same time slot. This one, a charity benefit for Feeding America, is co-hosted by organizer Bryon Allen, Tiffany Haddish, Kenan Thompson, and Billy Crystal. Pre-recorded comedy bits are provided by, among others, Kevin Hart, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, and George Lopez. Other part
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
There’s a special musical treat tucked into this new episode of The Simpsons. Among the week’s guest stars are, or is, Weezer. And if you ever wondered how the theme to The Simpsons would sound if played by Weezer, the answer arrives tonight. And the answer, to borrow a phrase from Larry David, is: “Pretty, pretty good…”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
This is the penultimate episode of this WWII drama, and things don’t look especially good in Europe at the moment: In this installment, Paris falls. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
 
 
Last week, Killing Eve delighted me – by finally, if briefly, reuniting Villanelle and Eve on a massively emotional and physical bus ride (physical in the sense of beating each other up, as well as embracing). But also, it delighted me by opening with Henry Hall and His Orchestra’s “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” a song I first heard, and loved, when it was used in the soundtrack of the BBC miniseries The Singing Detective.