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To all those who watched the first three episodes of Mrs. America when the brilliantly acted miniseries premiered last week, dramatizing the fight for (and against) the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, be aware: Episode 4 dropped today, and focuses on Tracey Ullman as pioneer feminist Betty Friedan. From now on, new episodes roll out weekly.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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Tonight’s guest for Rather’s one-hour interview is Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry – who, in her 1980s salad days, had a major impact not only on MTV, but on hip-hop. Yes, it’s true. Listen and learn, because I’m sure they’ll cover it, “Rapture”-ously.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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This 1980 movie musical is rarely televised, so take advantage of the opportunity. It’s quite an oddity. A live-action adaptation of a cartoon or comic is nothing rare in Hollywood terms, but one directed by Robert Altman? With music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson? With Robin Williams in the title role? This eye-popping Popeye also stars Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, Ray Walston as Popeye’s Pappy, and Paul Dooley as Wimpy. And look hard enough, and closely enough, and you&rsquo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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In tonight’s episode, the vampire pack heads out at night to feed – but, as an experiment, on snacks, served at a neighborhood Super Bowl party, their first. “You are all such strong women!” marvels Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) in her heavy accent, while sharing drinks and gossip with the human wives. “How did you end up married to such boiled potatoes?”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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In this week’s new episode, “The Hall,” Hank Azaria’s Brockmire finally, finally, gets his shot at being inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. But in doing so, he has to confront not only his troubled and colorful past – but his equally colorful wax likeness.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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This 1982 film – a bizarre, bold favorite of mine – has a title that comes from a Hopi Indian phrase and translates, roughly, to “life out of balance.” It comes from a time when extreme time-lapse photography was relatively new, and the purpose of director Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi was to capture images from unexpected angles at unusual speeds. Urban traffic grids were shot from above and sped up greatly, making the lights from cars look like scurryin
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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22
 
 
Last month, Jane Goodall – who will be the star of many Earth Day programs Wednesday – received some jolting news: She would be relaxing at home for a while...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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22
 
 
Let’s think of it as an Earth Day Film Festival. On Wednesday, our TVs and other devices will be filled with documentaries and other programming, some hopeful and some bleak, for the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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Things have rarely gone smoothly on Fox’s soapy and boisterous Empire, and that now includes its sort-of final episode...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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21
 
 
SPECIAL: This musical salute to Prince, who died four years ago today, was taped January 28, when artists could still get together in the same venue, and people could still sit shoulder to shoulder and watch them. Renditions of Prince songs will be played by, among others, Morris Day and The Time, Sheila E., The Revolution, Usher, Mavis Staples, John Legend, Chris Martin, H.E.R., The Foo Fighters, Common, and Earth, Wind & Fire. The program is hosted by Maya Rudolph, who, in this special CBS