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Here’s the rest of my recent conversation with Mel Brooks, whose HBO special, Mel Brooks Strikes Back, is repeated Thursday at 8 p.m. ET — and whose boxed set is out now…

 
 
 
  
 
 
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This concert charity fundraiser, televised live from Madison Square Garden, features a ridiculously ripe list of scheduled performers, all of whom are donating time and talent to help victims of the Sandy superstorm that ravaged parts of the Northeast. New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are here, and Bon Jovi, as well as Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Dave Grohl, Kanye West, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, and the Wh
 
 
 
  
 
 
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It’s the 20th anniversary for the Hecks (Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn) in tonight’s new episode – and Frankie is wondering whether Mike is tiring of her after all these years. Heck, no!
 
 
 
  
 
 
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In tonight’s new episode, the softball team on which Manny (Rico Rodriguez) plays makes the league playoffs – which seems to bring out the worst in every family member, with the possible exception of poor Manny.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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The identity of the person who beat up Kiki (Hannah Tointon) continues to be a mystery – and it’s a mystery Bel (Romola Garai, pictured) is determined to solve in this new episode, much to the annoyance of Hector (Dominic West), whom some consider a prime suspect.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Here’s a reunion we didn’t expect when the season began: Dylan McDermott, who starred in Season 1 of American Horror Story but whose character died in the season finale, returns tonight in a new role, but the same face. Well, not exactly the same face. This time he’s Bloody Face.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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On this day in 1993, CBS presented a telefilm version of the Broadway musical, Gypsy, starring Cynthia Gibb in the title role, and Bette Midler as her domineering mother, Mama Rose...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Today in 1993, HBO premiered its remake of the campy classic Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, with Daryl Hannah as the title character...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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After tonight’s double-elimination episode, it’ll be down to the final two contestants. Next week: the finals. Funny thing: some of my college students are taking their finals today. Yet no one is facing elimination. Well, maybe one person. But I digress…
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai was Westernized, quite literally, in this 1960 Western about a group of rogue gunmen hired to protect a town from marauding bad guys. The original Japanese film is better, but this one is loaded with iconic tough guys: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach, and that’s just for starters.