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2015
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Tonight’s guest host is Reese Witherspoon...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
8
 
 
Around the web, over Twitter and Facebook and, I’m sure, other social networks, women expressed outrage at the news that The Mindy Project had been cancelled despite an exceptionally good third season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
8
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star in this new Netflix comedy series, co-created by Marta Kauffmann of Friends. The entirety of Season 1 is available today. They play wives of long-standing law partners, played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, who surprise their respective spouses at dinner with the joint announcement that a) they're asking for a divorce, b) they're gay, and c) they're in love with one another and intend to get married as a male couple. Both families have grown c
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
8
 
 
From 1969, one of my very favorite movies: Paul Newman and Robert Redford as charming outlaws in the Old West. Written by William Goldman and directed by George Roy Hill, it's basically a perfect motion picture. No matter how many times I've seen it, I'm always happy, and tuned in, whenever it shows up on TV.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
8
 
 
TCM's month-long salute to Orson Welles continues with this re-edited version of Welles' thriller about political and personal corruption in a small Mexican town. Welles co-stars, co-wrote, and directed this film in 1958, and this version was re-edited 40 years later.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
8
 
 
Tonight's guests: Billy Crystal and Erin Brockovich. Ought to be a good one...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
8
 
 
Another entry in TCM's salute to Orson Welles, this 1948 thriller casts him as a man unduly, but understandably, attracted to another man's wife -- played by the sultry Rita Hayworth, who, in a figurative sense, is playing Welles' smitten character as well. She's playing him, all right -- in the best, most evil film noir tradition.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
7
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Last weeks episode, which featured Laurie Metcalf and Christine Baranski as the respective mothers of Sheldon and Leonard, was strong enough to have been a season finale. But the Big Bang writers had one more explosion up their sleeves: Tonight, Sheldon, in order to deflect attention from his five-year “anniversary” with Amy, pushes Leonard and Penny to settle on a date for their wedding.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
7
 
 
This is a good episode with which to give this series a second chance: Josh (Josh Gad) thinks he has a great shot at a movie role, and he isn’t exactly circumspect about his chances or his behavior. Billy (Billy Crystal), of course, doesn’t take this new attitude well – and he wasn’t even too fond of Josh’s old attitude. I like the performers here, and just keep hoping for the writing to get a little sharper.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
May
7
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Louie takes daughter Jane (Ursula Parker) to the doctor. I love when Jane gets a scene now and then: When she pulled out her violin for an unexpected duet with Louie’s non-English-speaking girlfriend, it turned out to be my favorite moment yet from the series – and the direction, and Louie’s reactions, all added to the immediacy and believability of the moment. In the doctor’s office, who knows what can happen?