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2016
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The good news about the civil rights struggle, suggests a new PBS special, is that we’re winning it. The less good news is that it will never be won. The price of human dignity remains eternal vigilance...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
Shantel VanSanten has never been accused of shooting the president. But she’s still had to do some fighting to get to where she is today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
Last night, the Top 12 sang for the right to stay in the competition. Tonight, the results are announced – and there are a lot of talented singers this time around, so expect some disappointment after the national vote. Then again, disappointment after the national vote – that happened to many people a week ago Tuesday as well…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
Part 1 of 2. This new four-hour documentary series is from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and looks at the evolution of “black America” in the nearly 50 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. According to very recent headlines, that evolution continues, and is no less problematic, complex, and at times inspirational or volatile. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
On Election Night, when it was becoming increasingly apparent that Donald Trump would win his campaign, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews evoked Robert Redford’s The Candidate character of politician Bill McKay, in the 1972 film The Candidate, with his stunned final question, “What do we do now?” And now here’s the movie itself, scheduled by TCM way in advance of what happened a week ago.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: If you were a Downton Abbey fan (and if not, why not?), you probably enjoyed the brittle Britishness of  Lady Mary, played so flintily, but ultimately so flirtingly, by Michelle Dockery. Well, for her new series, Dockery throws all that British period costume stuff aside, and plays a very modern role, in modern dress and times: a Southern ex-con who still works as a con woman. In the first 20 minutes alone, she gets to play a blonde (shown here), a brunette, and a redhead &
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
The Profit in Cuba, a special edition of Marcus Lemonis’s CNBC show about making money through commerce, calls to mind the old joke about two friends who are ambushed by a hungry bear...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
Part 2 of 5. Tonight’s installment is devoted to the development of multitrack recording – and it’s here, among other places, that producer George Martin made such an impact with the recordings of the Beatles. Piecing together “Strawberry Fields Together” from not only different takes, but different speeds? That was but one trick among hundreds – and a lot of them will be discussed, and demonstrated, tonight. For a full TV review, see David Hinckley’s Al
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
If they gave Emmys to the actor who most aggressively avoided stereotyping, Michelle Dockery could be writing her acceptance speech right now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
14
 
 
National Geographic’s ambitious six-part series Mars presents a full-throttle, all-in vision of how we Earthlings might actually, seriously, really open a colony on the Red Planet...