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2018
Oct
13
 
 
The Milwaukee Brewers won Game 1 of this year’s National League pennant race last night, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 and holding back a late rally by the Dodgers. Today is Game 2.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
13
 
 
Game 1 of the American League pennant race features the Houston Astros battling the Boston Red Sox. One of these teams has had an astounding season this year, and the other team is the Astros.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
13
 
 
Tonight Saturday Night Live features a musical guest who was one of the show’s earliest guests when the series launched in 1975: Paul Simon (pictured back then), still performing after all these years. And tonight’s host has a long association with SNL creator Lorne Michaels as well: He’s Seth Meyers, former “Weekend Update” host and SNL head writer.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
Both lavish and languid, the first three installments of Amazon Prime’s The Romanoffs are mostly bereft of the snap, pop, and sizzle of Mad Men. Their overriding creative force is one and the same — fastidious Matthew Weiner...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
We can use a good documentary wherein old-school feminists talk about why “women’s issues” mattered then and matter now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
If you’re dying for your Halloween-season horror to begin, check out Hulu’s Light As a Feather. It’s got lots of dying...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
Amazon paid a whole lot of money to snag The Romanoffs, Matthew Weiner’s first project since Mad Men...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Matt Weiner’s first TV series since Mad Men is a daringly different concept for a television series. Different, but not unprecedented – because it aims to revive a TV genre that has gained traction in recent years, but not in this pure a sense. His new show, The Romanoffs, is an anthology series. Not one of the exciting, modern one-season stand-alone stories presented under an umbrella title, like FX’s Fargo or HBO’s True Detective – but, instead, a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
Game 1 of baseball’s NLCS pits the Los Angeles Dodgers, which defeated the Atlanta Braves, against the Milwaukee Brewers, which beat the Colorado Rockies. Those. Two teams, the Dodgers and the Brewers, now fight for their league’s pennant – and the chance to advance to the 2018 World Series.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
This movie was made in 1972, and starred Robert Redford as a political candidate who didn’t think he had any chance of winning, so he dropped the usual Washingtonian facades and began speaking plainly, even at times outrageously. Redford’s character, Bill McKay, was. Running for U.S. Senate, not the presidency – but there’s no way to watch this movie, all these years later, without feeling some odd twinges of déjà vu.