The resume of Ginger Rogers is loaded with movies about Broadway babes and hopeful stars and starlets – but though this 1954 film shares a similar plot, it’s not a comedy or a musical, but a drama. In this case, a future Broadway star has that future taken away, by murder. Van Heflin, George Raft, Gene Tierney co-star.

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Dec

ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli

Perhaps because NBC has announced plans to shift this newsmagazine to a less popular Friday night time slot next year, Rock Center is filling tonight's show with a rerun. But it's a good one -- a recap of President Obama's successful targeting of Osama bin Laden. With the film Zero Dark Thirty about to hit theaters nationwide, it's a well-timed primer. And the Julian Fellows Downton Abbey feature I wrote about earlier is available on the Rock Center website.

2012

Dec

MY SO-CALLED LIFE: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli

This ABC series lasted only one season in 1994-95, but what a season it was! Claire Danes portrayed 15-year-old Angela Chase, a teenager trying to cope, in a brilliant family drama that presented life from her point of view...

2012

Dec

QUEEN MARATHON By David Bianculli

After showing Roots in its entirety on Monday, and Roots: The Next Generations yesterday, BET wraps up the sprawling Alex Haley story of his ancestors by presenting this 1993 miniseries. It explores the paternal branches of Haley’s family tree – and gives Halle Berry an early, significant starring role (the titular one) as Haley’s grandmother. Co-stars include Ossie Davis, Ann-Margret, Tim Daly and, in an early role, Frances Conroy, currently serving as the angel of deat on FX&

2012

Dec

GASLAND By David Bianculli

What the frak? This 2010 Josh Fox documentary takes a clear and harsh look at “fracking,” the still-controversial method of extracting natural gas from deep beneath the ground, via a hydraulic drilling process involving water, pressure and chemicals. It’s a cocktail that’s proven lucrative for such companies as Halliburton – and questionable for those worried about the environment. One homeowner, whose local ground water has been compromised by the fracking process,

2012

Dec

FORTY GUNS By David Bianculli

Barbra Stanwyck Month continues on TCM, and the prime-time offerings tonight are from the Fifties. Forty Guns, a frontier saga from 1957 where she plays a tough ranch owner, starts the evening at 8 pm. ET – and also serves as a hint at what would come on TV a decade later, when she starred in The Big Valley. Next, at 9:30 pm. ET, comes 1956’s The Maverick Queen, in which Stanwyck stars as a tough saloonkeeper. (Notice the pattern?) But set your DVRs for 4 a.m. ET, because that&

2012

Dec

THE 35TH ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS By David Bianculli

David Letterman and Dustin Hoffman are two of the honorees at this year’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, which always arrives in the last weeks of the year – and just as invariably ends up as one of the year’s best entertainment specials. The artists honored in 2012 also include blues great Buddy Guy, ballerina Natalia Makarova, and rock group Led Zeppelin. The eclecticism is part of the charm here, as is the enthusiasm and talent of the people who honor the honorees. That roll

2012

Dec

THE HOUR By David Bianculli

Bel and Freddie (Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw) get so deep into their latest journalistic story that a source is found dead, leaving Bel determined to stop the investigation – and Freddie equally determined to keep going.

2012

Dec

1997: SEINFELD ANNOUNCES THE END OF 'SEINFELD' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1997, Jerry Seinfeld announced the end of his hit NBC comedy series, Seinfeld...

2012

Dec

1981: CHUCK WOOLERY'S LAST APPEARANCE ON 'WHEEL OF FORTUNE' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1981, Chuck Woolery made his final appearance as host of The Wheel of Fortune...

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