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2020
Aug
24
 
 
This is DEFINITELY a recommendation: Ten years ago, one of our TVWW contributors, Tom Brinkmoeller, wrote a column that remains, I believe, our most commented-upon blog in our 13-year history. It was about the lamentable fact that Gary David Goldberg’s Brooklyn Bridge, the outstanding 1991 period comedy set in 1950s Brooklyn, not only was nowhere in syndication or cable, but had no then-current plans for home-video release on DVD. That was a decade ago, as you can read in To
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
24
 
 
Now we're at the mid-point of the political-convention season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
Olivia de Havilland, who died last month at age 104, is the subject of today’s “Summer Under the Stars” salute on TCM. She was born in 1916, and appeared in her first film, Alibi Ike, in 1935. That same year, she also played Hermia in a film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and starred opposite Errol Flynn in Captain Blood. By 1938, she was starring opposite Flynn again, playing Maid Marian in 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Ho
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
Comedian Jordan Peele carved out an entirely new career path for himself as the writer-director of this brilliant 2017 thriller – a movie as commendable for its casting choices as for its inventive, allegorical story. Daniel Kaluuya is perfect as the young man who somewhat reluctantly visits his white girlfriend's family for a weekend vacation. Allison Williams is the girlfriend, Bradley Whitfield and Catherine Keener play her parents, and they’re all outstanding in very multilayered
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
Last week, The Circus returned – with its correspondents traveling a bit less, eating in separate restaurants or open spaces and talking by phone, but still covering a very active week in politics. And this past week, the Democrats held their socially distanced convention, which the team will cover and analyze, while looking ahead to this week’s Republican counterpart.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
This second episode has an awful lot going on within its one-hour running time – and while keeping all those plot twists secret, I have to mention the music that opens and closes the episode, because it gobsmacked me in such a positive way. When Jurnee Smollett’s Letitia dives into the closet of posh clothes available to her in the Braithwhite mansion, she does so to the tune of “Movin’ On Up” from The Jeffersons – and at the end of the hou
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
Showing up between conventions, John Oliver gets to look back at the Democrats and ahead at the Republicans. I’m keenly interested in both perspectives…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
For any Hollywood star, this may be a record: After making her most famous film, Olivia de Havilland lived another 81 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
23
 
 
On this day in 1992, CBS introduced the drama 2000 Malibu Road...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
22
 
 
On this day in 1988, NBC debuted Later, a half-hour talk show created by Dick Ebersol to follow Late Night with David Letterman...