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TELL ME A STORY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Recycled from CBS All Access, Tell Me a Story – a “mature” interweaving of several fairy tales, told in modern day settings and with very dark variations – began showing on the CW last week. It offered very, very loose variations on The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel – and in two of those three storylines, there were dead bodies in the first installment alone. Tonight, Episode 2….

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THE SWAMP (2020) By David Bianculli

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is one of three lawmakers followed in this new documentary (fellow congressional members Thomas Massie and Ken Buck are the others), which looks at what it’s like to run for office before and during a pandemic – and what these Republicans are saying, and claiming, about their party’s concerns and promises regarding the draining of the so-called Washington “swamp.” For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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THE DICK CAVETT SHOW By David Bianculli

I've been writing Best Bets, in one form or another, since 1977. And only twice, in all that time, did anyone else provide Bets for me. The first was during a lengthy hospitalization. TVWW's late editor, Christy Slewinski, with an assist from editor Eric Gould, culled together the daily picks for me. The second occurred, well, during a lengthy hospitalization. You, our wonderful readers, jumped in with your recommendations in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter until Eric (what would TVWW d

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'THE SWAMP' EXPLAINS THE REALITIES AND DYSFUNCTION OF CONGRESS By David Hinckley

No matter where you stand ideologically, it's hard not to get frustrated over the seemingly glacial pace at which things get done – or don't get done – in Washington...

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HOW NETFLIX'S 'ATHLETE A' LED TO ATHLETE B, C, AND D, AND USHERED IN A NEW WAVE OF PROACTIVE DOCUMENTARIES By Alex Strachan

There are those documentaries that enlighten and inform, but only for a moment...Then there are those documentaries that have a lasting effect, programs that not only enlighten and inform but galvanize people to action...

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STORIES OF AFRICAN WOMEN: FROM CBS TO PBS By Mike Hughes

Stories of African immigrants are getting a rare spurt of TV attention...

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SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: RITA HAYWORTH By David Bianculli

Rita Hayworth is the focus of today’s “Summer Under the Stars” salute on TCM, and the salute begins at 6 a.m. ET with Renegade Ranger, a 1938 film that is her earliest one in this retrospective. But not the earliest: she already had appeared in more than two dozen movies by then. Today’s “Summer Under the Stars” Hayworth tribute continues through 4 a.m. Tuesday, when TCM shows 1972’s The Wrath of God, which was Hayworth&rsqu

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BOYZ N THE HOOD By David Bianculli

John Singleton wrote and directed this 1991 movie, a dazzling directorial debut that got powerful performances from the cast – and had powerful things to say about race. Those statements and observations are just as relevant today as they were almost 30 years ago, and that’s awful. The movie, however, is excellent. Laurence Fishburne is unforgettable as one of the most outspoken and observant residents of his ghetto Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles. And really good, too, are Ice

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ALMOST FAMOUS By David Bianculli

Cameron Crowe stuck the landing, and everything else, as the writer and director of this 2000 movie, which stars Patrick Fugit as William Miller, a laughably young and unsophisticated rock journalist for Rolling Stone – an alter ego stand-in for Crowe himself. Billy Crudup and Jason Lee are delightful as two members of the rock band William is chronicling, as are the young women playing the band’s groupies: Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, and, in a star-making turn as Penny Lane

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