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2012
Aug
24
 
 
Citizens United, the same organization that successfully challenged existing campaign finance laws and opened political races up to the monetary excesses of Super PACs, has a new trick up its conservative sleeve: It’s produced a film, The Hope and the Change, that will be unveiled officially at next week’s Republican National Convention, then go into a planned limited theatrical release. Previous slickly produced biographical films, at both the Republican and Democratic conventions,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 
Chicago Mayor Tom Kane (played by Kelsey Grammer) is not only back, he’s back in the empire-building business. This week, he adds some new faces to his inner circle – well, one new face, and one familiar one.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 
This is the original 1975 documentary, not the 2009 HBO telemovie in which Drew Barrymore gives an amazing performance as Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, and Jesssica Lange an equally impressive one as Edie’s mother, Edith Bouvier Beale. They share a name, a rich lineage, and a now-decrepit house – and in this Maysles Brothers documentary, the real women are even more astoundingly hypnotic than the actresses who eventually played them.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 
This has got to be good – not only because of what’s happening in the news this week, but because Maher’s guests include Arianna Huffington and D.L. Hughley.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 

This year’s presidential political conventions are unprecedented in at least two unfortunate respects: the inclusion of a political film that’s negative, not positive, and the decision, by the broadcast networks, to show fewer convention hours than ever before…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 
Not that many years ago, the chances of Harvey Keitel doing a Lifetime movie might have been less than Don Ho being voted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 
The Newsroom has been starkly polarized with professional and amateur commentators either loving or hating what they’ve watched of the program so far...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
 
 
This day in 1955 marked the last telecast of the CBS sitcom My Little Margie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
23
 
 
MIDSEASON FINALE: I hate bowing to USA’s nomenclature and calling this a “midseason finale” – all it’s really doing is taking a break for a little bit before returning with new episodes, a mini-hiatus that, here and everywhere else, used to go mostly unnoticed and definitely unnamed. And perhaps tonight’s episode will end in a mid-cliffhanger. No matter: It surely will end on a dramatic note, since last week’s installment ended with the second time this
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
23
 
 
Tonight’s hour, keyed to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is devoted entirely to Mormons, with stories ranging from Brian Williams’ account of the history of that religion to a story about Clark Johnsen (seen at left), an original cast member of the ensemble of Broadway’s hit musical The Book of Mormon. An actor who is a Mormon.