Simon Helberg, who plays Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory, is tonight’s TCM guest programmer. Among the four movies he chooses, two of them star Peter Sellers, beginning with this one from 1968. Sellers reteams with Pink Panther director Blake Edwards, and in this comedy plays an Indian actor who disrupts a Hollywood party. At that party are leading lady Claudine Longet and two supporting players more familiar from television: future Love Boat captain Gavin MacLeod, and memorable Ton

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "JFK" By David Bianculli

Part 2 of 2. This concluding half of a new American Experience profile of John F. Kennedy covers more political stances and issues than the first half, but not with the clarity or completeness of certain other studies. Still, it’s an interesting documentary with a sober and respectable approach – neither sensationalistic nor sensational. For a full review, see David Sicilia’s TV Moneyland. Check local listings.

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DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB By David Bianculli

This is one of tonight’s movie choices by guest programmer Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory), and it’s an inspired one. Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War satire, made the same year and using the same basic plot as the deadly serious Fail-Safe, is bursting with superb comic performances – several of them coming from Peter Sellers, who plays several roles, and plays them all brilliantly.

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SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

Jax was angry enough when he thought his own mother (Katey Sagal) had attacked his wife and caused her miscarriage. Now how angry will he be, realizing that his wife faked not only the attack, but the miscarriage and the pregnancy?

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THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART By David Bianculli

Tonight, get ready to spend some time with Evening Joe: Tonight’s guest, venturing from his usual early-morning MSNBC roots, is Joe Scarborough.

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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

Could this year’s storyline proceed any more slowly? Apparently, yes, because tonight it goes backwards – to another flashback. (And since this whole series is a flashback, that seems a bit like piling on.) But this one’s worth the trip back down memory lane, because it makes room, once again, for a very special guest star: Bryan Cranston, in one of his first post-Breaking Bad TV series appearances.

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EYES WIDE SHUT By David Bianculli

IFC presents another Stanley Kubrick film, this one, from 1999, the last film he completed before he died. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, then married, star, in a story whose cryptic, dreamlike nature is a faithful reproduction of the original, obtuse source material: Arthur Schnitzler’s weird 1926 novella, Dream Story.

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JAWS By David Bianculli

This 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster usually is shown, and best enjoyed, at the start of summer. But here, it kicks off the latest TCM night devoted to movies from its imported Odyssey of Film documentary series. The latest episode, Number 11, isn’t televised until 2:30 a.m. ET, so it’s another one to set your recorders to catch. It’s called The 1970s and Onwards – Innovation in Popular Culture and Around the World, and includes not only segments on Jaws, but on The Exo

2013

Nov

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "JFK" By David Bianculli

Part 1 of 2. There are so many John F. Kennedy specials presented on TV this month, all tied to the 50th anniversary of his assassination, they seem duplicative as well as overly familiar. The best thing this particular four-hour documentary brings to the table is a stronger understanding of the source, intensity and treatment of JFK’s back injuries and other physical maladies. But it leaves out a lot that’s crucial to the understanding of the Kennedy clan’s power base and moti

2013

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CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1 By David Bianculli

Premiering on Veterans Day, this new documentary pulls you in from the opening seconds, and never lets go. Set at the country’s one solely dedicated Veterans Crisis Line, in upstate New York, it films responders as they pick up calls and speak to veterans, often trying to persuade them not to commit suicide. The callers are not identified, and we never hear their voices on the other end of the line – only the words of the Crisis Line workers, as they try to simultaneously gather info

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