“Jobs! Jobs! Gee, don’t it get ya?” That’s the producer of a proposed new Broadway musical, set during the depression, imagining a closing number in which returning war veterans walk a breadline in the rain, coming home from battle to find unemployment and financial hard times. That turns out to be “Remember My Forgotten Man,” the remarkable closing number, sung by Joan Blondell, of this Depression-era Busby Berkeley movie musical as well – and 80 years

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DANCING ON THE EDGE By David Bianculli

Episode 4. In tonight’s episode, the link, and the secrets, between Masterson the wealthy American (John Goodman) and his protégé Julian (Tom Hughes) become more evident – and more dangerous. It’s all part of a complex murder mystery, centered around the falsely accused bandleader Louis Lester (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and, this week, getting even more complex and sinister.

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THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

I’m not quite sure how Norton has managed to super-size his already enjoyable talk show this season, but it’s been ridiculous, and ridiculously entertaining. What makes his talk show unique? For one thing, and it’s no small thing, he invites most of his guests out at the very start, so that, recently, Sir Paul McCartney sat next to Katy Perry for the entire show. And tonight, the seatmates include another Sir, as well as a Dame: Elton John and Judi Dench.

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LIFE OF PI By David Bianculli

Director Ang Lee’s amazingly filmed fable receives its TV premiere tonight, and the bigger screen you can use to watch it, the better. What a visual treat… and what an unpredictable story.

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INSIDE NAT GEO'S PRESS EVENT FOR ITS JFK OFFERINGS By Ed Martin

Last month, I stood at the grave of Lee Harvey Oswald, on what would have been his 74^th birthday, with the actor who portrays him...

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FULL METAL JACKET By David Bianculli

Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 movie is one of those intense character studies of his – The Shining is another – that manages to capture, perfectly and frighteningly, a man’s slow descent into homicidal madness. In this case, it’s Marine recruit Vincent D’Onofrio, whose performance in this film remains, despite everything he’s accomplished since, his career best.

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JFK: THE FINAL HOURS By David Bianculli

On the last speech he gave, in the hours before being assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy uttered the following sadly prophetic statement: “We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.” By devoting itself to the 24-hour period prior to the shooting in Dallas, this two-hour National Geographic special captures many telling details, and unearths and interviews many people whose paths crossed those of John and Jac

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THE NEIGHBORS By David Bianculli

This is a warning, not a recommendation. Tonight’s plot has the inappropriate aliens of this silly ABC sitcom, along with one of their earthly neighbors, showing up on an episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, requiring the judges of that show to act and react as players in a sitcom, rather than as themselves. It dilutes the brand of the ABC reality series, which follows immediately, without necessarily helping The Neighbors. Disney and ABC are very, very big on corporate and artistic synergy,

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GREAT PERFORMANCES: “STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S ‘COMPANY’ WITH THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC By David Bianculli

When this Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical premiered on Broadway in 1970, it changed my life a little. I saw it that season, just after it opened, as part of a trip hosted by the Glee-like Contemporary Music program at Nova High School in Fort Lauderdale. And even though I was a naïve teenager at the time, something about Sondheim’s lyrics and music, and Furth’s sardonic, romantically cyncical comic vignettes, hit me in the gut, and gave me a lifelong love of Broadway theat

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

After last week’s all-star lineup, this week’s seems positively understated. But it does include Anthony Weiner – and even if his observations and answers don’t prove too candid or entertaining, Maher’s questions might.

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