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2013
Aug
8
 
 
The 95th PGA Championship, a contest won handily last year by Rory McIlroy, begins today, with both McIlroy and Tiger Woods, among others, determined to find the recently missing parts of their game and fight for final-day contention. Among the tee times for today’s opening round: Woods at 8:35 a.m. ET (before TNT begins coverage), McIlroy (pictured) at 1:25 p.m. ET, and Phil Mickelson at 1:45 ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 
This 1929 version of the biblical epic (the famous 1959 version of which was shown by TCM Monday night) is presented this evening, and it’s a really fascinating compare-and-contrast exercise. You’d think, for example, there would be no way that a silent movie could capture the kinetic excitement of the chariot race as grandly as the later film – but you’d be wrong. Plenty of animals, and humans, I suspect, were harmed in the making of this picture.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 
Midway through Discovery’s annual Shark Week, and they finally serve up a title worthy of singular mention. It’s a fun name for a nature program, even if it doesn’t make much sense. (What’s next? Sharkmageddon?) This new one-hour Sharkpocalypse special, by the way, is preceded at 8 p.m. ET by Spawn of Jaws: Sharktweeto, and followed at 10 p.m. ET by Alien Sharks of the Deep.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 
CW’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? may be the worst at cramming its own network celebrities into a game show for easy cross-promotion, but this NBC entry, at least tonight, gives it a run for its money in the shameless promotion department. Guests include Today weather guy Al Roker and America’s Got Talent host Nick Cannon. But you also get, thank goodness, Jason Alexander, who shows up ready to play, and with more hair than usual.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 
“Is it safe? Is it safe?” I’m not saying. But I will say that this 1976 thriller, starring Dustin Hoffman as a distance runner and college student who runs afoul of some very evil people, has an interrogation scene with Laurence Olivier that I’ve never, ever forgotten. Especially when I visit the dentist’s office.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 
BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- It seems we just can’t get enough Downton Abbey on PBS. That wildly popular series will return for its fourth season on Jan. 5, 2014...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 

Larry David may or may not be re-upping for another season of Curb Your Enthusiasm – but for now, he’s starring in a new HBO movie that’s pure David. In other words, pure hilarity…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
8
 
 
Sherlock, the character and the TV series, is returning from the dead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
7
 
 
What a collection of talents, behind the scenes and on screen. Muppets creator Jim Henson directed this 1986 fantasy movie and co-wrote the story. Monty Python member Terry Jones wrote the screenplay. George Lucas is one of the executive producers. And on screen, Dabid Bowie stars as the Goblin King, with a very young Jennifer Connelly as the teen who gets transported into the Goblin’s eerie world after wishing her little brother would disappear. An underrated, very entertaining film, dark
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
7
 
 
This 1975 film, directed by Sidney Lumet, is based on a true story – a bank robbery whose “masterminds” were so unusual, with such unusual motives, that it gives the entire movie an excitingly unpredictable feel. So does the on-location footage in Brooklyn, where, when bank robber Al Pacino incites the curious crowd of onlookers by ad libbing the repeated scream of “Attica!,” the city itself becomes a major character. Co-stars include John Cazale, and Charles Durnin