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2014
Jan
25
 
 
In this week’s episode, An Idiot Abroad reluctant traveler Karl Pilkington travels some more – in this specific instance, to examine some global approaches to marriage, and to re-examine his own thoughts on the topic. (Thoughts which, since he’s been living with the same woman, without marrying her, for 20 years now, may be somewhat intractable.)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
25
 
 
Jonah Hill returns to guest host for the third time, hot on the heels of his co-starring role in Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street. Musical guest: Bastille.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
24
 
 
I couldn’t think of anyone better, or more charismatic, to carry on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series and legacy than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who matches wits, and wit, so well with  Bill Moyers on this show, they ought to think about starring in the talk-show equivalent of a buddy movie. Their conversation began last week – and went so well, it’s going into overtime with tonight’s installment. It seems only fitting: their cosmic conversation, likes the un
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
24
 
 
For now, Netflix has earned the right to be noted whenever it makes a programming step, so let’s note this: Its newest exclusive offering, a documentary about the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, is unveiled today. But it’s unveiled at the odd hour of 11 a.m. ET – and presents a look at the losing candidate of an election that took place two years ago. Before this, when was the last time you read a media mention of Mitt Romney? My point exactly. As attention-getting moves
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
24
 
 
In Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy triumph of a Western spoof, Cleavon Little plays Black Bart – technically, black Bart – who, at one point, extricates himself from a mob of bigots by holding himself hostage at gunpoint. And it works. So does the rest of the movie, from its infamous campfire scene to its shatter-the-fourth-wall climax. Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn and Brooks himself co-star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
24
 
 
Pamela Travers, who wrote Mary Poppins under the name P.L. Travers, is profiled in this public television special – which finds the room, and the time, to present clips from the current Disney movie, Saving Mr. Banks, about the long process of turning her book into a film. Check local listings.  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
24
 
 
Tonight’s guests include Erin Brockovich – the real one, not Julia Roberts, who played her in the movie of the same name – and Willie Nelson. Hmm. Willie Nelson and Bill Maher together, with marijuana legalization as part of the national news cycle. What will they talk about?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
23
 
 

So Bill Cosby has signed with NBC to star in a new series. After making major TV history for NBC twice already, with I Spy and The Cosby Show, can he do it again?...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
23
 
 
This 1978 comedy showed how movies went viral before the age of the Internet. When this film was released, most members of the college-age generation were driven to see it, with word of mouth anointing it instantly as a special, must-see experience. It turned Saturday Night Live player John Belushi into a movie star and comedic force, and captured playful young anarchy as perfectly for the Seventies as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a decade later, would do for the Eighties. Other familiar face
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
23
 
 
Joan Crawford walked away with an Oscar for playing a proud woman who is devoted to her daughter in ways that aren’t always reciprocated. It’s a juicy role – Kate Winslet, in an HBO miniseries version of the same story, won awards as well – but for my money, it’s Ann Blyth, as Mildred’s grown-up, icy daughter, who brings this film home and makes its melodrama so involving.