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2016
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Because he was the host of a reality show, I met and interviewed president elect Donald Trump on a few occasions. Here is what happened on one of them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Robert Vaughn left more behind than Napoleon Solo. The 83-year-old actor, who died Friday remained best known for playing Solo on the 1960s television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which has endured more vividly in TV lore than it did on the air...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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She’s a drug addict and compulsive thief just coming off a prison term. He’s a professional hitman. They meet under sordid and lethal circumstances and quickly go criminal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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Here’s a network that has snuck up on me: Have you ever heard of RetroPlex? Neither have I. But this sister operation of the Starz network is here, on my satellite lineup, and it offers movies – very vintage and a bit more recent – unedited and uninterrupted. Today’s schedule, for example, includes Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam at 9:30 a.m. ET and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 9:35 p.m. ET – and really caught my attention by making room, at
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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The mystery continues. And deepens. And, though it hardly seems possible, gets even weirder…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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Sir David Attenborough, the British TV nature documentarian whose contributions to the medium are incalculably significant, has appeared on this freewheeling British talk show several times – and each time, the old man has flirted shamelessly with his attractive female fellow guests, who seem delighted as well as surprised by the attention. Let’s see if he stays true to form tonight. If so, he’ll be focusing on Claire Foy, star of Netflix’s new The Crown, who guests tonig
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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Dave Chappelle is tonight’s guest host, and that’s quite a coup for Saturday Night Live – as is the landing of the week’s long-dormant musical act, A Tribe Called Quest. But even they will be overshadowed by this week’s opening sketch, in which, undoubtedly, Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon will take the stage as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And did the former star of 30 Rock ever dream, when he signed on to impersonate the former star of The Apprentice, that he
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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Here’s a rarely seen 30-minute film short that film fans should really enjoy (and Project Runway fans, too): a trapped-in-amber portrait of a lushly staged night of celebrity revelry at Hollywood’s famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub. It’s filmed in Technicolor – quite a rarity, in 1934 – and features appearances by silent screen star Mary Pickford (who talks) and movie-star crooner Bing Crosby (who sings), and also features a full-color, appropriately lavish Hollywood f
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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Imelda Staunton presses the pedal to the metal as the ultimate stage mother in the revival of Gypsy that airs Friday at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
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We’ve already got at least two classic filmed iterations of the 1959 Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne musical Gypsy. First was the 1962 movie starring Rosalind Russell as the ultimate stage mother, Mama Rose, and Natalie Wood, who went from stage performer Baby Louise to famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Then came the 1993 made-for-TV version shown by CBS, with Bette Midler as Mama Rose and Cynthia Gibb as her ultimately rebellious ecdysiast daughter. It may sound heretical, but the TV version wa