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2018
May
5
 
 
Though the first induction ceremonies of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than 30 years ago boasted the biggest guns and most wide ranging jam sessions, they were private affairs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
5
 
 
The annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony remains a weird animal in the television music show game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
5
 
 
The overall effect of this year’s ceremony, taped last month in Cleveland, might well be doesn’t even bother to show up. Ironically, he fails to follow the advice in the opening lines of “Money for Nothing,” the hit song and video (pictured) that made his band popular in 1985: “Now look at them yo-yo’s, that’s the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it / Money for nothin’ and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
5
 
 
In one corner, you had Richard Nixon, the Oval Office inhabitant who whose minions acted surreptitiously, and illegally, to further his presidential campaign chances. In the other corner, you had Mark Felt, a high-ranking FBI agent who helps guide the Washington Post coverage of the Watergate affair by becoming the informant quickly nicknamed Deep Throat. Felt was identified only by his alias when portrayed so brilliantly by Hal Holbrook in the 1976 movie All the President’s Men, which tol
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
5
 
 
Peter Sellers’ first two turns as Inspector Clouseau are presented tonight, as MGM pairs A Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther – and televises them in the correct order of their production, rather than the order of their cinematic release. A Shot in the Dark, co-starring Elke Sommer, was filmed first, but shelved by the studio until director Blake Edwards and star Sellers reteamed for Pink Panther, which became a big hit in 1963. A Shot in the Dark, though filmed first, followed in
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
5
 
 
Tonight’s guest host is Donald Glover, star of Atlanta and, before that, co-star of Community. And tonight’s musical guest is Grammy-winning rap artist Childish Gambino. Any resemblance to Glover is strictly unavoidable: Donald Glover and Childish Gambino are the same person. As they say on certain social media websites: It’s complicated….
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
4
 
 
It’s one of the toughest questions there is, as a fan. How do you separate an actor from the character he, or she, plays on TV? Can you separate the two? Is it even right to try to separate the two?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
4
 
 
Once upon a time, America practiced international diplomacy with a cornet, a piano, and a trumpet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
4
 
 
Take the framework of The Walking Dead, grab a little of The 100, add ancestral echoes from Lord of the Flies, toss in a hint of Flowers in the Attic and you’ve got the new Danish miniseries The Rain...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
4
 
 
Once a month, David Letterman returns with a new installment of his Netflix talk show, and with a new guest. Tonight, it’s someone who’s conquered late-night TV as Letterman has, but, unlike Letterman, also has tasted major success in prime time, the movies, and, more recently, on Broadway: Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, and cinema and the stage’s Mean Girls creator, Tina Fey.