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2018
Jun
17
 
 
Here’s something tricky, and uncomfortable, to contemplate. This 1985 made-for-TV filmed adaptation of the Arthur Miller classic, starring Dustin Hoffman as iconic past-his-prime traveling salesman Willy Loman, is a brilliant piece of work. Not only is the play itself heart-wrenching and important – attention must be paid – but the core performances, by Hoffman and by Kate Reid, John Malkovich and Stephen Lang, who play his wife and sons, respectively, are flawless. Yet this is
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
17
 
 
Tonight’s new episode is the penultimate one of Season 2, and spends some time outside of the increasingly bloody theme parks. Specifically, it flashes back in the life of the Man in Black, the Ed Harris character, to a time when he was more like the Man in Black Tux – and when his wife, played by the always impressive Sela Ward, was still alive.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
17
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 4, and the principal characters of this Rashomon-style love story continue to intersect and interact. It’s no longer a love triangle, or even a pentagon, and new sides are being added all the time. But as the new season begins, a year has passed in the show’s narrative, and things are notably different. Alison (Ruth Wilson) has remained in New York, as a crisis counselor. Noah (Dominic West), with whom she had one of this show’s titular affair
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
17
 
 
The intrigue continues as the power in this very wealthy family shifts suddenly and substantially, like a financial tectonic plate. And when the ground settles, there are new faces standing at the top.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
17
 
 
I wrote this last week, but it still applies: There may never be a slow news week again. But in the meantime, on many weeks such as this one, at least we have John Oliver to make sense of it all. And nonsense, too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
17
 
 
The fourth season of Showtime’s The Affair includes the suggestion that you can run, but you can’t hide...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
16
 
 
Okay, so I’m late on this one today – as I’m typing, it’s the second half of Argentina vs.  Iceland, a really exciting (and tie!) game so far, but one that started at 9 a.m. ET on Fox. Hope you caught it from the beginning. Later men's soccer games today, both shown on Fox Sports 1 (because Fox switches to golf and the U.S. Open), are Peru vs. Denmark at noon ET, and Croatia vs. Nigeria at 3 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
16
 
 
It’s the weekend for the U.S. Open, which is televised by Fox for a change (whether that’s a good change is a matter of opinion). One thing’s for sure this year: After the first two days of the men’s tournament are over, only one player is playing below par. That would be Dustin Johnson, who leads the field at 4 below par as he heads to the opening tee today. Johnson made the cut. His second-round partner, Tiger Woods, was among those who did not.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
16
 
 
Back in 1993, Jurassic Park changed movie history, and elevated digital special effects to a new level, by doing on the screen what the characters played by Sam Neill and Laura Dern were witnessing as they toured the park for the first time: dinosaurs brought vividly, and convincingly, to life. The newest entry in the Jurassic Park series arrives later this month in theaters, but I can still remember the thrill of attending, with my wide-eyed young offspring, the opening-night midnight premiere
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
16
 
 
Think of this 1972 Sydney Pollack movie, starring Robert Redford as a man who retreats into the rugged and unforgiving wilderness of the American West in the 19th century, fighting nature, the elements, and Native Americans in equal measure, as the original The Revenant. In its own wat, Jeremiah Johnson is just as poetic and captivating, and the cinematography as breathtaking. The film was shot on location throughout Utah, which is why Redford subsequently opted to establish both his home and hi