Over the several days before he was fatally shot – 40 years ago, believe it or not – John Lennon had recorded an extensive interview with British journalist Andy Peebles...

2020

Dec

'NURSES' – NEW U.S. PROGRAMMING THANKS TO CANADA By David Hinckley

It's fitting that one of the few new dramas struggling to the surface on a broadcast network this fall is a medical show...

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'A SUITABLE BOY' ON ACORN BRINGS VIKRAM SETH'S NOVEL TO LIFE By David Hinckley

Good news! If you've always wanted to read Vikram Seth's 1,349-page novel A Suitable Boy, but never found the time, you now finally have a nice compact six-part TV miniseries version...

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BRYAN CRANSTON IS A JUDGE TRYING TO HELP HIS SON ON 'YOUR HONOR' By David Hinckley

Bryan Cranston apparently can't help breaking bad. For viewers, that's good...

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WE KNOW THE TRAGIC END, BUT 'SELENA: THE MOVIE' CELEBRATES THE SINGER AND HER RISE TO STARDOM By David Hinckley

The ping-pong match continues with the legacy of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, better known simply as Selena, the much-loved Tejano singer who was murdered in 1995 at the age of 23...

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TRIPPING THROUGH THE LIFE OF TIMOTHY LEARY WITH ONE OF HIS ROMANTIC PARTNERS: 'MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY' By David Hinckley

If you're the sort of reader who is fascinated by footnotes and the intriguing little side stories they sometimes promise, you might enjoy My Psychedelic Love Story...

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KALEY CUOCO RETURNS TO TV IN A COMEDY FAR DARKER THAN HER PREVIOUS SHOWS: 'THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT' By David Hinckley

Back in the day when flight attendants were stewardesses (women only, of course), there was this unspoken male fantasy that "stews" led exotic lives of forbidden pleasure...Fortunately, we've pretty much moved past that...

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WHILE 'BLACK NARCISSUS' MAY HIT SOME STOCK THEMES, IT'S STILL AN INTRIGUING THRILLER By David Hinckley

It's 1934, and a bunch of nuns from India troop across part of the Himalayas to move into an old palace in a remote village where they plan to start a school for native children. What could possibly go wrong?...

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THE MANY SIDES OF 'BELUSHI' By David Hinckley

In 1984, two years after comedian John Belushi was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel cottage from a fatal mashup of heroin and cocaine, journalist Bob Woodward wrote Wired...

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A VOICE THAT DEMANDS – AND NEEDS – TO BE HEARD: 'I AM GRETA' By David Hinckley

The public visibility of socio-political campaigns surges and recedes, often with little relation to the importance of the issue they focus on...

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