DAVID BIANCULLI

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2020
May
4
 
 
For four noisy – and kind of cheerful – decades, there was nothing presidential about George W. Bush. But then came the flip side...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
4
 
 
Any experiment – Wright Brothers’ flight, man on the moon, mixing chocolate with marshmallow – will have its problems...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
30
 
 
A new art form – we’ll call it “social-distance theater” – takes a big step tonight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
28
 
 
American Idol has changed a lot in the past two decades. For instance, the singers are much better, but the judges are much worse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
26
 
 
The new Penny Dreadful season – Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – sprawls across huge emotional turf...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
22
 
 
Last month, Jane Goodall – who will be the star of many Earth Day programs Wednesday – received some jolting news: She would be relaxing at home for a while...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
22
 
 
Let’s think of it as an Earth Day Film Festival. On Wednesday, our TVs and other devices will be filled with documentaries and other programming, some hopeful and some bleak, for the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
15
 
 
Back in 1972, American society seemed to be transforming. "You just had the Civil Rights Act and the Pay Equity Act," said Cate Blanchett...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
8
 
 
When the Modern Family cast first assembled, Jesse Tyler Ferguson was surrounded by strangers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
7
 
 
Two long-running comedies say farewell this week. One is much loved, one much-liked. Both will be greatly missed. And together, they show how life (especially TV life) has changed in a decade or so...