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2021
Feb
23
 
 
On this day in 1983, 97 PBS stations across the country broadcast television's first live open-heart surgery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
22
 
 
This day in 2004 marked the final episode of HBO's Sex and the City...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
22
 
 
The forgotten archives of television aren't all from the earliest days, as we are reminded, in a new PBS documentary called Mr. Soul!...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
22
 
 
I've got to admit I didn't have high expectations for an imported miniseries focusing on the dramas surrounding a junior hockey team from an extremely cold town in far northern Sweden...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
22
 
 
How many years ago did Barry Levinson direct Rain Man, the outstanding character study starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise? It was 32 years ago. That’s really hard for me to believe, but both the film and performances feel very, very fresh. Hoffman has the showier role – demanding attention by its very stillness – but Cruise gives what still is one of his best performances ever, and together they’re a very dynamic and touching duo.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
21
 
 
Not unlike a number of other men in this world, Woody Allen's attitude toward kids changed when he got his first chance to actually hang around with them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
21
 
 
Out of sight is not necessarily out of mind...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
21
 
 
Maybe there never will be a slow week in politics ever again – and the correspondents of The Circus keep rolling with the punches. Because of the pandemic, their start-of-week planning sessions, formerly held at some swanky or tacky eatery and filmed like a sort of food orgy, now are done remotely, with each of them literally phoning it in while engaging in a safely distanced meal for one. But they keep getting interviews, and scoops, and going where the news is. This past week,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
21
 
 
Actor Stanley Tucci showed he knew his way around a kitchen when cooking up an omelet in real time, in one unbroken and brilliant scene, at the culinary climax of the fabulous 1996 movie Big Night. Now he’s running around Italy, being as friendly and inquisitive as Phil Rosenthal on his food and travel show – and there’s something about watching someone run around in Italy like a free-range chicken right now, when I’m still afraid to enter a groce
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
21
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This four-part documentary by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering looks at the controversial allegations aimed at Woody Allen by longtime companion Mia Farrow. It has the cooperation of Farrow, as well as Dylan Farrow, the now-grown adopted daughter who has accused Allen of child abuse, and several of her friends and former employees – but Allen is heard only in recordings from press conferences, an audiobook reading of his autobiography, or phone conversations tape