Hugh Grant wants to take all those beloved, cheerful, endearing rom-com characters that he's been playing forever and toss them into the dustbin of cinematic history...

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'LETTER TO YOU' IS SPRINGSTEEN'S STORY OF LOVE, LIFE, AND MUSIC By David Hinckley

Bruce Springsteen had hoped to celebrate his reunion with the E Street Band by launching a world tour. Then Covid-19 showed up, like darkness on the edge of town, and a Zoom tour just wouldn't have been the same...

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THE LEGACY OF 'WALTER WINCHELL: THE POWER OF GOSSIP' By David Hinckley

Walter Winchell was considered the second most famous man in America in the 1930s, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt. We still remember FDR today. Winchell? Well, his influence has outlasted his name...

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A POSSIBLE MURDER CONNECTION ON THE DRAMA/THRILLER 'DARKNESS: THOSE WHO KILL' By David Hinckley

If anyone makes worse decisions than teenage girls in horror movies, let's just hope they aren't registered to vote...

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'THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE' EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF GOSSIP ON A SMALL TOWN By David Hinckley

The show is called The Trouble With Maggie Cole, and it's tempting to say the trouble is Maggie Cole. That wouldn't be entirely fair since there are frequent sprinkles of charm...

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AN APPROPRIATE TIME FOR 'WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME' By David Hinckley

At a moment when we're watching a real-life discussion in the U.S. Senate of "what the Constitution means to me," a rather different approach to that subject pops up...

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THE STORY OF THE GRUESOME CRIMES OF A U.K. SERIAL KILLER ON 'DES' By David Hinckley

Dennis Andrew Nilsen, who murdered at least 15 men in Britain between 1978 and 1983, stands out even in the netherworld of serial killers...

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'DRIVING WHILE BLACK: RACE, SPACE AND MOBILITY IN AMERICA' EXAMINES A FEAR THAT'S NEVER GONE AWAY By David Hinckley

The point of driving is to get you somewhere. The point of Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America is to show the viewer how the American "crime" of driving while Black reflects a greater and deeper fear...

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LIKE A ZOMBIE, 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' HAS RETURNED By David Hinckley

The opening for the new season of Fear the Walking Dead will remind anyone who might have forgotten that yes, folks, this is a show built on a comic book...

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'CONNECTING…' IS A COVID-ERA COMEDY THAT REFLECTS THE NEW WORLD WE'RE ALL EXPERIENCING By David Hinckley

You knew it was only a matter of time before someone would create a sitcom that looks like a Zoom meeting...

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David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.

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