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TUESDAY
MAY 15
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 
GLEE

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

This week’s episode, occupying two hours, has room for the onset of Nationals, and graduation – and even Lindsay Lohan, who guest stars as herself. She plays a guest judge on TV – as opposed to, say, Britney Spears, who next season on The X Factor will be a guest judge on TV.

 
  
 
 
THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

CONCLUSION: Parts 3 and 4 of this four-part documentary are shown tonight, suggesting both the emotional costs and some pragmatic solutions for attacking the country’s obesity epidemic. I would have pointed out Parts 1 and 2 in yesterday’s Best Bets – but, ironically, it didn’t quite fit.

 
  
 
 
THE PERFECT STORM

IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET

George Clooney stars in this 2000 adventure film, a fact-based story that depends on special effects for its dramatic, aquatic climax, but solid acting for everything else. The outstanding supporting cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, Cherry Jones and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

 
  
 
 
GUN CRAZY

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1949 movie, featuring one of the most sinister femmes fatale in film noir (ooh la la, what French!), stars Peggy Cummins as a woman with a tiny voice, a tight wardrobe, and an obsession with guns and gunplay. John Dall plays the guy who gets snared in her web, and taken on a murder spree – in a script co-written by Dalton Trumbo, who worked through a front to get around the Communist witch hunters of that era.

 
  
 
 
THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON IN SCOTLAND

CBS, 12:37 a.m. ET

On tonight’s second episode of the show’s week in Scotland, Ferguson lands a genuinely important and newsworthy interview – with Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland. The interview was recorded at Arbroath Abbey, where the Declaration of Arbroath – an early model for the U.S. Constitution – was signed by Scottish nobles in 1320. All this, and Secretariat, too? No wonder I'm watching!

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.
 
 
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