SATURDAY
JUNE 23
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Cartoon Network, 7:00 p.m. ET

Robert Zemeckis changed the rules of cinema in 1988, showing how you could blend live action and animation using CGI and other special effects. It may look somewhat crude today, but it also looks innocent and charming, like a vintage Road Runner cartoon. And when Bob Hoskins falls under the spell of Jessica Rabbit, you can understand why he’s drawn to her. Especially considering the way she’s drawn.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

TCM is saluting Natalie Wood tonight, and the first two movies show her range in very different sorts of vehicles. This one, from 1955, is a generational classic, full of angst and hope and love and despair and everything else that consumed the postwar generation. Wood plays a young girl in love with James Dean – and other conflicted teens in this Nicholas Ray film include Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 9:57 p.m. ET

This 1999 comedy concert special didn’t cause quite as much of a stir as Rock’s previous standup smash, but it’s another wild ride of smart, often controversial observations. This is the special in which he recommends forgetting about gun control, and focusing on “bullet control” instead. Charge thousands of dollars per bullet, and gun violence automatically will drop significantly…

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

Here’s another Natalie Wood feature –set squarely in the time, place and world now reimagined by Mad Men. Wood plays Helen Gurley Brown, the psychologist who wrote a bestseller describing the new freedom of young single women in the early 1960s. Tony Curtis plays a tabloid magazine reporter who sets out to entrap her and write an exposé – and the attitudes, fashion and observations in this film are, for anyone interested in the period, revelatory. And her’s something else interesting: one of the writers of the screenplay is Joseph Heller, three years after he published Catch-22.

 
  
 
 

Encore, 10:05 p.m. ET

This gripping drama, from 1987, is one of many cinematic masterpieces by Stanley Kubrick. It’s actually two movies – one detailing the boot-camp experiences of Marines being trained for duty, and the other dramatizing their experiences in Vietnam. Matthew Modine stars in both, but the scene-stealers in part one are R. Lee Ermey as the tough-as-nails sergeant, and Vincent D’Onofrio (left) as his most malleable and picked-on recruit.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.