Only 12 horses have managed to win the Triple Crown in horse racing history. Today at Belmont, Justify, having won the first two races in this intensely challenging gauntlet, hopes to become the lucky 13th.
In this 1958 movie, Kim Novak plays a witch who, with her cat familiar and her familiar catlike eyes, bewitches James Stewart. And every time I watch this romantic comedy, her spell works on me as well.
MINISERIES FINALE: The fifth and final installment in this emotional, sometimes painfully funny (and other times just painful) semi-autobiographical story by Edward St. Aubyn, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is televised tonight by Showtime.
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.