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2014
Jun
6
 
 
This prime-time network TV salute to the invasion of Normandy, 70 years after the horrifically difficult military mission known as D-Day, brings Brian Williams to the Normandy beaches, with several men who have been there before – back in 1944, when Allied soldiers stormed the beach at Nazi-occupied France.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
6
 
 
Part 1 of 2. Another 70th anniversary D-Day special, this one runs two hours tonight and another two tomorrow. (Hey, look, Ma! The History Channel is showing some actual history!) And it, like many other new D-Day documentaries, is taking the time and opportunity to interview surviving veterans of that part of the war, who were as young as 18 at the time, and certainly are resources to be used now, and gratefully.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
6
 
 
After a week off, Bill Maher returns with a new live hour of TV talk – featuring such guests, this time, as former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner and, shown here, film director (and, now, hitchhiking author) John Waters. Both of them have been on Real Time before, and been very entertainingly candid.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
6
 
 
Creating a drama series for television is nothing new for Steven Bochco. He’s been doing it for decades — Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, LA Law and Murder One, to name but a few. Now he’s back, with TNT's Murder in the First...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
5
 
 
This 1976 movie arrived when I was a graduate school student, studying both journalism and education. After the excitement and idealism brilliantly presented in this film version of the Washington Post Watergate reporting by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, journalism won – at least for a few decades. Alan J. Pakula directed, William Goldman wrote the screenplay, and Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman played the roles of the reporters, who did all this digging without either cellphones or c
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
5
 
 
The Miami Heat are here again – and so are the San Antonio Spurs, in a rematch of last year’s battle, which the Heat won in seven games. This time, Miami is going for a three-peat – and if that’s accomplished, it’ll be the first time since the 2002 Los Angeles Lakers.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
5
 
 
Part 2. I don’t have to offer any disclaimers this time, because I’m not in this hour. It’s called World on the Brink, and looks at the white-hot events of the Bay of Pigs invasion and  Cuban Missile Crisis, with President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, staring down the growling Soviet dogs of war.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
5
 
 
It’s a tough week for poor Mark Maron: His girlfriend is leaving for good, and his cat Boomer is missing. Guess which one ends up bothering him more.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
5
 
 
Tom Cruise has been here before (pictured), to promote his most recent movie, Oblivion. That’s when we found out Tom Cruise and Jon Stewart were the same age. Now Cruise is back, to promote Edge of Tomorrow, and who knows what we’ll learn this time.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
4
 
 
Music awards shows, from MTV’s concoctions up to and including the Grammys, are much more about the live performances than the actual awards. This CMT home-grown country music awards show is no exception, and lures more than enough talent each year to make it worth tuning in to sample. Tonight, for example, the live show is scheduled to include a duet with Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood, performing “Somethin’ Bad.” Expect somethin’ good.