On this day in 1993, CBS presented a telefilm version of the Broadway musical, Gypsy, starring Cynthia Gibb in the title role, and Bette Midler as her domineering mother, Mama Rose...

2020

Dec

THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART? By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: This documentary tracks the amazing multi-act career of The Bee Gees, who started out in Australia as a sibling singing group spinning out songs about historical mining disasters, and ended up ushering in the disco craze. And finally, during this historic pandemic, we get a fresh look at the group whose anthem is, today, our mutual goal: “Stayin’ Alive.” And if this documentary doesn’t include the brilliant SNL “Barry Gibb Talk Show&r

2020

Dec

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

And speaking of SNL, tonight’s new installment features, as its musical guest, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Enough said. Oh – except for the fact that the host is Timothée Chalamet.

2020

Dec

'THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART' IS THE DEEP DIVE INTO THEIR CAREER THEY'VE LONG DESERVED By David Hinckley

It's not clear why a new documentary on the Bee Gees is titled How Can You Mend a Broken Heart since it's generally a pretty positive retrospective on one of the most enduring careers in modern popular music...

2020

Dec

BEYOND 'THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT: HOW THE YEAR'S FINEST TV DRAMA IS HOLDING UP A MIRROR TO LIFE By Alex Strachan

There are so many exquisite moments in The Queen's Gambit, Scott Frank's haunting, evocative miniseries adaptation of Walter Tevis's 1983 novel about a female chess prodigy, that it's hard to know where to begin...

2020

Dec

THE PROM By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This movie version of the Broadway musical is directed by Ryan Murphy, who parlayed his success with Fox’s Glee and such FX anthology series as American Horror Story, into a mega-money production deal with Netflix. This is his latest effort, and has him returning to his Glee roots: The Prom revolves emotional angst at a high school, is filled with music and makes room for adults, like Jane Lynch in Glee, who get to ove

2020

Dec

I'M YOUR WOMAN By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: In this new Amazon movie, Rachel Brosnahan from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel tackles another period piece and emergent feminist role, but with a difference. Instead of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s trying to find her place and voice as both a stand-up comic and a woman, as in Mrs. Maisel, the new I’m Your Woman places her character of Jean in the 1970s – and married to the mob. She’s disconnected, at least at first, f

2020

Dec

THE STAND IN By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Drew Barrymore stars in this new comedy film in not one role, but two. One is Candy, a Hollywood actress on hard times; the other is Paula, a much sweeter lookalike who serves as her cinematic stand-in. Paula’s job vanishes when Candy implodes on the set, and is forced eventually into court-mandated rehab – but there’s a clever twist in this Prince and the Pauper variant. Instead of having Paula replace Candy on the set and on film, Paula is hired by C

2020

Dec

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE By David Bianculli

This 1948 Frank Capra film used to be everywhere on TV during the holiday season, for a reason that had more to do with Scrooge-like greed than Santa-like good will. The copyright to It’s a Wonderful Life had lapsed, so every local station or broadcast or cable network in the country could show it for free, and make 100 percent profit for every commercial it crammed into its telecast. Then Universal, the parent company of NBC, re-established and secured the rights, and for years

2020

Dec

1993: HBO REMAKES 'ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN' By TV WW

Today in 1993, HBO premiered its remake of the campy classic Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, with Daryl Hannah as the title character...

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