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LINCOLN
October 4, 2013  | By David Bianculli

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

This 2012 Steven Spielberg movie, and its central performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, are worth watching any time. But I’m looking forward to this particular repeat telecast because, in the interim, I screened for one of my TV classes at Rowan University an episode of Gidget, the Sixties series in which Sally Field played a peppy surf chick teenager. Watching her play Mary Todd Lincoln to Day-Lewis’ Abraham, after all the intervening years, is an enthralling history lesson – twice.

 
 
 
 
 
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