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I Love Lucy Christmas Special Features Colorized Classic Episodes
I’m generally not a fan of colorized versions of vintage black and white TV shows and movies. The faux colors tend to look garish and cheesy and usually flatten the rich contrast found in their original black and white counterparts. That … Continue reading
CBSNEWS.com to Stream Historic 1963 JFK Assassination Coverage
As we mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 2013, and as a follow-up to my review of the fine PBS documentary, American Experience: JFK (see blog post 11/11/13), I urge you to … Continue reading
American Experience Profiles JFK Tonight and Tomorrow Night on PBS
It’s hard to believe that 50 years have passed since President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963. As a kid, in 1960, I vividly remember standing anxiously with my family and friends in front of our neighborhood White Castle hamburger joint … Continue reading
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of War of the Worlds Tonight on PBS
It’s almost “Mischief Night” and, back in the day, if you ever enjoyed plotting a few sly schemes with a bar of soap, a roll of toilet paper and random doorbell ringing as a kid, you know what that means. Good clean fun! … Continue reading
56 UP Debuts on PBS
“When I film 84 UP, I’ll be 99!”—director Michael Apted. For half-a-century, ex-pat British director Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist, The World Is Not Enough, The Chronicles of Narnia) has been passionately involved with the ground-breaking Granada TV project … Continue reading
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Tagged 56 Up, Aging, Family Relationships, Michael Apted, POV, Reality TV, Seven UP, Social Issues, The Up Series
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American Masters Billie Jean King To Be Rebroadcast
If you care about the history of women’s sports in America and if you know or remember little or nothing about the key role that tennis champ Billie Jean King played in turning her sport into a professional enterprise, I urge you … Continue reading
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Tagged American Masters Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, Diversity, Equal Rights, James Erskine, Sports, Tennis, The Battle of the Sexes, Women's Issues
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The Heat … Women on the Verge, Pt. 1
Movie-going this summer was an exercise in 3-Dementia: Iron men, avenging aliens, zombies, animated monsters, upwardly mobile snails and Johnny Depp hamming and glamming the life out of iconic Tonto. Not my cup of tea; although I do admit to having a fondness for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddy Cop Films, Film Comedies, Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Sandra Bullock, Summer Movie Hits, The Heat, Women on Film, Women's Issues
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New 35mm Print of A Time for Burning to Debut at BAM
On Wednesday night, August 21, at 7 p.m., if you are in the vicinity of Brooklyn, New York, you would be wise to scoot over to BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music/Peter J. Sharp Building) for a rare opportunity to see the … Continue reading
Rebel Honors Latina Soldier in the American Civil War
I’m generally not a fan of documentaries that incorporate dramatic re-enactments into the mix. However, I applaud filmmaker María Agui Carter—Rockefeller fellow and native of Ecuador—who includes some quite lovely and effective dramatic moments in her new hour-long film, Rebel, premiering on PBS on Memorial Day … Continue reading
Mel Brooks Makes a Noise on American Masters Tonight
On June 6, the American Film Institute will bestow their 41st Life Achievement Award on Brooklyn’s own Melvin J. Kaminsky. Melvin joins a stellar list of previous AFI recipients with such notable monikers as Bette Davis, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire and … Continue reading
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