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OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1964) Monday, 4 p.m., TCM The third remake of W. Somerset Maugham’s wondrous novel of love and obsession stars the impossibly beautiful Kim Novak and the even more impossibly beautiful Laurence Harvey. A medical student with a disability falls for a tawdry waitress at the...

No documentary about eco-nut gunman

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The mad gunman had five live bombs strapped to his body. He took two employees and one security guard hostage. More than 100 children were in a daycare center in the building at the time, as were 2,000 employees. Isn't this horrifying situation perfect for a Discovery documentary...

‘Real’ desperate

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Remember when we used to watch the Oscars and the Emmys just to see stars behaving badly and dressing like Las Vegas hookers? Alas, handlers, stylists and spokespeople have taken over and now everyone on these shows acts like George Washington. Now, we're forced to fill the gap with...

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PAL JOEY (1957) Wednesday, 12 a.m., TCM Frank Sinatra is Joey, a louse whose dreams of owning a nightclub begin to come true when he plays on the affections of a former stripper, Vera (Rita Hayworth) who has become a very rich widow. All is working as planned until...

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If you've about had it with TV spies, terror ists, explosions, Palestinian bad guys, fantastical plots, beautiful female agents and gorgeous male mercenaries, have I got a show for you. It's a three-part series by Olivier Assayas debuting Oct. 11 on the Sundance Channel called "Carlos," and it...

‘Mad’ goes too far

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The blogosphere is all (sorry) atwitter over little Sally Draper's masturbation scene on Sunday night's "Mad Men." And for all the wrong reasons. They think that 11-year-old actress Kiernan Shipka being made to open her legs à la Sharon Stone and place her fingers under her nightgown to...

I married a monster: the TV show

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Marriage, it's enough to make you lose faith in mankind -- emphasis here on man. At least that's the way you may feel after watching a few of the fascinating, scary, nearly incomprehensible true stories on ID's new show, "Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry?" The new...

Ladies’ man unusual

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If the first name you think of when you think "sex scene" is Steve Buscemi, then you're not alone. There are at least two other people who agree with you. Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, the guys behind HBO's upcoming, big-bucks Prohibition-era series, "Boardwalk Empire," which stars Buscemi...

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RELIGULOUS (2008) Sunday, 2:30 p.m., SHOe Bill Maher and “Borat” director Larry Charles set out to prove that organized religions are wacky and dangerous. They go to the Creationist Museum — dedicated to showing that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together — and other places where religion is more...

Working for the jerk in ‘The Spin Crowd’

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When are the suits in Hollywood going to figure out that reality shows about "the glamorous world of celebrity PR" are doomed to fail? It didn't work for powerhouse celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman, ("PoweR Girls" on MTV) who went from celebrity publicist to annoying celebrity, publicist and ex con...