Feb 07 2012
Lovers of “Lost” take heart.
ABC has a new mysterious jungle series with the down- river, patrol-boat feel of “Apocalypse Now” and a character with the relentless need for fame of risk-taking idiot Steve Irwin.
“The River” is about an expedition to find missing wildlife expert and TV personality Dr...
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Feb 06 2012
Broadway musicals don’t bring me joy.
In fact, the very sound of “five, six, seven, eight,” makes me physically ill, and dance numbers that include top hats or flying witches can send me into a clinical depression.
Because of my predisposition to musicals (although I loved “Glee” that first...
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Feb 05 2012
E.T. The Extra-terrestrial, 1982
Sunday, 8 p.m., AMC
One of the best of the incredibly charming, exciting sci-fi adventures that were so popular in the 1980s, is Steven Spielberg’s story of a little boy (Henry Thomas) who finds and befriends an extraterrestrial and decides to hide him...
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Feb 04 2012
Like most Lifetime movies from mystery best-sellers, tonight’s “Secrets of Eden” begins with the unthinkable — murder in small town, USA.
Eden, Vt. is the place where life is easy and the living is clean — or so it seems. But behind closed doors, things happen that don’t ever see...
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Feb 02 2012
Now that “Jersey Shore” is becoming faker than its tans, less spontaneous than a fight on “Jerry Springer” and more gratingly goomba than ever before, you might be ready for smart again.
At least MTV is taking no chances — and with “Jersey Shore’s” ratings sinking faster than The Situation...
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Feb 01 2012
Cockiness pays off sometimes.
Take Babe Ruth pointing to center field before smacking that homer, or Joe Namath guaranteeing a Jets Super Bowl win against 17-point odds.
And sometimes it doesn’t.
Example: Simon Cowell.
The big-shot blowhard who predicted that “The X Factor” would average 20 million viewers is...
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Jan 30 2012
Every female who’s bought into the recent, nutty, retro-princess trend should be tied down and forced to watch TLC’s hilarious new reality series, “Undercover Princes.”
No, that’s not “princess,” but princes — as in male.
Why? Because if you weren’t born royal, you have to marry royal...
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Jan 29 2012
JANE EYRE, 1944
Monday, 8 p.m., TCM
* Joan Fontaine is Jane Eyre, who in 1800s England, goes straight from an abusive, orphans' charity school to a position as a governess to the ward of rich, gloomy Mr. Rochester (Orson Welles). Although he is above her station in 19th-century English...
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Jan 27 2012
Do you remember the first time you saw “Deadwood” or “The Sopranos,” and you couldn’t figure out what the hell you’d just seen — but you knew you wanted more?
That’s exactly how you’ll probably feel after watching HBO’s new unlike-anything-you’ve-ever-seen series, “Luck,” about life...
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Jan 26 2012
If you had pinned your hopeless hopes on seeing the Jets in postseason play, HBO has figured out how to do it: a documentary.
No, not a documentary on how many people have jumped out of the window post-season, but a documentary on the reason that the Jets became legend...
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