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Cannes Film Festival
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In the new print issue of TIME, we have our summer Arts preview (subscription required), in which I blurb 11 summer TV shows I’m most interested in seeing. This is not to say the “best” shows of the summer, because they’re shows that I have not yet watched (the new series, like The Newsroom), whose new episodes I haven’t seen yet (returning series, like Breaking Bad) or that I cannot watch without a time machine (the Olympics and the conventions).
OK, so much for summer; let’s move on to fall!
The last of the networks to present, on Thursday, revamped its schedule in a way that even more clearly focused on its specific specialties: soap, relationships and fantasy.
A half-century ago, on a spring night in New York City, 35-year-old Marilyn Monroe — literally sewn into a sparkling, jaw-droppingly tight dress — stood in a spotlight on a dark stage. She took a breath, began to sing — and 15,000 men and women who filled the old Madison Square Garden that night knew, simply knew, that they were seeing and hearing something that they would never, ever forget.









































