Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
1. Who’s the Fairest?
Mirror, Mirror, the first of this year’s competing Snow White flicks, is in theaters …
Fans Devour The Hunger Games for a $155 Million Feast
“You really want to know how to stay alive?” Haymitch Abernathy tells Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of The Hunger Games. “Get people to like you.” Well, Katniss not only survived, she thrived. The movie based on Suzanne …
Happy Birthday Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul Turns 70
As the legendary singer turns 70, TIME looks back on the highs and lows of her extraordinary career.
The Deep Blue Sea: The Passion of Terence Davies
Rachel Weisz is superb as a willful woman torn between love and propriety in a brilliant rethinking of the Terence Rattigan play.
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TV Weekend: Mad Men Returns, A Nation’s DVRs Feel the Strain
Once upon a time, Sunday was a nice evening to relax and take in a good show or two before the work week began. Now it’s more like a job in itself, even if you don’t watch TV for a living.
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Geraldo Rivera Opens Hoodie, Inserts Foot in Mouth
So there’s a heartbreaking, controversial public story and Geraldo Rivera made a stupid, insensitive comment about it. Which is good reason not to write about it; it’s dog bites man. Rivera doesn’t deserve the attention for saying, as he did on Fox and Friends today, that Trayvon Martin’s hoodie “is as much responsible for Trayvon …
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Smash Gets an Encore. Its Creator Doesn’t. Can the Show Change Its Tune?
I would not have been surprised to hear that NBC musical Smash had been picked up for a second season; it’s ratings have not been great, but in NBC-land “not great” is cause for a tickertape parade these days. I also would not …
Why I’m NOT Taking My 8-Year Old To The Hunger Games
Tony Kaye’s Detachment: A Miserable Education
Get ready to wallow; the director of American History X turns his sights on a high school where nobody is having any fun at all.
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The Morning After: Handyman Special
The “hangout comedy” is becoming a common enough fixture on TV these days that we should probably come up with a working definition of it. Broadly speaking, I think of it as a laid-back comedy about adult friendships—sometimes …
Abbey Road Studios Opens Its Doors to the Public … Briefly
Beatles fans get a rare glimpse behind the scenes as the legendary London recording studio lets visitors in to celebrate its 80th birthday.
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud? Romney Adviser’s Unerasable Etch-a-Sketch Comment
The Mitt Romney presidential campaign has been unusually full of sitcom analogies this election season. Earlier, Romney compared opponent Newt Gingrich to Lucy in the candy factory from I Love Lucy, and characterized Gingrich as “zany,” a la a sitcom neighbor. In a recent debate, Romney alluded to the wisdom of Seinfeld’s George …
