Thursday TV: ‘Bad’ Turns 25, Parade is 86
The big Thanksgiving helping tonight comes in the form of Spike Lee’s documentary on the making of the follow up to the biggest album in history. “Michael Jackson: BAD 25”…
Familiar Faces Behind Beards in ‘Lincoln’
“Lincoln” is certainly a grand piece of filmmaking, from its detailed sets and beard wrangling, to Daniel Day Lewis’ thoughtful performance, Tony Kushner’s nimble script. One could imagine oneself transformed…
Wednesday TV: Charlie Brown, Cat in Hat and Jim Rome
There's no stopping the holiday onslaught now. But at least one of the holidays being celebrated is actually turkey day, with the perennial "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (ABC, 8 p.m.), earning…
All Female Finale for ‘Dancing’
In an odd turn of events, the lat remaining men on "Dancing with the Stars" -- who are also prominent athletes who won their first seasons on the show --…
Dylan in D.C.: Twice as Many ‘Tempest’ Songs
It’s been way too long since I’ve seen a Bob Dylan show – two years to the day according to my research. Moving, settling, being out of town when he…
Tuesday TV: The Oafish Billionaire and the Poor Kids of Iowa
If “American Masters” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) were named instead “American Bastards,” it might be more fitting that there’s a two hour profile of David Geffen, one of…
Theatre Review: ‘The Aliens’
The title of Annie Baker’s play at Studio Theatre, “The Aliens,” has nothing to do with either immigration or science fiction. Rather, it is one of dozens of proposed names…
Monday TV: ‘Dust Bowl’ End, HALO Awards
The other shoe falls on the two night epic retelling of "The Dust Bowl" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), but not before a plague of grasshoppers, a Woody Guthrie…
‘Homeland’ Helicopter Hostage
What seemed at just a bad secondary story line involving a daughter and a hit and run accident – a left turn right out of second season “Friday Night Lights”…
The Sound of the Dust Bowl
There were spools of dramatic period newsreel film to fill Ken Burns four-hour, two night documentary on "The Dust Bowl," which begins tonight on PBS. All of it, it seems,…