This is real life
By Jacqueline Spendlove TV Media
I t’s not always easy being the man in charge. While it’s true that being a leader gives a person a fair amount of power, it can be a tough thing to wield — and keeping everyone beneath you happy is a near-impossible task.
In 1987, former police officer Nick Wasicsko became the youngest mayor in the history of Yonkers, N.Y., at the age of 28. In his latest HBO series, “Show Me a Hero,” David Simon, creator of “The Wire” and “Treme,” relates the true story of Wasicsko’s fight for the desegregation of public housing in the city and its effects on him, other elected officials, activists and the citizens of Yonkers. The six-part miniseries premieres Sunday, Aug. 16, on HBO. The show is based on journalist Lisa Belkin’s 1999 non-fiction book of the same name, which examines the effects of a 1985 ruling by Judge Leonard B. Sand that 200 apartments be built in Yonkers to house poor, largely minority residents in white, middle-class areas of the city. This effectively uprooted these poorer families and deposited them into more affluent neighborhoods, many of whose residents opposed and resented their presence there.
Wasicsko was elected on a promise that he would fight the demand for desegregation, but just days before his inauguration, a federal appeals court upheld the order. Persuaded by the city’s lawyers that fighting it was a lost cause, Wasicsko reversed his position and instead backed integration. The backlash from white residents was immediate and strong, and heavy fines against city council members who opposed the plan threatened to push the city to bankruptcy.
Wasicsko is portrayed in “Show Me a Hero” by Golden Globe nominee Oscar Isaac, in a rare departure from the big screen to TV. The Guatemalan-born actor has been making a name for himself recently, particularly since his title role in the critically acclaimed Coen Brothers film “Inside Llewyn Davis” (2013). He’s been praised for
his performance in “A Most Violent Year” (2014), in which he starred alongside Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain, and appeared earlier this year in the creepy sci-fi flick “Ex Machina.” Look for him towards the end of 2015 in “Star
For now, though, Isaac’s sticking much closer to reality, and that’s just the way Simon likes it.
“I find myself drawn to stories that are about people as I actually have encountered them in the world,” the writer and executive
For me, the real was very interesting to us.”
Isaac isn’t the only big name in “Show Me a Hero.” Oscar nominee and ‘90s darling Winona Ryder (“Girl, Interrupted,” 1999) plays Yonkers city council president Vin-
Martinelli, and Alfred Molina (“Spider-Man 2,” 2004) portrays city council member Henry J. Spallone. Oscar nominee Catherine Keener (“Being John Malkovich,” 1999) plays Mary Dorman, one of the many East Yonkers residents who is fervently against racial integration in her neighborhood.
“I think all the characters appealed to us because they were not larger than life,” Simon said in the “Journal News” interview. “They weren’t smaller than life, but nor were they superheroes or rising above their moment or being more evil than required.”
It’s no surprise that the former journalist is drawn to reality, and Simon’s shows are known to focus on the friction between those who make and enforce the laws and the ordinary people who are affected by them.
Simon began his career as a crime reporter for “The Baltimore Sun,” and his experiences shadowing the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit in the late ‘80s served as the basis for his first book, “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.” This in turn was the basis for the NBC series “Ho-
micide: Life on the Street,” which Simon wrote and produced. He’s described his critically acclaimed series “The Wire” as being “about the American city, and about how we live together. It’s about how institutions have an effect on individuals.” He also adapted Evan Wright’s book “Generation Kill” into an HBO miniseries of the same name, which is based on the author’s experiences as an embedded reporter at the start of the Iraq war.
“I’m sort of past the point where I want to do larger than life, and most of TV is about larger than life,” he said. “We’re trying to tell a story in a medium where vampires and gangsters and dragons prevail.”
For his part, Simon is far more concerned with telling a story that he feels needs to be told than he is with pulling in huge viewership numbers. If “Show Me a Hero” goes the way of his previous series, it will prove a quiet but critical success and Simon can consider his a job well done.
“Show Me a Hero” premieres its six-part run Sunday, Aug. 16, on HBO.
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NBCSN Pro Football Talk (Live) (0:30)
5:30 p.m. FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN Fantasy Football Live (Live) (0:30)
6:00 p.m. ESPN Monday Night Countdown (Live) (1:00)
ESPN2 Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Bal. (Live) (3:00)
NBCSN NASCAR K&N Pro Series (1:00)
7:00 p.m. ESPN NFL Football Preseason. Buf. at Clev. (Live) (3:00)
SYFY WWE Smackdown! (2:00)
8:00 p.m. ESPN2 ATP Tennis Men’s and Women’s Fourth Round Western & Southern Open. (Live) (2:00)
GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
8:30 p.m. GOLF PGA Golf Round 1 Wyndham Championship. (3:00)
9:00 p.m. FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN Mecum Dealmakers (1:00)
9:30 p.m. FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
10:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
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12:30 p.m. NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Final Practice Irwin Tools Night Race. (Live) (1:00)
1:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
FSN John Gillespie’s Waters & Woods (0:30)
1:30 p.m. FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR K&N Pro Series (1:00)
2:00 p.m. FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Wyndham Championship. (Live) (3:00)
2:30 p.m. FSN Outdoor Bound TV With Kurt Walbeck (0:30)
6:30 p.m. NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Xfinity Series Food City 300. (Live) (2:30)
7:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
8:00 p.m. GOLF CHAMPS Golf Round 1 Boeing Classic. (2:00)
9:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Tonight (Live) (1:00)
FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN Mobsteel (1:00)
9:30 p.m. FSN Swing Clinic (0:30)
10:00 p.m. (29) WFTC Vikings: Beyond the Gridiron (0:30)
ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 H.S. Basketball Slam Dunk Contest. (1:00)
FSN Three Wide Life (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
NBCSN Mobsteel (1:00)
10:15 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Sports Now (0:20)
10:30 p.m. FSN The Game 365 (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Wyndham Championship. (3:00)
11:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 Baseball Tonight (Live) (1:00)
FSN Cliff Diving (1:00)
NBCSN Mobsteel (1:00)
Saturday, Aug. 22
10:30 a.m. ESPN2 NFL’s Greatest Games (1:30)
FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)
HBO Hard Knocks (1:00)
11:00 a.m. FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central Pre-game (Live) (1:00)
NBCSN Premier League Live Bridge (Live) (0:30)
11:30 a.m. (11) KARE EPL Soccer (1:30)
ESPN Arm Wrestling World League. (1:00)
GOLF Feherty (1:00)
2:30 p.m. NBCSN IndyCar Chronicles (0:30)
3:00 p.m. ESPN Arm Wrestling World League. (1:00)
FSN UEFA Soccer Champions League. (2:00)
GOLF Altered Course (1:00)
NBCSN Racer TV (0:30)
3:30 p.m. (11) KARE FIVB Beach Volleyball World Series. (Live) (1:30)
NBCSN NASCAR America (0:30)
4:00 p.m. ESPN Hey Rookie, Welcome to the NFL (0:30)
ESPN2 Poker National Championship World Series. (1:00)
GOLF CHAMPS Golf Round 2 Boeing Classic. (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN NASCAR K&N Pro Series (1:00)
4:30 p.m. ESPN Hey Rookie, Welcome to the NFL (0:30)
5:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
ESPN2 Poker National Championship World Series. (1:00)
FSN Vikings Game Plan (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR America (Live) (1:00)
5:30 p.m. (9) KMSP Vikings Game Plan (0:30)
FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
6:00 p.m. (9) KMSP Fantasy Victory Draft Special (0:30)
ESPN2 WTA Tennis Semifinal Western & Southern Open. (Live) (4:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Bal. (Live) (3:00)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 3 Canadian Pacific Open. (Live) (3:00)
6:30 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Vikings Kickoff (Live) (0:30)
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ESPN2 ATP Tennis Men’s and Women’s Fourth Round Western & Southern Open. (2:00)
FSN Rooster Tales (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR K&N Pro Series (1:00)
10:30 p.m. FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)
11:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN Bull Riding Championship. (1:00)
NBCSN Rallycross Global. (1:30)
11:30 p.m. GOLF PGA Golf Round 1 Wyndham Championship. (3:00)
Friday, Aug. 21
11:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 His & Hers (Live) (1:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Bal. (2:00)
11:30 a.m. GOLF LPGA Golf Round 1
Canadian Pacific Open. (2:00)
Noon (9) KAWE Sit and Be Fit (0:30)
ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 ATP Tennis Men’s and Women’s Quarter-final Western & Southern Open. (Live) (4:00)
NBCSN NASCAR America (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Xfinity Series Qualifying Food City 300. (Live) (1:30)
3:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Bal. (2:00)
4:00 p.m. ESPN2 His & Hers (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR America (Live) (0:30)
4:30 p.m. ESPN2 Outside the Lines (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Qualifying Irwin Tools Night Race. (Live) (1:30)
5:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
ESPN2 SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN Minnesota Traveler (0:30)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 2 Canadian Pacific Open. (Live) (3:00)
5:30 p.m. FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
6:00 p.m. ESPN2 ATP Tennis Men’s and Women’s Quarter-final Western & Southern Open. (Live) (4:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Bal. (Live) (3:00)
NBCSN Countdown to Green (Live) (0:30)
FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
NBCSN F1 Auto Racing Qualifying Belgian Grand Prix. (1:30)
Noon ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
ESPN2 ATP Tennis Semifinal Western & Southern Open. (Live) (4:00)
FSN NFL Football Pre-season. T.B. at Min. (3:00)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Wyndham Championship. (Live) (1:30)
12:30 p.m. (7) KCCO Golf Resorts International (0:30)
1:00 p.m. (5) KSTP World of X Games (1:00)
(7) KCCO Off-Road Racing Lucas Oil Series Pro 4 and Pro 2 (1:00)
(11) KARE Premier League Download (Live) (1:00)
NBCSN IndyCar Auto Racing IndyCar Series Qualifying ABC Supply 500. (Live) (1:30)
1:30 p.m. GOLF Golf Central Pre-game
(Live) (0:30)
2:00 p.m. (5) KSTP Baseball Elimination Game Little League World Series. (Live) (2:30)
(7) KCCO PGA Golf Round 3 Wyndham Championship. (Live) (3:00)
(9) KMSP (15) KVRR USGA Golf Third Round U.S. Amateur. (Live) (3:00)
(11) KARE IAAF Track & Field (1:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Irwin Tools Night Race. (Live) (3:30)
7:00 p.m. (9) KMSP NFL Football Preseason. Oak. at Min. (Live) (3:00) (15) KVRR NFL Football Pre-season. Min. at Oak. (Live) (3:00)
ESPN Baseball Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
9:00 p.m. ESPN Baseball Tonight (Live) (1:00)
FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central (1:00)
9:30 p.m. FSN Baseball in the Dominican Republic (0:30)
10:00 p.m. (23) WUCW Ring of Honor Wrestling (1:00)
ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 NHRA Drag Racing Mello Yello Series Qualifying Lucas Oil Nationals. (2:00)
FSN GL Soccer B. Muni. vs. Hoff. (2:00)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Wyndham Championship. (3:00)
NBCSN Sprint Cup Series Post-Race (Live) (0:30)
10:30 p.m. NBCSN AMA Motocross Lucas Oil Pro Ironman National. (2:00) 11:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00) Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Sports Aug 16, 2015 to Aug 22, 2015
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ThatAlton Brown sure is a diabolical mastermind. “Cutthroat Kitchen,” the Food Network cooking competition he hosts, really is a loveit-or-hate-it kind of affair, with a group of chefs cooking “Chopped” style while Brown pulls out one game-changing twist after another.
Well, the show that’s all about bizarre twists being thrown at its competitors now has a twist of its own.
“Camp Cutthroat” premiered last week, and the five-episode series is continuing Wednesday evenings.
Brown’s traded in his metaphorical host’s hat for a camp counselor’s,
and he’s taken 12 chefs with as much cunning as they have cooking skills to a top-secret location deep in the wilderness. There, while braving biting mosquitoes, unpredictable weather and rustic facilities, these culinary challengers are quickly discovering that their biggest challenge isn’t the location — it’s each other.
In last week’s premiere, while three chefs struggled to enjoy the great outdoors, Brown unleashed his diabolism onto them. Two chefs were blindfolded and given a challenge with pork and beans — a classic camping meal. Another found the answer to the age-old mystery of just what bears get up to in the woods, while later a remarkably per-
sistent rain cloud decided to hover over the proceedings.
It’s incredibly over the top, but that’s what’s made “Cutthroat Kitchen” such a hit. At the end of the day, these chefs have to put out great food no matter what weirdness is thrown at them, and it’s truly remarkable to see the skill that they employ in the kitchen — or in this case, in the wilderness.
Future episodes will see the chefs cooking while hanging from a rock
wall, and cooking up breakfast atop a lookout tower and trying to hold things together while braving high winds.
Of course, there’s a big reason why the chefs subject themselves to this, and that reason is as green as the wilderness in which they find themselves. “Camp Cutthroat’s” ultimate winner will take home a cool $75,000 in cold, hard cash. A much better souvenir than mosquito bites, I’d say.
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9:30 a.m. (23) WUCW Mad Dogg and Merrill’s Midwestern Grill’n
11:30 a.m. (8) WDSE Beatrice
Ojakangas: Welcome to My Kitchen
1:00 p.m. (9) KAWE Pati’s Mexican Table
1:30 p.m. (9) KAWE Barbecue University With Steven Raichlen
4:30 p.m. (9) KAWE Food Forward
Monday, Aug. 17
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Foods America 10:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America 11:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations 11:30 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations Tuesday, Aug. 18 2:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise 3:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods 4:30 p.m. TRAV Man v. Food 5:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods 6:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods 9:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America 10:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Wednesday, Aug. 19 8:00 a.m. TRAV BBQ Crawl 8:30 a.m. TRAV BBQ Crawl 9:00 a.m. TRAV BBQ Crawl 9:30 a.m. TRAV BBQ Crawl 10:00 a.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations 10:30 a.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations 11:00 a.m. TRAV Food Paradise Noon TRAV Food Paradise 1:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise 3:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods 4:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods 5:00 p.m. TRAV Man v. Food 5:30 p.m. TRAV Man v. Food 8:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise (N) 9:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise (N) 10:00 p.m. TRAV Man Finds Food 10:30 p.m. TRAV Man Finds Food 11:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Thursday, Aug. 20 7:00 p.m. (11) KARE Food Fighters (N) Saturday, Aug. 22 8:30 a.m. (2) KTCA Project Smoke 9:00 a.m. (2) KTCA Pati’s Mexican Table TRAV American Grilled 9:30 a.m. (2) KTCA Lidia’s Kitchen 10:00 a.m. (2) KTCA Cooking With Nick Stellino TRAV American Grilled 10:30 a.m. (2) KTCA Sara’s Weeknight Meals (7) KCCO Recipe Rehab 11:00 a.m. (2) KTCA Cook’s Country From America’s Test Kitchen 11:30 a.m. (2) KTCA America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated Noon (2) KTCA New Scandinavian Cooking (9) KAWE America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated TRAV Food Paradise 12:30 p.m. (2) KTCA Wisconsin Foodie 1:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise 2:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise 2:30 p.m. (8) WDSE Cook’s Country From America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 p.m. (2) KTCA The Mind of a Chef (8) WDSE America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated 3:30 p.m. (2) KTCA The Mind of a Chef 4:00 p.m. (2) KTCA BBQ With Franklin 4:30 p.m. (2) KTCA BBQ With Franklin 5:00 p.m. (2) KTCA Project Smoke 5:30 p.m. (2) KTCA America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Food Aug 16, 2015 to Aug 22, 2015 Alton Brown hosts “Camp Cutthroat” Wicked in the wilderness: ‘Camp Cutthroat’ gives cooking competitions an outdoor twist Cooking this week NEW FILTER, OIL, LUBRICATE CHASSIS IF APPLICABLE – No Appointment Necessary 1 Washington St. NE, Brainerd 218-829-1668 $ 6 00 Off & QUICK LUBE $ 20 00 Off Our Local Family Serving Your Local Family. FREE INSPECTION! Up to 5 quarts, most vehicles. Must present this coupon to get this price. Expires 9/4/15. Not valid with any other offer. Not valid with any other offer. Expires 9/4/15. YOUR BRAKE SERVICE HEADQUARTERS Foreign & Domestic Sizzling Summer SPECIALS 001288432r1 001287949r1
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Strangerland
Married couple Matthew (Fiennes) and Catherine (Kidman) Parker are having trouble fitting in to their new lives in a remote town deep in the Australian Outback. They mostly keep to themselves, but when their two children disappear into the surrounding wilderness just as a deadly dust storm is blowing in, the parents must team up with their neighbors. With the local cop (Weaving) leading the search through the dust-choked darkness, it soon becomes clear that something sinister has happened to the two youths, and the locals begin to turn against the outsiders in their midst.
Director:KimFarrant.Stars:Nicole
Kidman,HugoWeaving,JosephFiennes,MaddisonBrown,Sean Keenan.2015.112min.Drama.
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Brian (Yelchin) is an aspiring writer living in the Big Apple who bumps into a beautiful French woman (Thirlby) in front of a hotel one fateful day. Though she is a decade older than he is, the two strangers hit it off well, and she tells him that she wants to see him again, but that she’s only available between 5 and 7 p.m. It turns out that she’s the wife of a diplomat, and the two begin a passionate affair.
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Joseph Fiennes and Nicole Kidman star
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