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A Bobcat (Goldthwait) changes his spots

By Neal Justin

series like they did with “21 Jump Street,” except this time it’s going to be a comedy.

Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Q. You could easily have been MINNEAPOLIS — Bobcat Goldthwait remembered for just doing a puppet on is dead — at least the high-pitched, fran“Unhappily Ever After” and being the tic, off-the-hook version who once tossed guy from “Police Academy.” Instead, furniture off the set of “Late Night With you’ve turned into a respected filmmakConan O’Brien” and lit the guest chair on er. Was that always the plan? fire on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”

A. No. It took me a long time to find The comedian, who turns 50 next what I enjoy doing the most before I got month, has settled down into a respectsidetracked. I was getting involved in able career behind the scenes, helming movies and projects that didn’t interest “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for nearly three me. I’m partially to blame because I was years and making dark, thought-provoksaying yes to everything. What I’m doing ing films, including 2009’s “World’s Great- now isn’t as lucrative, but it’s easier for me est Dad,” which featured one of Robin Wil- to sleep at night. liams’ strongest performances, and “God Q. Your latest film stars Joel MurBless America,” a modern-day Bonnie and ray, a respected character actor, but Clyde adventure. not exactly a household name. Is there Goldthwait talked earlier this month pressure from investors to call up your about his change in behavior, an upcombuddy Robin Williams when it comes to ing collaboration with the Kinks’ Ray casting?

Davies and why he has an amazing collecA. No. The guys who finance my movies tion of hats. believe in me and let me do what I want Q. You said in 2005 that you were to do. They’re very, very low-budget films. retiring from stand-up. Was that a joke? It’s not like they lend themselves to be A. I retired like Cher and KISS retire. I filmed in 3-D. still like going out there, but I’m not doing Q. You’re working with Ray Davies my ’80s persona anymore. It became more on a musical featuring songs from the and more limiting. I’m just myself. If I lose Kinks. What’s that been like? some fans because of that, it’s OK. I do try A. It’s got a bigger budget, which has to defuse the situation early in my act. One made it harder to get going, but it’ll get of my favorite new jokes is that they’re made. They’re my favorite band. At first, talking to Ray was like the “Chris Farley going to reboot the “Police Academy”

Show” on “SNL.” I was stuttering and sweating the whole time. I don’t stutter anymore.

Q. Directing a talk show seems to be a very different challenge from directing a feature film. Was there anything you learned from your time at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that helped you when it came to movies?

A. I super-enjoyed my time there.

When I was a boy, I was a janitor at my high school and worked in a grocery store, but as an adult, I never had a steady day job. It was great seeing the same people every day. The one thing I learned is the ability to make decisions really quickly.

Q. You have an amazing collection of hats. Is there a story behind that?

A. Funny, I just stored 100 of them in my garage. One of the reasons, of course, was that I was going bald. But I also wore a different hat to “Kimmel” every night. If you’re wearing a silly hat, it’s hard to lose your temper. You don’t take yourself too seriously.

Q. Do you think you’ll ever be invited back on “The Tonight Show”?

A. You know, people think I was banned. I was banned as much as Ricky Gervais was from the Golden Globes. I was actually on a week after it (the fire) happened. I think I’d be back on if they thought I was famous enough. I’m not anymore.

Music Merle Haggard takes a trip down memory lane in Nashville.

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Director Bobcat Goldthwait from the film ‘World’s Greatest Dad’ poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 2009. Once known for his over-the-top antics, Goldthwait has settled down over the last several years and has been directing movies and working behind the scenes on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’

Movies

This week’s movie releases:

Cast makes ‘Think Like a Man’ appealing.

“Chimpanzee” “The Lucky One” “Think Like a Man”

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April 20-26, 2012

New exhibit in Atlanta sheds light on Titanic officer

By Peter Prengaman

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Associated Press

rom the pitch-black depths 2½ miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of William Murdoch, the bridge officer who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg.

The artifacts — including a shoe brush, straight razor and pipe — are the first to be specifically linked to Murdoch, who gained added notoriety after James Cameron’s polemical portrayal of him in the 1997 blockbuster movie “Titanic.”

In the film, Murdoch accepts bribes, kills two people trying to get on lifeboats and shoots himself in desperation as the ship sinks. Historical accounts, however, say Murdoch gave the order to try to avoid a collision and acted selflessly to get passengers on lifeboats.

“This will bring Murdoch back front and center to the tragedy,” said Bill Sauder, who manages Titanic research for RMS Titanic Inc. The company oversees the artifacts and gave The Associated Press an exclusive look at a new exhibit now open at Premier Exhibitions in Atlanta.

The movie created a furor when it came out. Murdoch’s extended family and people from his hometown of Dalbeattie, Scotland, were angered. They asked that movie credits be amended when the video version of the Oscar-winning film was released.

The studio, 20th Century Fox, refused.

Executives said the movie was never intended to be a reflection of real events, and that Murdoch was portrayed as a hero because he saved many lives before taking his own. Eventually, the studio issued a personal apology and made a contribution to an annual Murdoch memorial prize that Dalbeattie High School had given out since 1912, the year the Titanic sank.

Attempts to find Murdoch’s extended family of Murdoch by contacting community members who had had contact with a now-deceased nephew of Murdoch were unsuccessful.

“There was no controversy about Murdoch shooting himself until the movie came out,” said Lee W. Merideth, a Titanic expert and author of “1912 Facts About

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Alexandra Klingelhofer, vice president of collections for Premier Exhibitions, Inc., holds a pipe belonging to William Murdoch, the bridge officer aboard the Titanic, in Atlanta. From the pitch-black depths 2½ miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of Murdoch, who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg.

Titanic.” “Cameron took a lot of liberties, and that’s why historians don’t like the movie.”

Controversy aside, Merideth said the artifacts are a significant find and will help viewers make a personal connection to an important historical figure.

“If that is his pipe, that means he smoked it at one time,” said Merideth. “All this stuff belonged to somebody.”

Recovering artifacts from the depths of the North Atlantic is painstaking work.

Teams are only allowed to gather material from what is known as the “debris field,” an area outside the actual ship; by court order, artifacts can’t be taken from inside the vessel, which broke into two pieces when it sank.

The Murdoch items are part of some 5,500 artifacts put up for auction as one lot. They include: clothing, fine china, gold coins, silverware and “The Big Piece” — a 17-ton section of the Titanic’s hull. Many of the artifacts are part of a handful of exhibits around the United States and one

in Singapore.

The collection was appraised in 2007 at $189 million, and the public company decided to auction the collection in response to shareholders’ wishes.

Connecting items to owners is often impossible. Researchers have only been able to link a handful of passengers or crew members directly to artifacts, usually with items like suitcases, trunks or wallets. The Murdoch artifacts were found in 2000, but just recently linked to the former officer.

The central clue came with the initials “W.M.” embossed on a toiletry kit, said Alexandra Klingelhofer, Premier’s vice president of collections.

Some of the items inside the toiletry kit, like a button, the razor and long-johns, would seem to belong to Murdoch. Officers were given uniforms, but had to buy their own buttons, making easily-accessible spares necessary, said Klingelhofer.

And while early in his life Murdoch wore a beard, he began shaving it after marrying,

she said.

Officers and crew members often had several pairs of long-johns, necessary for frigid overnight watch shifts.

The items “bring you face to face with things that belonged to a man so integral to the story,” said Klingelhofer.

The items are displayed together on a table under glass. While the long-johns and toilet kit are faded and have holes, the button sparkles, and the pipe and brush appear in good enough condition to be used today, extraordinary considering they spent 88 years in the ocean.

Behind the case is a portrait of Murdoch, along with blurbs about his upbringing and attempts to skirt the iceberg.

“He did what an officer should do,” said Klingelhofer. “He followed orders and got people into the lifeboats, and I think that tells you something about the man himself.”

Associated Press writer Ben McConville contributed to this report from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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April 20-26, 2012

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get out and do something: Music, theater, art and more in calhoun county

20 friDAY

MUSIC Wayne Reaves and the Heartbreakers What: Country, bluegrass When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Golden Saw Music Hall, Williams Community, Jacksonville Cost: Free Contact: 256-435-4696 Karaoke When: 7 p.m.

Where: American Legion Post 155, 1780 Beck Road, Bynum Cost: Free. Members and guests welcome Contact: 256-238-8644 DJ and Karaoke When: 7 p.m.

Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. Highway 431, Anniston Cost: Free and open to the public (ages 21+) Contact: 256-238-8047 Jazz Band Concert feat.

Brian Lynch on trumpet What: JSU jazz band When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Mason Hall Performance Hall, Mason Hall, JSU campus Cost: Free Contact: 256-782-5883 10/55 What: Country, rock Where: Upstairs in loft, The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300 Riley Green What: Acoustic country rock When: 8 p.m.

Where: Blu’s Bar, 1013 U.S. Highway 431, Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-235-0613 DJ Rockin’ Roger When: 8 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-832-5000

Bobby Thomas What: Country, rock, blues When: 8 p.m.

Where: F&W Bar and Grille, 12175 Stemley Road, Lincoln Cost: Free Contact: 256-294-2193 DJ What: Dance music Where: Downstairs, The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300 DJ Shon Don When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Peerless Saloon, 13 W. 10th St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-1899 Angie Kill When: 10 p.m.

Where: Pelham’s, 116 Ladiga St. SW, Jacksonville Cost: Free Contact: 256-435-7455

Saloon and

Monday through Saturday

DINE IN OR CARRY OUT Open 10 am

APRIL AND MAY SPECIAL

FIFTY - CENT WINGS (Tax not included)

13 and 15 West 10th Street Historic Downtown Anniston (256) 238-1899 Where: Dugger Mountain Music Hall, 15081 Highway 9, Piedmont Cost: Donations accepted Contact: 256-447-4846

Karaoke When: 7 p.m.

Herrick Where: American Legion When: 10 p.m.

Post 155, 1780 Beck Road, Where: Brothers, 206 Pelham Bynum Road S., Jacksonville Cost: Free. Members and Cost: $5 for under 21, $3 for 21 guests welcome and up Contact: 256-238-8644 Contact: 256-435-6090 Full Circle Band event When: 7-11 p.m.

Wine Tasting Where: American Legion When: 1-6 p.m.

Post 19, Heflin Where: White Oak Vineyards, Cost: $5 1484 Dry Hollow Road, Contact: 256-236-0340 Anniston Cost: Free DJ Rockin’ Roger Contact: 256-231-7998 When: 8 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston Cost: Free MUSIC Contact: 256-832-5000 Nothin’ Fancy What: Country Larry Keel & Friends When: 6 p.m.

What: Easy listening Where: Rabbittown Café and When: 8 p.m.

Fiddlers Hall, 900 Rabbittown Where: Blu’s Bar, 1013 U.S. Road, Piedmont Highway 431, Anniston Cost: $5 Cost: Free Contact: 256-435-8008 Contact: 256-235-0613

21saturDAY

Foggy Hollow, Ronnie Kisor & Friends What: Bluegrass When: 6 p.m.

Bobby Thomas What: Country, rock, blues When: 8 p.m.

Where: F&W Bar and Grille,

12175 Stemley Road, Lincoln Cost: Free Contact: 256-294-2193 Southern Nites What: Rock, country, blues When: 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. Highway 431, Anniston Cost: $5, public welcome Contact: 256-238-8047 Kevin Moon and the Outlaw Justice Band What: Rock, country When: 8:30 p.m.

Where: The loft of The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300 Revive Saturday with DJ Daddy and DJ B Radd When: 9 p.m.

Where: Downstairs of The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: TBD Contact: 256-741-9300 Julie Gribble What: Americana When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Peerless Saloon, 13 W. 10th St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-1899 The Hutch Edwards Project What: Rock

When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Heroes American Grill, 8896 McClellan Blvd., Anniston Cost: $4 Contact: 256-405-4366 events Plant sale What: Unusual perennials for sun and shade, trees, and shrubs will be available. The sale benefits the 4H program at the Coosa Valley Attention Home.

When: 8-11 a.m.

Where: Cane Creek Community Gardens, McClellan Cost: Free, items priced as marked Contact: 256-237-1621 Noble Street Festival What: Bike race, food vendors, live music, kids’ activities and more When: 10 a.m.

Cost: Free Contact: 256-236-0996 Wine Tasting When: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where: White Oak Vineyards, 1484 Dry Hollow Road, Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-231-7998 Wine Tasting When: 4-6 p.m.

Where: Wine Cellar, 309 Quintard Ave., Anniston Cost: $5 Contact: 256-237-5996

22 sunDAY MUSIC Karaoke with Russ When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300 Karaoke When: 8 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-5996

23 monDAY MUSIC Karaoke by Mossburg When: 8-11 p.m.

Where: Jefferson’s, 407 Pelham Road N., Jacksonville Cost: Free Contact: 256-435-3456

24tuesDAY

MUSIC Karaoke When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300 Karaoke When: 8 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-5996 event Trivia Night When: 7-10 p.m.

Where: Mellow Mushroom, 33 Industrial Drive, Oxford Cost: Free Contact: 256-835-1444

25wednesDAY MUSIC Open Mic Night What: All musicians welcome When: 5:30-7 p.m.

Where: American Legion Post 26, 515 E. 18th St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-236-9314 after 2 p.m.

Bobby Thomas What: Country, rock, blues When: 7-11 p.m.

Where: F&W Bar and Grille, 12175 Stemley Road, Lincoln (Embry/Lincoln exit on I-20) Cost: Free Contact: 256-294-2193 Karaoke by Mossburg When: 9 p.m.

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April 20-26, 2012

Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dies at 71

By Michael Hill Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — With songs like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek,” The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story.

In truth, the group had only one American — Levon Helm.

Helm, the drummer and singer who brought an urgent beat and a genuine Arkansas twang to some of The Band’s best-known songs and helped turn a bunch of musicians known mostly as Bob Dylan’s backup group into one of rock’s most legendary acts, has died. He was 71.

Helm, who was found to have throat cancer in 1998,

Where: Applebee’s, 612 E. Hamric Drive, Oxford Cost: Free Contact: 256-835-2434 Willow and Dan When: 10 p.m.

Where: Pelham’s, 116 Ladiga St. SW, Jacksonville Cost: Free Contact: 256-435-7455 events Lunch and Learn What: “Stone Structure Sites on Choccolocco Mountain” presented by Harry Holstein of the JSU Archeology Department.

When: Noon-1 p.m.

Where: Cane Creek Community Gardens, McClellan Cost: Free, bring your own lunch Contact: 256-237-1621 Shuffleboard Tournament When: 7 p.m.

Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. Highway 431, Anniston Cost: Free and open to the public (ages 21+) Contact: 256-238-8047

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Levon Helm, right, performs with his band on the “Imus in the Morning” program on the Fox Business channel, in New York, Oct. 9, 2009. Helm died Thursday of complications from cancer. died Thursday afternoon of complications from cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York

City, said Lucy Sabini of Vanguard Records. On Tuesday, a message on his website said he was in the final stages of

CAST to perform Pulitzer Prize-winner “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”

cancer.

Helm and his bandmates — Canadians Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson and Richard Manuel — were musical virtuosos who returned to the roots of American music in the late 1960s as other rockers veered into psychedelia, heavy metal and jams. The group’s 1968 debut, “Music From the Big Pink,” and its follow-up, “The Band,” remain landmark albums of the era, and songs such as “The Weight,” “Dixie Down” and “Cripple Creek” have become rock standards.

Early on, The Band backed Dylan on his sensational and controversial electric tours of 1965-66 and collaborated with him on the legendary “Basement Tapes,” which produced “I Shall Be Released,” “Tears of Rage” and many other favorites.

Community Actors’ Studio Theater closes out this season with a production of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Set in the Mississippi Delta, the play is about a Southern family in crisis: Patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, “the Delta’s biggest cotton-planter” is unaware that he is dying of cancer, and his children and their families are battling for the inheritance, as well as ghosts from the past.

The play runs Thursday, April 26May 6 at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students and children and Thursdays are “pay what you want” night. For more information, call 256-820-2278 or visit www.castalabama.com.

Read a full story about CAST’s production in the April 27 issue of Escapes.

— Deirdre Long, Entertainment editor

get out and do something Texas Hold ‘Em When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300

26thursday MUSIC Scott Grant What: Easy listening, jazz, blues When: 6-9 p.m.

Where: Garfrerick’s Cafe, 655 Creekside Drive, Oxford Cost: Free Contact: 256-831-0044 Karaoke When: 7 p.m.

Where: American Legion Post 155, 1780 Beck Road, Bynum (behind the post office) Cost: Free. Members and guests welcome.

Contact: 256-238-8644 Mossburg Karaoke When: 7-10 p.m.

Where: Mellow Mushroom

patio, 33 Industrial Drive, Oxford Cost: Free Contact: 256-831-1444 Karaoke When: 8 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-5996 Karaoke with DJ Russ When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Smoking Moose, 1214 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-741-9300 Karaoke with John Shaver When: 8 p.m.

Where: Blu’s Bar, 1013 U.S. Highway 431, Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-235-0613 Open Mic with Riley Green When: 10 p.m.

Where: Heroes American Grille, 8896 McClellan Blvd., Jacksonville Cost: Free

Contact: 256-405-4366 DJ Sky When: 9 p.m.

Where: Pelham’s, 116 Ladiga St. SW, Jacksonville Cost: Free Contact: 256-435-7455 Theater “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” What: Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee Williams’ drama, presented by CAST. Because of adult language and content, this play is for mature audiences.

When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: JSU/McClellan Theater, 100 Gamecock Drive, Anniston Cost: $20 for adults, $10 for students and children.

Thursdays are “pay what you want” night Contact: 256-820-2278 or www.castalabama.com events Wine Tasting When: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Where: Tyson Art & Frame,

3326 Henry Road, Anniston Cost: $5 Contact: 256-236-9910 Darts When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. Highway 431, Anniston Cost: Free. Public welcome.

Contact: 256-238-8047 ★★★ Exhibits Art exhibit What: Ongoing exhibit by East Alabama Artistis Inc. and other gallery artists including oil and acrylic paintings, works on paper, pottery, gourds, jewelry and fiber arts.

When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturday Where: Noble Gallery inside Nunnally’s Custom Framing, 1014 Noble St., Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-5921 Out of the Vault: Selections from The Illustrated History

of Weaponry What: Berman Museum of World History unfurls the first in a new series of changing exhibitions set to feature rare and unique collections items, not on permanent display.

When: 10 a.m.-5 a.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday Where: Berman Museum of World History, 840 Museum Drive, Anniston Cost: $5 per adult; $ 4.50 per senior (age 60+); $4 per child (ages 4-17); children under 3 are free Contact: 256-237-6261 or www.bermmanmuseum.org

To contribute to the free calendar, contact Deirdre Long at 256-2353580 or dlong@annistonstar.com Listings must be received at least seven days in advance of event.

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April 20-26, 2012

Merle Haggard takes trip down memory lane in Nashville

By Chris Talbott

Waylon Jennings’ final studio recordings due in September

By Randy Lewis

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In a lot of ways, Merle Haggard has always moved to a country music soundtrack.

The music he loved changed his life repeatedly. He was born in the perfect place to become a star — Bakersfield, Calif. — and after an often rocky start, succeeded in achieving heights few have reached.

“They called it by a different name,” Haggard said. “They called it hillbilly music. And I liked it from the very first memories of life. I liked other music, too.

I liked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra and people like that. But there was kind of an original hillbilly sound that was coming from around Bakersfield that went on to be world famous. And I was not smart enough at the time to realize it was happening.”

Haggard was in a lighthearted mood this week as Music City celebrated an icon who feels reinvigorated after a long period of poor health. He toured the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum’s new Bakersfield Sound exhibit, its tribute to the wave of California musicians who made a play for the soul of country music in the 1950s and ’60s.

He popped up as a surprise guest at Keith Urban and Vince Gill’s All For The Hall benefit concert. He joined Twitter and tweeted often. And he capped a busy 48 hours with a raucous Ryman Auditorium show that drew an eclectic crowd that included mustachioed young hipsters and octogenarians.

A week after he turned 75, Haggard spent a lot of time reminiscing and thinking about the past, something he admits he enjoys.

“It’s been an interesting life, to say the least,” Haggard said.

Bakersfield’s rise to national acclaim mirrored Haggard’s own. Both started out as ragged ruffians in a barroom scene populated by oil roustabouts and Saturday night party people before riding the rise of television to take the U.S. by storm.

Haggard and the music he helped popularize with figures like Buck Owens were direct counterpoints to the increasingly sophisticated Nashville sound. After walking through the exhibit, Haggard sat in the museum’s reading room with old friend

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Merle Haggard views an exhibit on the Bakersfield Sound at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn., April 10, 2012. and steel guitar player Fuzzy Owen, his bandleader Norm Hamlet, longtime tour manager Frank Mull and others to talk about Bakersfield and its lasting impact.

“The difference between Nashville music and Bakersfield music was barrooms,” Haggard said. “They didn’t have barrooms here. It was church music and the Saturday night Grand Ole Opry ... there was a religious air about it. Whereas Bakersfield seemed to come from the barrooms. It was electric. Electrified. Telecasters. Our town probably did more for the sale of telecasters than anybody in the world.”

Haggard admits to knowing a thing or two about the bar scene of the day.

Born in 1937, he entered the 1950s at an impressionable age. Country music seemed like it was everywhere. It rolled out of the radio and every little town had a new TV station with an hour dedicated to a sound that resonated within the rural communities of California populated by Okies, Arkies and others who went West for work.

The chance to see live music was all around, too.

“There was probably 25 beer joints with bands in them in Bakersfield, and I was at a questionable age as to whether I could go in,” Haggard said. “I went in anyway.”

As the exhibit points out, it wasn’t long till those kinds of decisions got Haggard in trouble. He served three years in San Quentin for burglary and a series of nonviolent crimes. While in prison, country music intervened again when Johnny Cash played for inmates. The performance inspired Haggard to pursue the slightly more upstanding lifestyle of country music.

His first gig was playing bass in Buck Owens’ band, and he joked that he spent much of his early career filling jobs Owens had recently vacated. He put together his own band, The Strangers, in 1965.

Haggard would go on to write iconic songs like “Workin’ Man’s Blues” and “Okie From Muskogee,” songs he shared with thousands of fans in Nashville during his stay.

The visit comes three months after Haggard was treated for double pneumonia, then diagnosed with stomach ulcers and colon polyps. Dressed in his trademark black hat, a gray sporting jacket, ornate white cowboy boots and a Life Is Good sweatshirt, Haggard looked fit and strong while touring the museum. He also was a forceful presence on stage with The Strangers, an outfit that now includes his son, Ben. “I feel better than I have in many years,” Haggard said.

LOS ANGELES — Country outlaw Waylon Jennings was working on a new batch of recordings right before he died 10 years ago, and those sessions are at the heart of a final studio collection to be released in September, “Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Last Recordings of Waylon Jennings.”

In the studio, he had been working with longtime bassist Robby Turner, but jennings they had recorded only Jennings’ vocals and guitar, and Turner’s bass, with plans to flesh them out with additional instrumentation. Jennings died Feb. 13, 2002, at age 64 of diabetes.

Recently Turner went back to those recordings and brought in former Jennings cohorts — guitarist Reggie Young, drummer Richie Albright and singer, songwriter and Jennings’ former tourmate Tony Joe White — to add the sounds Jennings and Turner originally discussed.

Of the dozen songs on “Goin’ Down Rockin’,” 11 were written by Jennings, the 12th song being White’s title track. The recordings, slated for release on Sept. 11, have never previously been available to the public.

“Waylon knows he’s surrounded by friends and all that hear this will feel as if they know Waylon in all his authenticity,” said his widow, singersongwriter Jessi Colter, in a statement with the news of the album’s release.

“To me, this is classic Waylon music every bit as good as his ‘70s classics, but his singing bears a vulnerable and deeply personal touch,” said Mike Jason, senior vice president of retail at Saguaro Road Records, which is putting out the album in conjunction with Time Life Records.

“Waylon still has many fans, but with these recordings I’m confident that we’ll introduce him to a new generation in the same way that Johnny Cash’s last recordings found him an entirely new audience.”

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April 20-26, 2012

Reviews | Music

Mraz celebrates love on 4th album

By Sandy Cohen Associated Press

Jason Mraz, “Love is a Four Letter Word” (Atlantic) Jason Mraz is true to the title of his new album, singing about all kinds of love on “Love is a Four Letter Word.”

The 33-year-old singersongwriter explores romantic notions, familial bonds and big, universal love on his fourth studio release. He also expands his folk-pop sensibilities to include reggae and jazz rhythms layered with horns and vocal harmonies.

Mraz is at his best with his guitar and silky, lilting voice front and center, as on the soaring “93 Million Miles,” where he sings reassuringly, “Just know you’re never alone; you can always come back home.”

He continues that theme of connection on the happy sing-along “Everything is Sound,” the single “I Won’t Give Up” and the upbeat “Living in the Moment,” singing, “Wherever I’m going, I’m already home.”

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Singer songwriter Jason Mraz performs at the ‘Liberal Arts’ premiere party at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22, 2012 in Park City, Utah.

Mraz gets jazzy as he pleads for truth on “Be Honest” and sings about the joy of music on the reggae-flavored album opener, “The Freedom Song.” He offers an admiring tribute to his grandfather on

“Frank D. Fixer,” which closes with a rollicking harmonica solo.

The songs about heartache don’t detract from the optimistic vibe of this 12song collection, which Mraz

has described as “personal, melodic and mellow.”

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: Mraz digs into a groovy, lounge-like sound and occasionally stretches his voice into a falsetto on “5/6.”

Wainwright in top form singing about death

By Steven Wine Associated Press

Loudon Wainwright III, “Older Than My Old Man Now” (2nd Story Sound) This marvelous album will resonate with sons, daughters, parents, spouses or those mindful of their mortality.

In other words: everyone.

Few make the personal universal better than Loudon Wainwright III, and on “Older Than My Old Man Now,” he sings for us all on the topics of decline, death and family dysfunction.

These have been recurring subjects in the Wainwright oeuvre, but now that he’s 65 — and well aware his dad passed away at 63 — nearly every song touches on death. Even the novelty tunes fit with

the album’s theme — “Date Line” looks at the passage of time from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and the hilarious “My Meds” is a druggy tune for the Medicare crowd.

Inventive musical arrangements keep things from becoming too grim, and a large supporting cast helps, too.

Among those contributing are all four of Wainwright’s children and even his late father, who was a columnist for Life magazine. Loudon reads two eloquent essays by his dad that fit beautifully.

Also included is the only song co-writ-

ten by Wainwright and his late first wife, Kate McGarrigle, a tune from 1975 called “Over the Hill.” Some 37 years later, Wainwright finds the clock still running out.

The album closes with “Something’s Out to Get Me,” a ballad full of foreboding but also life-affirming. As the closing lyric notes, we’re all in this together.

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: Both funny and sad, “In C” ranks with Wainwright’s best songs. It begins as a spoof on his rudimentary piano playing but cuts to the bone when he begins airing out his family’s dirty laundry.

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2. Instagram (Burbn, Inc.) 3. Draw Something Free (OMGPOP) 4. Slide to Unlock ? (The Falco Initiative) 5. Oldify (Apptly LLC) 6. Viddy (Viddy, Inc.) 7. Flick Home Run ! New Free (infinity pocket) 8. Bike Race Free - by Top Free Games (Top Free Games) 9. Battle Duty: Modern Field 3 (Imba Entertainment) 10. Ringtone Maker - Make free ringtones from your music! (Zentertain Ltd.)

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Meagan Good is shown in a scene from ‘Think Like a Man,’ whichs opens in theaters today. The attractive and likable cast makes the movie enjoyable.

Cast makes ‘Think Like a Man’ appealing

By Christy Lemire

male romantic peculiarities that they’ve gleaned from the book — Tim Story’s film makes it seem What is essentially a shameas if every woman in Los Angeles less and overlong infomercial for carries it around all day like a Steve Harvey’s dating advice book Bible — so every move they make becomes more tolerable and even is calculated and executed straenjoyable at times with the help tegically to get what they want. of an attractive, likable cast in Conversely, the men grow suspi“Think Like a Man.” cious, find out that the book exists Harvey’s best-seller “Act Like and turn its words back on the a Lady, Think Like a Man” serves women as their own weapon to as the launching pad for four get what they want. intertwined stories in which These kinds of manipulative various types couple up and try to machinations seem arduous and make a go of it. There’s Dominic, archaic — and they did back in The Dreamer (Michael Ealy), the mid-1990s when they were and Lauren, The Woman Who better known as “The Rules,” Is Her Own Man (Taraji P. Hena book which itself arose from son); Zeke, The Player (Romany Eisenhower-era notions about Malco), and Mya, The 90-Daythe proper way for a lady to Rule Girl (Meagan Good); and so behave in a relationship. Gabrion. elle Union’s character — Kristen, But the ladies involved are The Ring Girl — comes off as armed with the knowledge of especially obnoxious when she Associated Press

think like a man HH1/2 rating: PG-13 for sexual content, some crude humor and brief drug use Running time: 2:02 Starring: Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Hart tosses out all the fanboy collectibles belonging to her boyfriend of nine years, Jeremy, The NonCommitter (Jerry Ferrara). It’s been nine years already — just leave the dude rather than forcing him to become who you want him to be.

I’m all for putting the best version of yourself out there and whatever happens, happens. But hey, the source material is what it

is, so what are you gonna do?

Story has a way with a comic ensemble cast, having directed “Barbershop”; he keeps things moving at a (mostly) lively clip and gives Los Angeles a glossy sheen. (Besides serving as an extended ad for Harvey’s book, “Think Like a Man” also feels like a promotional tourism video for certain sections of Culver City, where Sony’s studios are located, as well as the LA Live entertainment complex downtown.)

Ealy and Henson are insanely sexy together and, unlike the rest of the characters, they feel like actual grown-ups; the scene in which he brings her breakfast in bed, shirtless, is sure to inspire audible gasps. Stand-up comedian Kevin Hart is, unsurprisingly, a scene-stealer as the fasttalking, newly divorced guy of the bunch. The banter between

the male friends, who frequently meet to play basketball, provides a snappy energy as well as some amusing cameos. And you have to give “Think Like a Man” credit for not only trying to serve as an alternative to Tyler Perry-style date-night fare, but for even going so far as to make fun of those movies for their soapy conventions.

But the script from Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, who also wrote “Friends With Benefits,” is crammed with plot and gets bogged down with contrivances. Will Michael, The Mama’s Boy (Terrence J), finally snip those apron strings and find love with Candace, The Single Mom (Regina Hall)? Probably.

But only after a lot of time, angst and the kind of embarrassingly public I-love-yous that only take place in the movies.

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Two young police officers and ex-classmates go undercover at a local high school to investigate a dangerous drug ring. With Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson.

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A decade after their teen adventures in “American Pie,” a group of lifelong friends return to their hometown for a high school reunion. With Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan and Chris Klein. chimpanzee

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This nature documentary follows a baby chimpanzee and his family as they survive in the African forest. the hunger games

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In the post-apocalyptic ruins of North America, a teenage girl competes in a nationally televised battle to the death against 23 of her peers. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson.

Lockout

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An exiled princess enlists the help of a group of diminutive bandits to take back her usurped throne from an evil queen in this retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. With Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer and Sean Bean. the cabin in the woods

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The lucky one

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A Marine returns home from his third tour of duty in Iraq with his good-luck charm: a found photo of a woman he’s never met but intends to find and thank.

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Three infants left on a nun’s doorstep grow up to be knuckleheads who get embroiled in a strange murder plot and also stumble into a reality TV show. With Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos and Jane Lynch. think like a man

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Four men have their love lives shaken up when the women they are pursuing read a relationship-advice book and take its lessons to heart. With Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good and Regina Hall.

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WRATH OF THE TITANS

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Ten years after defeating the Kraken, the demigod Perseus must leave his quiet life to aid his father, Zeus, in a battle against the Titans. With Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy and Edgar Ramirez.

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Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt in a scene from ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,’ out this week on DVD.

‘MI:4’ tops new releases

By Rick Bentley McClatchy Newspapers

Topping this week’s DVD picks are a first-rate action film and a topnotch cable TV comedy.

“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,” Grade A: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) goes into action when the IMF is shut down.

If the goal of the latest big-screen version of the television series is to make the most eye-popping, boneshaking, heart-pounding installment yet, then there’s only one thing to say: Mission accomplished.

Whether Cruise is running at top speed, dangling from a building or trying to rally his frustrated team, he brings a confidence, charm and energy to the role. He’s the fuse that lights every explosive moment.

The supporting actors are just as impressive. Jeremy Renner brings a cold and professional caution to the spy team and shows such a grasp of the spy role that he could easily take over the franchise should Cruise decide to retire. Paula Patton proves that a spy can be beautiful and dangerous.

“My Boys: The Complete Fourth Season,” Grade B-plus: This is the kind of series that benefits highly from the release on DVD. The cable series, starring the very talented Jordana Spiro, who plays PJ Franklin,

didn’t have a big following when it was on the air. That’s a shame because it’s one of the better comedies to hit TV in recent years.

What makes the show so good is that PJ and her “boys” (Michael Bunin, Jim Gaffigan, Reid Scott and Kyle Howard) are the best group of friends on TV since “Friends.” The characters are original, not just pale copies of the “Friends” crew.

Also new on DVD this week: “All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection”: The Grateful Dead is featured in the 14-DVD box set.

“The Divide”: Nine strangers come together after a nuclear bomb attack.

“Robotropolis”: The human race struggles to escape extinction.

“Frozen Planet”: The series is narrated by David Attenborough.

“Bill Moyers: Capitol Crimes”: The documentary looks at politics, greed, and the buying and selling of influence at the highest levels of power.

“The Super Hero Squad Show: The Infinity Gauntlet Vol. 3”: Animated series where the fate of the universe rests in the hands of whoever wears the Infinity Gauntlet.

“Roger Corman’s The Nurses Collection”: Includes “Candy Stripe Nurses,” “Night Call Nurses,” “Private Duty Nurses” and “The Young Nurses.”

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Sparks don’t f ly with ‘The Lucky One’

By Christopher Kelly McClatchy Newspapers

“The Lucky One” is a like a corny old silent movie to which someone made the mistake of adding sound. Based on one of Nicholas Sparks’ overripe romance novels, it’s about a stoic, sensitive man who falls for a beautiful, but wounded woman, who must escape from the iron grip of her violent ex-husband.

For good measure, the movie also includes some hambone Hallmark-style narration about destiny and luck and choosing the right path in life, along with a few sun-baked shots of dogs romping through the grass. To call it drivel would be an insult to most drivel, which usually at least has earnestness on its side.

Zac Efron, who made a fast, flirty impression in “High School Musical,” “Hairspray” and even last year’s otherwise unwatchable “New Year’s Eve,” has beefed-up and quit smiling — a sure sign the young actor is desperate for us to take him seriously. Alas, his Logan Thibault is anything but flirty or fast, though he is very good at walking.

He travels on foot from Colorado to Louisiana, with his loyal German shepherd in tow, to track down a mysterious woman whose picture he found in the middle of a combat zone in Iraq. Her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling, from the NBC series “Mercy”), and her brother was killed in the war under mysterious circumstances.

Sparks, six of whose other novels have also been made into films, including “The Notebook,” “Nights in Rodanthe” and “The Last Song,” will never be celebrated for the elegance of his formulas: Boy usually meets girl, and fate or family or leukemia contrive to keep them apart. Until now the best thing that could be said for him is that he’s avoided devolving into utter tastelessness.

But “The Lucky One” — the screenplay adaptation is by Will Fetters — uses the tragedies of the war in Iraq as cheap fodder

Warner Bros. via Associated Press

Zac Efron, left, and Taylor Schilling are shown in a scene from ‘The Lucky One.’ and uneasy metaphor, about how we must constantly be seeking renewal even when the bullets are raining down upon us. The director, Scott Hicks (“Shine,” “Snow Falling on Cedars”) compounds the cynicism, by shooting everything in amber light or artful slow-motion — even a soldier getting shot by a sniper is just an excuse for him to show off cool editing tricks that distort the man’s face into a rubbery mask.

Arriving in Louisiana, Logan quickly finds Beth, who works at a kennel with her grandmother (Blythe Danner) on the bucolic outskirts of their bucolic small town, and worms his way into their lives — though somehow

he’s never able to tell her why he’s walked all this way from Colorado in the first place.

Beth is initially suspicious of him, but then she gets a glimpse of Logan tossing heavy bags of dog food around, all sensitive man sweat and decorously smudged dirt on his forehead, and from that point on she’s a goner. If only that pesky deputy sheriff, Keith (Jay R. Ferguson) — Beth’s politically connected ex-husband who keeps threatening to claim custody of their child (Riley Thomas Stewart) — didn’t keep getting in the way of their bliss.

The fact that this story contains not a single unpredictable

turn isn’t necessarily the problem: Hollywood romances are supposed to telegraph and delay the inevitable gratification. But there’s also no heat or spark in “The Lucky One,” nothing to make us care. Efron and Schilling are both lovely-looking specimens, evenly tanned and absent of any discernible fat cells — yet they don’t seem like real people, and they hardly seem turned on by one another.

At the screening I attended, the love scene sent titters through the audience, not because of any unruly passion, but because it is glowingly lit and woodenly performed — like “Cinemax After Dark” soft porn, except PG-13

the lucky one H rating: PG-13 for sexual content and violence Running time: 1:41 Starring: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner

rated.

The ending of the movie is even more laughable, with a pounding rain storm and a rickety rope bridge and the requisite child-in-peril screaming for his life. This movie’s shamelessness knows no depths.

The lucky one is anyone smart enough to stay home.

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Review | movie

Disney swings for the trees with ‘Chimpanzee’

By Roger Moore McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Disney via MCT

Isha the chimpanzee stars in Disney’s ‘Chimpanzee,’ which opens in theaters today.

Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys, whom they sometimes eat.

But “Chimpanzee” is also a throwback, a documentary that follows a baby chimp named Oscar as he struggles to learn the ways of his tribe and to survive in the dense rain forests of Africa’s Ivory Coast. It’s moving and entertaining as well as informative.

And as Tim Allen narrates and the chimps themselves provide moments of low comedy and high pathos, you might be reminded of the studio’s popular “True Life Adventures” nature docs of the last century — films which humanized, sometimes to the point of cloying, their wild and untamed subjects.

In a vast, fog-enshrouded jungle, we meet baby Oscar, his mom, Isha, and the chimp in charge of this tribe — Freddy, an alpha male tasked with keeping order and keeping other chimp packs from invading their turf, eating their figs and taking over the grove of nut trees that keeps Oscar’s extended family fed, even in the jungle’s lean months.

They’ve learned to use rocks and sticks to open the nuts. But despite this advantage, the vast “army” of chimps led by oneeyed “Scar” (of course) threatens to chase them to the hinterlands, where the food promises to be more scarce.

If you see allegories in human behavior among our primate

chimpanzee HHH rating: G Running time: 1:24 Starring: Narrated by Tim Allen cousins — battles over resources, clannishness — take that as purely intentional, too.

Allen’s narration makes this kid-friendly film even more so, though the script does tend toward underscoring that which is made obvious by the images on the screen. “Yum yum” at meal time, and the like. And since these chimpanzees use tools, you know “Tool Time” Allen will join them in a healthy grunt or two.

But that doesn’t spoil what is a lovely film, all extreme close-ups of chimps grooming, eating (with their mouths open), working out which rocks or sticks are good for cracking nuts and which aren’t. Watching the chimps hunt tiny monkeys (nothing remotely graphic is shown) for food is a lesson in role-playing, teamwork and elementary tactics. We see them build their intricate “sleeping platforms” at night, wash their food and pass down knowledge from parents to children. The detail presented here is amazing.

Nature itself makes a glorious set as we’re treated to stunning shots of fluorescent mushrooms and dazzling little-known waterfalls. After the omnibus documentary “Earth” and the broader “African Cats” (by the same filmmakers), Disney may have hit on just the right mix of information and entertainment with “Chimpanzee,” the best Disneynature film yet.

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❱ Word up reconnoiter \ree-kuh-NOI-ter\, verb; 1. To make an inspection or observation.

2. To inspect, observe, or survey (the enemy, the enemy’s strength or position, a region, etc.) in order to gain information for military purposes.

3. To examine or survey a region or area for engineering, geological, or other purposes.

Quotes: It was necessary to reconnoiter the corral, in order to ascertain if it was occupied.

— Jules Verne, “The Mysterious Island” I must ride up on that mountain, and reconnoiter; otherwise you see they might come down from the mountain.

— Leo Tolstoy, “A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories” Origin: Reconnoiter comes from the French word reconnoître meaning “to explore.”

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Laughter dissolves into darkness in Englander’s ‘Anne Frank’ “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” by Nathan Englander; Knopf, 2012; 224 pages; $24.95

ingly homogenized, commodified, technologized and secularized. Then there are the relevance

By William Hug of Jewish history (parSpecial to The Star ticularly the Holocaust) for postmodern Jews; Take the grittiness of Raymond Carver, anti-Semitism; varietadd a dash of Kafka’s dark surrealism, top ies of Jewish belief, it off with Marx Brothers zaniness and from the Hasidic you have Jewish-American writer Nathan and the Zionist to Englander. In this book, his second volthe utterly secular. ume of short fiction, craziness abounds: Even the Palestinian Devout Hasidim visit Jewish-American question is touched yuppies in South Florida, smoke cannabis on. and play Anne Frank games. Holocaust In treating survivors plot mayhem at a New Jersey these concerns, elderhostel; a Jewish-American business- Englander operman (with “a gorgeous Gentile wife”) ates dialectically. happens into a Manhattan peep show He offers alter— and finds himself ogling pudgy rabbis natives, not easy from his childhood, then his own mother. answers; characters are Much laughter here — but it dissolves often left shocked and/or confused, abruptly in edgy darkness. Englander and the reader pondering. This is no loves to turn on the narrative dime, and intellectual cop-out, though; it is highly he does it masterfully. This isn’t just nuanced storytelling. The author embeds supple storytelling, it’s balletic. Issues his positions in the narratives, and he suddenly — but naturally — arise and has the artistic sense and skill to let them hilarity turns serious, even deadly. Taken speak for themselves. in sum, the stories address very thorny Nowhere is this more apparent than in matters: Most broadly, the question of “Sister Hills,” the collection’s one utterly Jewish identity itself, in cultures increassomber text. Covering almost 40 years,

from 1973’s Yom Kippur War to the present, it traces the lives of two Israeli mothers whose families establish a settlement in Palestinian territory.

In their predicaments, Englander examines recent Israeli history and the tolls utter commitment can take on life and on character. The collisions of circumstance and choice in this story give these women genuine tragic stature.

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” is Englander’s third book. His first, another short story collection titled “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,” was highly acclaimed, winning the 2000 PEN Faulkner/Malamud Award and the American Arts and Sciences Kaufmann Award. The second, a novel titled “The Ministry of Foreign Cases,” was described by one reviewer as “sidesplitting and frighteningly macabre.” After reading “Anne Frank,” I’m eager to investigate these other works; you may be, too.

William Hug is a professor of English at Jacksonville State University.

‘Clawback’ makes finance interesting “Clawback” by Mike Cooper; Viking, 2012; 400 pages, $26.95

By Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel

Financial thrillers — once the least interesting category of mysteries — now flourish, thanks to vivid storytelling and an economic downturn that shows how high the stakes can be.

Mike Cooper’s fresh approach in “Clawback” mixes high-octane action with the details of banking and money management for a solid plot.

Silas Cade is a former black

ops soldier who now works as a consultant, forcing sleazy investment managers to give back millions to managers who are a little less sleazy.

Silas makes sure those former Masters of the Universe, as Tom Wolfe called them, are no longer on top of the world. Silas has his own definition of clawback — “a term of art, referring to the mandatory return of compensation paid on a deal that later goes bad. Sometimes the claw is literal.”

Silas has just finished retrieving $10 million for a hedge fund manager when his client is murdered. But this

may not be the first money manager killed. Wall Street mogul Quint Ganderson claims that several other managers — each with a history of losing money — have been murdered and he hires Silas to ferret out the assassin. Clara Dawson, a financial blogger looking for a big story, joins Silas’ investigation. Silas’ network of shadowy computer experts follow the money to try to track down who is killing the hedge-fund managers while Clara researches the backgrounds of the companies.

While Cooper doesn’t make the victims sympathetic, he

illustrates how the financial crisis and greed affect all aspects of society. Cooper, the pseudonym for a former investments executive, brings an insider’s view of the financial world.

Cooper shapes Silas as an enigmatic hero whose clients thrive on cutting-edge technology while Silas depends on “disposable technology” to keep off the grid. In his own way, Silas is a spy who lives in the shadows, without a home phone or even a computer that could be traced to him.

“Clawback’s” tense plot offers good payback.

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Review | technology

Make music on the go with these mobile tools

By Derrik J. Lang

Performers have been playing tunes on sidewalks for decades now. However, it’s rare to see anything other than a guitar in the hands of these street musicians.

Until now.

This week we’ll take a look at a musical keyboard that is fully compatible with Apple’s iOS device suite. You can plugin to an iPhone, hit Chris the road and give an Pittman impromptu concert wherever you want. iSpy Go ahead and recreate the famous scene from “Big” in front of Walmart.

MXL Tempo by MXL Microphones; $79.95 One quick look at the MXL Tempo microphone is all it takes to see the quality put into the product. The sleek, professional design gives an appearance of a high-end television talk show mic. Now you can look like Larry King while talking to your grandma online!

Audio quality is among the best I’ve ever heard in a USB microphone.

Everything sounds so crisp and detailed. There are bumps, of course, but that is to be expected from any audio/visual product these days.

The Tempo installs drivers when connected to a computer. Once ready, the user only needs to change the sound settings to use the device as the audio input.

The built-in headphone jack works wonders for recording in loud environments. You’ll be able to hear exactly what the mic picked up without the added background noise.

Plugging the attached cable into a USB port is all that is needed to power the Tempo. The lack of a dedicated power supply cord is fantastic and makes transporting the microphone much easier.

Online chatting is very popular these days and the microphone works perfectly in this arena. Those who use a webcam for Skype might prefer to switch the audio function to this device for the added quality. It’s also great for podcasts, though they have dramatically faded in popularity over the past couple of years.

Apple’s Camera Connection Kit, or any third-party variant, can be used to

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Mobile Keys by Line 6 allows users to play the keyboard through its Apple device. hook the Tempo to an iPad. The USB cord plugs perfectly into the tablet adapter just like it would on a Mac or PC. Several accessories are included in the package. The tripod stand is the basic fundamental way to use the microphone. Three adjustable legs give the user freedom to prop the device in the preferred style.

Also in the box is an adapter to hook the Tempo to a regular-sized microphone stand such as the ones you’d see at a concert or comedy club.

The MXL Tempo is a fantastic product for anyone dealing with audio production work. It’s my top recommendation for a USB microphone to date.

Mobile Keys by Line 6; $200 I’m not sure if Keyboard Cat could handle all 49 keys on Line 6’s Mobile Keys controller, but I’m sure he’d have fun all the same. The multi-functional keyboard controller lets one take their piano playing skills on the road.

The creator touts one big feature that most similar products do not have — iOS compatibility.

Mobile Keys can connect to an iPod, iPhone or iPad with the included adapter. Now you can get your Beethoven on in a crowded subway with full digital functions and form.

Once connected to an iOS device, a prompt appears to download a free application. I personally recommend ignoring this action and sticking to Apple’s GarageBand.

The app works perfectly with the keyboard. Mobile Keys takes the software much further than the onscreen touch keyboard ever will.

The beautiful design of the product is a real treat. Every aspect is well-made and the look is professional. Playing the keyboard feels natural.

The top is covered with all sorts of knobs and buttons, including controls for the octave, pan and volume. Pitch and Mod wheels also line the face of the device.

The back of the keyboard features outlets for sustain and expression pedals, a USB port and the iOS connector slot.

Line 6 claims that one can get up to nine hours of use one a single iPad battery charge. I didn’t play piano that long to see if they’re right, but I can happily say that Mobile Keys is friendly to the battery — a big plus for any third-party device. iOS support is the real highlight of Mobile Keys, but the product will work with PC and Mac OS X operating systems as well.

Digital music production is becoming extremely popular among those on the music scene. Mobile Keys provides a great way to play the piano or organ wherever one chooses. Those looking for a mobile keyboard should definitely give the product a chance. Just remember to download GarageBand as an accompaniment to the device. It should be required.

LOS ANGELES — Master Chief will awaken in November.

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that “Halo 4,” the seventh game in the popular sci-fi franchise starring armored hero Master Chief, is scheduled for worldwide release Nov. 6 on Xbox 360. Set four years after the events of “Halo 3,” the shoot-’em-up sequel will focus on Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and sidekick Cortana battling an ancient enemy.

“Halo 4” marks the return of the superpowered protagonist, who has been absent from the series since drifting into space in cryogenic slumber at the end of 2007’s “Halo 3.” (2009’s “Halo 3: ODST” and 2010’s “Halo: Reach” focused on other characters in the “Halo” universe.) It will also be the first “Halo” shooter installment not created by Bungie Studios.

After the developer broke off from Microsoft in 2007, Microsoft established 343 Industries to push the “Halo” universe into the future. For Master Chief’s latest intergalactic adventure, 343 Industries is giving him a minor makeover, tweaking both the supersoldier’s iconic suit of armor, as well as his usually silent, oh-so-stoic attitude.

“One of the things we wanted to do was put Chief up against new challenges and have him face obstacles unlike anything he’s faced before — some of those are external and some of those are internal,” said “Halo 4” creative director Josh Holmes. “Throughout the course of the story, we wanted him to undergo some kind of meaningful change as a character.”

Holmes said one of the most noticeable changes in Master Chief’s armor is the bodysuit that he wears underneath the outer shell. It’s slicker and more prominent than in previous “Halo” editions. The bodysuit regulates Master Chief’s physical functions, and Holmes joked that it’s the reason “he doesn’t need to go to the bathroom in the middle of battle.”

“There’s definitely some really clear changes in the shape and placement of the armor,” added executive producer Kiki Wolfkill. “For us, Chief is such an athletic and agile warrior.

It was necessary that his core armor design reflect that. As he is fighting his way through the environments in this game, he needs a freedom of movement that feels believable.”

Wolfkill noted the physical changes aren’t merely cosmetic. She said “Halo 4” art director Kenneth Scott redesigned the suit to prepare Master Chief for a new trilogy. Unveiled at last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, “Halo 4” is the first of three new “Halo” games planned

by Microsoft. 343 Industries has dubbed the new games the “reclaimer trilogy.”

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‘NASCAR on two wheels’

By Brett Buckner

A guide to Anniston’s annual Noble Street Festival and bike race

The Race Course: The Sunny King Criterium features a 1-mile course covering a large square downtown — from the intersection of Noble and 11th streets (the start/finish) travel east on 11th to Wilmer Avenue. Turn left (north) on Wilmer to 13th Street.

Turn left (west) on 13th, crossing Noble Street to Gurnee Avenue. Turn left (south) on Gurnee to 11th Street.

Turn left (east) on 11th and complete the loop at 11th and Noble. Racers will travel around this course for between 30 and 60 minutes, pending on the advanced stage of the race.

Organizers recommend spectators walk around the race course in the opposite direction of the race and watch the riders as they take corners at upward of 30 mph. While the largest crowd will be at the start/ finish, it can be entertaining to watch somewhere else on the course.

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he Noble Street Festival has become the “signature downtown event,” according to Spirit of Anniston director Betsy Bean, by offering something for every age and walk of life — both those who choose to lounge about or prefer moving at a quicker pace. It defies the concept of “family-friend-

ly” and puts the spotlight on all that is unique, entertaining, healthy and downright fun in Calhoun County.

Plus, it offers a spectacle unlike anything most are apt to see away from their big-screen TVs. And it’s all by design, explains Noble Street Festival director Mike Poe. “We try to offer multiple attractions so as to appeal to most anyone, and we try to keep it all very familyfriendly and high-quality,” he said.

“When we first started the event, we decided that a bait-and-switch strategy might work. We would bait the masses downtown for good food and great activities for kids and then we knew they’d discover the bike races and become hooked on this incredible spectator sport.

“Where else can you stand a few feet away and watch a pack of 120 cyclists pedal up to 40 mph, racing inches apart and taking 90-degree

turns at these speeds? It’s NASCAR on two wheels.”

Oh, and it’s free.

With each year, the Noble Street Festival has honed its presentation as organizers have aspired to make vendors, food and other activities more organized. Still, for those firsttime visitors, it can be overwhelming, so here is an all-encompassing guide to the 2012 Noble Street Festival:

Food

Music

Just for the kids

Other races

Restaurants are stationed between the music stage and start/finish of the races, along Noble Street between 9th and 11th streets. Many restaurants will begin serving early in day — as early as noon. All restaurants will serve from 4-8 p.m.

Tickets are available in strips of 13 for $15 and in strips of four for $5. Restaurants price each menu item using tickets. There will be multiple ticket booths at the festival, but to avoid potential ticket lines, tickets may be purchased in advance at NobleBank & Trust or at A.G. Edwards in Anniston.

Restaurants: Anthony’s Mexican Restaurant, Bonnie Ray’s Bake Shoppe, Chick-fil-A of Oxford, Classic on Noble, Cooter Brown’s Rib Shack, Garfrericks Cafe, J’s Wings & Fish, Jasmine Chinese Cuisine, Mata’s Greek Pizza, Mellow Mushroom, Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q, Sneaky Pete’s Hot Dogs.

The Noble Street Festival in recent years has become known almost as much for its live music as for the Criterium, and this year’s no exception. Under the big top of the Hot Blast Music Café, more than 200 people can sit and enjoy a variety of local acts.

11 a.m.: T.A.D. of Jazz Noon: Double Wide Soul 1 p.m.: Lindsey Hinkle 2 p.m.: Abby Parks 3 p.m.: Stephen Hartsfield 4 p.m.: The Gypsy Begonias 5 p.m.: 2 Pennies 6 p.m.: Strange Heirs

Many of the children’s activities are free, though some have a small fee. All Scion KidZone activities will be at the intersection of 10th and Noble streets — just look for the big tents.

The free KidZone Activities include: BMX TwoWheeled Bike Stunt Shows, Starwalk Sealand Play Zone, Ted Turgeon’s Tae kwon do, “Star Wars” cast roaming the festival from 2-6 p.m., an Anniston Army Depot Stryker, a Calhoun County Sheriff’s tank, KidzArt tent and much more.

Given all the available food, snacks and other goodies available throughout the day, it might be wise to get a head start on burning calories. Though the festival begins at 10 a.m., its unofficial kickoff comes at 7:30 a.m. with the Anniston Orthopedic YMCA 5K run. Later in the day, kids will have the chance to burn off any extra energy with the 5:15 p.m. Mellow Mushroom Mad Dash one lap running race, followed by the “Just For Fun” kids bike race at 5:35 p.m.

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‘NASCAR on two wheels’

By Brett Buckner

A guide to Anniston’s annual Noble Street Festival and bike race

The Race Course: The Sunny King Criterium features a 1-mile course covering a large square downtown — from the intersection of Noble and 11th streets (the start/finish) travel east on 11th to Wilmer Avenue. Turn left (north) on Wilmer to 13th Street.

Turn left (west) on 13th, crossing Noble Street to Gurnee Avenue. Turn left (south) on Gurnee to 11th Street.

Turn left (east) on 11th and complete the loop at 11th and Noble. Racers will travel around this course for between 30 and 60 minutes, pending on the advanced stage of the race.

Organizers recommend spectators walk around the race course in the opposite direction of the race and watch the riders as they take corners at upward of 30 mph. While the largest crowd will be at the start/ finish, it can be entertaining to watch somewhere else on the course.

Special to The Star

T

he Noble Street Festival has become the “signature downtown event,” according to Spirit of Anniston director Betsy Bean, by offering something for every age and walk of life — both those who choose to lounge about or prefer moving at a quicker pace. It defies the concept of “family-friend-

ly” and puts the spotlight on all that is unique, entertaining, healthy and downright fun in Calhoun County.

Plus, it offers a spectacle unlike anything most are apt to see away from their big-screen TVs. And it’s all by design, explains Noble Street Festival director Mike Poe. “We try to offer multiple attractions so as to appeal to most anyone, and we try to keep it all very familyfriendly and high-quality,” he said.

“When we first started the event, we decided that a bait-and-switch strategy might work. We would bait the masses downtown for good food and great activities for kids and then we knew they’d discover the bike races and become hooked on this incredible spectator sport.

“Where else can you stand a few feet away and watch a pack of 120 cyclists pedal up to 40 mph, racing inches apart and taking 90-degree

turns at these speeds? It’s NASCAR on two wheels.”

Oh, and it’s free.

With each year, the Noble Street Festival has honed its presentation as organizers have aspired to make vendors, food and other activities more organized. Still, for those firsttime visitors, it can be overwhelming, so here is an all-encompassing guide to the 2012 Noble Street Festival:

Food

Music

Just for the kids

Other races

Restaurants are stationed between the music stage and start/finish of the races, along Noble Street between 9th and 11th streets. Many restaurants will begin serving early in day — as early as noon. All restaurants will serve from 4-8 p.m.

Tickets are available in strips of 13 for $15 and in strips of four for $5. Restaurants price each menu item using tickets. There will be multiple ticket booths at the festival, but to avoid potential ticket lines, tickets may be purchased in advance at NobleBank & Trust or at A.G. Edwards in Anniston.

Restaurants: Anthony’s Mexican Restaurant, Bonnie Ray’s Bake Shoppe, Chick-fil-A of Oxford, Classic on Noble, Cooter Brown’s Rib Shack, Garfrericks Cafe, J’s Wings & Fish, Jasmine Chinese Cuisine, Mata’s Greek Pizza, Mellow Mushroom, Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q, Sneaky Pete’s Hot Dogs.

The Noble Street Festival in recent years has become known almost as much for its live music as for the Criterium, and this year’s no exception. Under the big top of the Hot Blast Music Café, more than 200 people can sit and enjoy a variety of local acts.

11 a.m.: T.A.D. of Jazz Noon: Double Wide Soul 1 p.m.: Lindsey Hinkle 2 p.m.: Abby Parks 3 p.m.: Stephen Hartsfield 4 p.m.: The Gypsy Begonias 5 p.m.: 2 Pennies 6 p.m.: Strange Heirs

Many of the children’s activities are free, though some have a small fee. All Scion KidZone activities will be at the intersection of 10th and Noble streets — just look for the big tents.

The free KidZone Activities include: BMX TwoWheeled Bike Stunt Shows, Starwalk Sealand Play Zone, Ted Turgeon’s Tae kwon do, “Star Wars” cast roaming the festival from 2-6 p.m., an Anniston Army Depot Stryker, a Calhoun County Sheriff’s tank, KidzArt tent and much more.

Given all the available food, snacks and other goodies available throughout the day, it might be wise to get a head start on burning calories. Though the festival begins at 10 a.m., its unofficial kickoff comes at 7:30 a.m. with the Anniston Orthopedic YMCA 5K run. Later in the day, kids will have the chance to burn off any extra energy with the 5:15 p.m. Mellow Mushroom Mad Dash one lap running race, followed by the “Just For Fun” kids bike race at 5:35 p.m.

Trent Penny/The Anniston Star file

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LOS ANGELES — Filmmakers are calling DogTV a new breed of television — an eight-hour block of ondemand cable TV programming designed to keep your dog relaxed, stimulated and entertained while you are at work.

To get the right footage, cameramen got on their knees and shot low and long. “I shot from the point of view of the dog,” said Gilad Neumann, chief executive officer of DogTV. In production, they had to mute colors, alter sound and add music specially written for dogs.

There will be no commercials, no ratings and no reruns, although some might argue that watching a slug crawl is hardly exciting new programming.

One million subscribers with two cable companies have access to DogTV in San Diego. It is doing so well that parent company PTV Media plans to offer it nationally in the next several months, Neumann said.

It will cost about $4.99 a month, Neumann said.

If you figure more than 46 million U.S. households have dogs (according to the American Pet Products Association) and 97 percent of U.S. homes have televisions, the future looks promising.

Bleu, a year-old French bulldog, has been watching for a month and snorts and grunts his approval, owner Mary Catania of San Diego said. He used to perk up when “Family Guy” came on, Catania said, but he seems more intrigued by DogTV. “I always feel guilty leaving him alone all day when I’m at work,” Catania said.

“He’s like my kid. I don’t have any children so I really treat him like my child. Anything that makes him happy

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Bleu, a French bulldog owned by Maria Catania, left, watches DogTV in her apartment in San Diego. One million subscribers with two cable companies have access to DogTV in San Diego, an 8-hour block of on-demand, daily cable TV programming designed to keep your dog relaxed, stimulated and exposed to new things while you are at work or school. makes me happy.”

For years, pet owners have been leaving a television or radio on when they go out so their pets have company, said Dr. Nick Dodman, director of the Animal Behavior Clinic in Department of Clinical Sciences at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

But Dodman said that according to research on the canine brain, with analog television, dogs could only see a flickering screen. New technologies like digital TV, high-definition cameras, and enhanced production have changed the way dogs perceive the images, while big screens allow them to see from anywhere in a room, Neumann said.

Do dogs really understand what they’re watching? Dodman said research is ongoing, but it appears that dogs not only recognize other dogs on TV, they may even respond differently to

their own breed.

They definitely recognize sounds, though, whether it’s barking or sirens, and audio on DogTV has been tailored accordingly. Because high frequency sounds can be very irritating to dogs, they’ve been removed. And music is written and tailored for their hearing, though it sounds like elevator music to humans.

What you won’t find on DogTV are the sounds that blare on regular TV: no gunshots, no explosions, no heavy metal music, Neumann said.

Dogs can see blue and yellow, but not red or green, Neumann said, so colors are altered for DogTV too.

Based on dog sleeping pattern studies, programmers alternate footage and soundtracks designed for stimulation, relaxation and exposure throughout the eight hours.

Exposure is designed to acquaint dogs with things

they will see each day.

“There are studies that show when young puppies are exposed to video images of other dogs, it acts as a form of socialization,” Dodman said. Sights and sounds during this part of the programming expose the animals to things like traffic, babies, other pets and doorbells.

Relaxation segments feature sleeping dogs and nature scenes — like the slugs — accompanied by dog lullabies.

Stimulation includes dogs running, playing and surfing, animation and a lot of panting. The idea behind this part of DogTV is to get a dog moving, even if it is home alone.

Shows are “refreshed” daily for variety.

There has been a lot of feedback from viewers saying their cats like the show as well as their dogs, Neumann said. CatTV may be added later, but DogTV is strictly for the dogs, he said.

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Pop culture Q&A

‘Highway Patrol’ available on DVD

By Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal

Q: I’d like to find DVDs of an old show I haven’t seen in years called “Highway Patrol” starring Broderick Crawford. Is it available?

A: “Highway Patrol” “was one of the most popular syndicated programs in television history,” says “The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows.”

It originally aired from 1955 to 1959, with repeats for years afterward.

Crawford — who had won the Academy Award for best actor for the 1949 movie “All the King’s Men” — played Dan Mathews, chief of the patrol in an unspecified state. Crawford’s gruff delivery inspired a lot of kids in the ’50s to bark “10-4.”

While there have been various unauthorized video releases over the years, MGM has released the 39-episode first season in a DVD set that is available through various retailers, including online at Amazon.com and Walmart.com.

Q: Whatever happened to “Merlin,” airing on Syfy on Friday nights? There were just six or seven episodes, and then pooof! What’s the story?

A: The fourth season of the series consisted of 13 episodes, the last of which aired in late March. A fifth season is reportedly in the works, but I have not yet seen an air date.

Q: Back in the ’70s (?), there was a made-for-TV movie titled “Evening in Byzantium.” As I remember, it had some big-name stars. I remember at the time it was really intriguing. I have tried to purchase it on every website I know of that sells old movies and TV programs, but have yet to find it. Am I off-base with the title, or is it just locked in a vault and not available?

A: “Evening in Byzantium” originally aired in 1978 as part of Operation Prime Time, an alternative to broadcast network programming that sold productions to individual stations. Other OPT efforts included “Testimony of Two Men,” “The Immigrants” and programs based on John Jakes’ Kent family novels, including “The Bastard” and “The Rebels.”

The two-part, four-hour “Evening” — about a movie producer at

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Broderick Crawford, astride a scooter, which he uses to take him around the studio lot in Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 1942. Crawford’s hit TV show ‘Highway Patrol’ is available on DVD. ing Point,” “That’s Dancing” and “Dancers.” Also, anything with Cyd Charisse. All I have is “Silk Stockings” — her very best in my book.

A: You’re quite a dance fan.

“The Turning Point,” with Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, was released on DVD in 2005 but is now hard to find (and expensive). “Dancers” is also pricey, unless you want to watch it on streaming video. “That’s Dancing” is more readily available, and I have seen it for sale on Amazon. com.

Charisse was, of course, a wellthe Cannes Film Festival — starred regarded dancer and film star; she Glenn Ford, Eddie Albert, and othdied in 2008. The Warner Archive ers, and was based on a novel by DVD collection includes several of Irwin Shaw. (The author was a hot TV her movies, among them “Party Girl,” ticket at the time thanks to the suc“Meet Me in Las Vegas” and “The cess of his “Rich Man, Poor Man,” as a Unfinished Dance.” A quick look miniseries for ABC; his novel “Top of also came up with “Brigadoon,” “It’s the Hill” would also become an OPT Always Fair Weather,” “The Band presentation.) Unfortunately, I do Wagon,” “The Wild North” and, of not know of an authorized release of course, “Singin’ in the Rain.” If your “Evening” on video. local retailer cannot get them, try Q: I am looking for DVDs of online vendors; I saw all the titles Mikhail Baryshnikov in “The Turn- mentioned here on Amazon.com.

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Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive FOOD Best Thing Ate ●MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks. From Chase Field in Phoenix. (N) (Live) FOXSS ●College Baseball LSU at Kentucky. (N) (Live) ●The Ultimate Fighter Live (N) ’ (Live) ●UFC Primetime Two and a Half Men ’ ››› “Taken” (2008) Liam Neeson. A former spy uses his old skills to save his kidnapped daughter. ››› Taken (2008) FX ›› “Meet Dave” (2008) Eddie Murphy. Tiny aliens arrive on Earth in a manlike spaceship. Å ›› “Meet Dave” (2008) Eddie Murphy. Tiny aliens arrive on Earth in a manlike spaceship. Å FXM FXM Presents Å The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid The $25,000 Pyramid GSN The $25,000 Pyramid Little House on the Little House on the Prairie “The Family Tree” Ingalls Little House on the Prairie “The Third Miracle” Stage- Frasier Niles needs a date Frasier Diane Chambers Frasier Niles tries to “fix” Frasier Frasier promotes HALL Prairie “Back to School” go to court to adopt Albert. Å coach accident traps Adam. Å for a dance. Å visits Seattle. ’ Å Maris’ tickets. Å Leap-Day risks. ’ Å ●REAL Sports With Bryant Gumbel ’ Å The Ricky Gervais Show Life’s Too Short Å Real Time With Bill Maher (N) ’ (Live) Å Real Time With Bill Maher ’ Å HBO Something-Lrd. I Brake for Yard Sales Flea markets and yard sales. Flea Market Flip (N) House Hunters Å House Hunters (N) Å Hunters Int’l Hunters Int’l Hunters Int’l H&G Hunters Int’l Modern Marvels “More American Pickers “The Return of Hobo Jack” The Sold! 1969 Dodge Charg- Sold! The gang holds a Sold! Rick and Mike use a Sold! TNT plunger; American Restoration American Restoration HIST Snackfood Tech” Å guys go back to Hobo Jack’s. Å er; dog sled. Å guns-only auction. Å hovercraft. Å rawhide toilet seats. Å “King of Signs” Å “Hot & Salty” Å To Be Announced America’s Most Wanted (N) Å America’s Most Wanted “Couples on the Run” America’s Most Wanted Å LIFE To Be Announced ››› “The Town” (2010, Crime Drama) Ben Affleck. A woman doesn’t realize that her new beau is a bank robber. ’ ‘R’ Å Girl’s Guide to Depravity Sex Games Cancun ’ MAX › “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son” (2011) ››› “Good Morning, Vietnam” (1987) ’ Å MILIT Wings Over Vietnam ’ ››› “Good Morning, Vietnam” (1987, Comedy) Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker. Premiere. Airman Adrian Cronauer, DJ in 1965 Saigon. ’ Å Fantasy Factory The Pauly D Project ’ Savage U ’ Punk’d ’ Å › “How High” (2001) Method Man, Redman. Pot-smoking pals become unlikely students at Harvard. ’ MTV Fantasy Factory Locked Up Abroad: Popped “Cuzco” Locked Up Abroad: Popped (N) Locked Up Abroad: Popped (N) Locked Up Abroad: Popped (N) NGEO Border Wars George Lopez ’ Å That ’70s Show ’ Å That ’70s Show ’ Å Friends ’ Å Friends ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants George Lopez ’ Å What Happened Before the Big Bang? ’ Å The Hawking Paradox Black hole theory. ’ Å Cheat Sheet How did the universe begin. (N) Å What Happened Before the Big Bang? ’ Å SCIENCE Center of the Earth ›› “Scream 4” (2011) Neve Campbell. The Ghostface Killer returns to claim new victims. ‘R’ Å Boxing Jermain Taylor vs. Caleb Truax. (N) (Live) SHOW ›› “Square Grouper” (2011, Documentary) Premiere. ‘R’ Days of our Lives Sami and E.J. talk. ’ Å General Hospital Sam and Jason might recover. ’ The Young and the Restless ’ Å Days of our Lives Sami and E.J. talk. ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●Auto Racing Traxxas TORC Off-Road Series. From Charlotte, N.C. (N) (Live) Dumbest Stuff NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: STP 400, Final Practice.

SPEED Dumbest Stuff ›› “Doom” (2005) The Rock, Karl Urban. Soldiers battle mutants at a research facility on Mars. ’ ›› “Alien vs. Predator” (2004) Sanaa Lathan. ’ SPIKE ›› “Alien vs. Predator” (2004) Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova. ’ ●Hawks Live! Postgame 3 Wide Life (N) ●Raceline (N) In My Own Words Future Phenoms SPSO ●NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Atlanta Hawks. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (N Subject to Blackout) Dream Machines “50 Cents Jet Car Takes Off” Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files SYFY The Matrix Revolutions ●WWE Friday Night SmackDown! Big Show and Sheamus team up in a tag team main event. (N) ’ Å Behind the Scenes Å The Hal Lindsey Report The Harvest Å Manna-Fest/Perry Stone ››› “Amazing Grace” (2006) Ioan Gruffudd. William Wilburforce fights to abolish slavery in England.

TBN The Potter’s Touch Å House of Payne House of Payne House of Payne House of Payne ›› “The Wedding Date” (2005) Debra Messing. A woman brings a male escort to her sister’s wedding.

TBS Seinfeld “The Nap” ’ ›› “The Dangerous ›› “Ski Party” (1965, Musical Comedy) Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley. Two guys pose as ›› “Winter a Go-Go” (1965, Musical Comedy) James Stacy, William Wellman Jr., Beverly Adams. A teenager TCM Days of Kiowa Jones” girls at a ski lodge to learn a Romeo’s secret. and his pals turn a ski resort into a hot spot.

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Auto Auto Show ››› “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1952) Gaither Homecoming The Cross Natural Ad- Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Sheer Cov- Paid Pro- Ball Boys Ball Boys ●ESPN Sports Saturday (N) Paid Pro- ABC World News at vantage gram gram er gram (N) Å ’Å gram News 6PM Crimson Paid Pro- PGA Tour Golf Champions: Liberty Mutual Legends ●PGA Tour Golf Valero Texas Open, Third Round. From San Antonio. (N) The Insider CBS Evening CBS 42 Tide gram of Golf, Second Round. (N) (Live) Å (Live) Å (N) ’ News News at 6 Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. › “Collateral Damage” (2002) Arnold Schwarzenegger. ’ ››› “The Visitor” (2007, Drama) Richard Jenkins. ’ Psych “High Noon-ish” Psych ’ L WPXH Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Miracles Hollywood Sports Heartland Å (DVS) Browns Browns ›› “View From the Top” (2003, Comedy) Payne Payne Ring ¥ WABM Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. MY68 Auto Suzuki CABLE ENTERTAINMENT News High Q Local Programming News Local Prog Ent ^ TV-2 Local Programming Fix-Yard Flip This House Å Flip This House Å Flip This House Å Driving Driving Parking Parking Parking Parking Parking Parking Parking Parking Storage A&E Fix-Yard ›› “The Return of ›››› “There Will Be Blood” (2007, Drama) Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano. A Texas oil ›› “King Arthur” (2004) Clive Owen, Keira Knightley. Arthur ›››› “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975, Drama) AMC Frank James” (1940) prospector becomes morally bankrupt as his fortune grows. Å and his knights embark on a rescue mission. Å Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif. Å Alaska Wildlife Country Justice Å North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law ’ Tanked ANPL Who-Dogs Animals Planet Earth “Deserts” Planet Earth Å Planet Earth Å Planet Earth “Jungles” Planet Earth Å Planet Earth “Seasonal Forest” Planet Earth Å Planet Earth Å Earth BBC Earth Chris Chris Chris My Wife My Wife My Wife My Wife Parkers Parkers Parkers Parkers ›› “Like Mike” (2002) Lil’ Bow Wow. Å ›› “All About the Benjamins” BET Chris Paranormal Trauma Mediums: We See Dead People Å Para-State Para-State Paranormal State Å Para-State Para-State Celebrity Ghost Stories Celebrity Ghost Stories My Ghost Story Å Story BIO Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/OC Housewives/Atl. Housewives/Atl. Atlanta BRAVO Interior Therapy CMT Insdr Top 20 Countdown ’ Å Punk’d ’ J. Garth Melissa The Singing Bee Å The Singing Bee Å Punk’d ’ ›› “You’ve Got Mail” (1998) ’ CMTV CMT Music ’ 30 Rock 30 Rock Sunny Sunny Sunny Sunny South Park ›› “Encino Man” (1992) Sean Astin. Å ›› “Dumb & Dumber” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey. Å Natl Van COMEDY ›› “Encino Man” Triggers: Change American Chopper ’ Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction American Guns Å American Guns Å American Guns Å Am. Guns DISC American Chopper “Monsters, Phineas Jessie ’ A.N.T. Farm WizardsWizardsGood Luck Good Luck Shake It Shake It Jessie ’ Jessie ’ Jessie ’ Jessie ’ Good Luck Jessie ’ Austin & Shake It A.N.T. Farm DISN Inc.” ‘G’ and Ferb Å Å Place Place Charlie Charlie Up! Å Up! Å Å Å Å Å Charlie ’ Å Ally Å Up! Å Å E! News (N) Fashion Police Fashion Star Khloe Khloe Khloe Khloe Khloe Khloe Khloe Khloe The Voice Vocalists compete; Wiz Khalifa. Å The Voice E! ●ESPN Goal Line (N) (Live) First Take QB Camp QB Camp Sport Sci. ●Gruden’s QB Camp NBA NBA Basketball: Nuggets at Suns ESPN ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å ●NFL Live (N) Å ●SportsCenter (N) Å NHRA Drag Racing Timber Timber Strong Strong Strong Strong Strong Strong Strong Strong QB Camp ESPN2 SportsNation Å ››› “The Mask” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey. ›› “The Flintstones” (1994) John Goodman. ››› “Meet the Parents” (2000, Comedy) Robert De Niro.

Mall Cop FAM Haunted ›› “Sky High” (2005) Michael Angarano.

Trisha’s Contessa Giada Chopped Cupcake Wars Chopped All-Stars Sweet Genius Diners Diners Iron Chef America Hunger Hits Home Diners FOOD Paula Baseball Women’s College Lacrosse Women’s College Lacrosse Hockey History Game 365 Baseball Sports FOXSS ShipShape Outdoors NASCAR Game 365 Boys in How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men ››› “Enemy of the State” (1998) Will Smith, Gene Hackman. › “Armageddon” (1998) Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton.

FX ››› “Home Alone” (1990) Macaulay Culkin. › “Home Alone 3” (1997) Alex D. Linz. Å ›› “Night at the Museum” (2006) Ben Stiller.

FXM Pres. ›› “Big Momma’s House” (2000) Å FXM “Baby’s Day Out” Å Deal or No Deal Å Deal or No Deal Å Newlywed Newlywed Newlywed Newlywed Family Fd Family Fd Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Fam. Feud GSN Whammy! Chain Rctn Newlywed Newlywed Million Dollar “Undercover Bridesmaid” (2012, Romance-Come- “The Good Witch” (2008, Drama) Catherine Bell, ››› “The Good Witch’s Garden” (2009, Drama) “The Good Witch’s Gift” (2010, Drama) Catherine “The Good Witch’s Family” (2011) HALL dy) Brooke Burns, Gregory Harrison. Å Chris Potter. Å Catherine Bell, Chris Potter. Å Bell, Chris Potter, Laura Bertram. Å Catherine Bell, Noah Cappe. Å Conchords ›› “Sucker Punch” (2011) Emily Browning. ›› “The Dilemma” (2011) Vince Vaughn. Å ›› “Fast Five” (2011, Action) Vin Diesel. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å ›› “The Saint” (1997) Val Kilmer.

HBO Fast Five 24/7 Showhs Buck High Low Landscape Landscape Block Block Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters H&G YardCrash YardCrash YardCrash Hse Crash Hse Crash BathCrash Room Cr. Contractor Homes Nostradamus Effect Decoding the Past Å The Next Nostradamus Using computers to predict Nostradamus Effect Å Nostradamus Effect Å Nostradamus Effect Nostradamus: 2012 Predictions of cataclysm. Å Swamp HIST Pyramid prophecies. events. Å “Son of Nostradamus” People Chris The Client List Å The Client List Å › “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” (2008) Å “The Wives He Forgot” (2006) Molly Ringwald.

“The Boy She Met Online” (2010) LIFE Paid Prog. WEN Hair Chris “Endure” (2010) Devon Sawa. ‘R’ ›› “Lottery Ticket” (2010) Å ››› “The Blues Brothers” (1980) John Belushi. ‘R’ Å › “Jonah Hex” (2010) MAX “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” (2010) ›› “Happy Gilmore” (1996) Å Triggers: Change Triggers: Change Triggers: Change Triggers: Change Triggers: Change Unsolved History Å ››› “The Alamo” (1960) John Wayne. ’ MILIT The Color of War Å Sweet 16 Blingest Sweet 16 Blingest America’s Best Dance America’s Best Dance Hip-Hop Punk’d ’ Punk’d ’ Punk’d ’ Punk’d ’ Pauly D Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy MTV Sweet 16 Blingest Wicked Tuna Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked up: Popped Locked up: Popped Locked up: Popped Abroad NGEO Wicked Tuna T.U.F.F. Power Sponge.

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19th-century British sailor lives nobly among natives. Å Peck, Robert Mitchum. Å Moving Up ’ Å Moving Up ’ Å Disappeared ’ Å Dateline: Real Life Dateline: Real Life Dateline: Real Life Dateline: Real Life Dateline: Real Life Evidence TLC Moving Up ’ Å Law & Or- Rizzoli & Isles “Seven- The Closer Brenda is the Law & Order “Open Sea- ›› “The Heartbreak Kid” (2007) Ben Stiller. A ›› “Yes Man” (2008, Comedy) Jim Carrey. Premiere. A man ›› “Old School” (2003, Comedy) TNT der ’ teen Ain’t So Sweet” target of a civil suit. son” Å (DVS) man realizes he may have married too hastily. tries to change his life by saying yes to everything. Å Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell. Å Justice MAD Level Up Looney Looney ›› “Aloha, Scooby-Doo” (2005) Gumball Gumball Johnny T Johnny T Johnny T Regular Regular Adventure Adventure Wallace TOON Lantern Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ’ Å Good Time Good Time Jeffersons Jeffersons ››› “A League of Their Own” (1992) Tom Hanks, Geena Davis. Å Home Imp. TVLND The Nanny Divorced Extreme Makeover NCIS “Kill Ari” Å NCIS “Kill Ari” Å NCIS “Mind Games” NCIS “Hiatus” Å NCIS “Hiatus” Å NCIS “Once a Hero” NCIS “Skeletons” ’ NCIS “Trojan Horse” NCIS Å USA NCIS “Twilight” Å The Women of SNL ’ Å Stevie TV Couples Therapy ’ Tough Love Mob Wives ’ Å La La Basketball Wives ’ Yo! MTV Raps Moments VH1 Top 20 Count.

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Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar The Soup Chelsea Lately E! ●NBA Basketball Dallas Mavericks at Chicago Bulls. From the United Center in Chicago. (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Orlando Magic at Utah Jazz. (N) (Live) ESPN NBA Basketball ●Sport Science (N) ●ESPN First Take Å ●Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) Å ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å Gruden’s QB Camp Å ESPN2 ●Gruden’s QB Camp ›› “Bedtime Stories” (2008) Adam Sandler, Keri Russell. A handyman’s tall tales begin to come true. ››› “Love Actually” (2003) Hugh Grant.

FAM ›› “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009, Comedy) Kevin James, Jayma Mays.

Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Iron Chef America “Garces vs. Cowan” FOOD Diners, Drive ●MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks. From Chase Field in Phoenix. (N) (Live) World Poker Tour: Season 10 FOXSS ●Sports Unlimited ●UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans - Prelims From Atlanta, Ga. (N) (Live) › Armageddon (1998) ›› “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004, Action) Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm.

FX ›› “Big Momma’s House” (2000, Comedy) Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti. Å Big Momma’s House 2 FXM › “Big Momma’s House 2” (2006, Comedy) Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter. Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud Å Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game GSN Family Feud ’ Å “The Good Witch’s Fami- “Undercover Bridesmaid” (2012, Romance-Comedy) Brooke Burns, Gregory Harrison. A guard falls for a “The Wish List” (2010, Romance) Jennifer Esposito, David Sutcliffe. A woman falls for a guy who meets none HALL ly” (2011) Catherine Bell. groomsman while posing as a bridesmaid. Å of her standards. Å ●24/7 Mayweather/Cotto Floyd Mayweather Game of Thrones Tyrion plots to gain alliances. ’ HBO ›› The Saint (1997) ’ ›› “Water for Elephants” (2011, Drama) Reese Witherspoon. Premiere. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Candice Tells All (N) Dear Genevieve (N) Color Splash Å Interiors Inc Å House Hunters Å Hunters Int’l House Hunters Å Hunters Int’l H&G Hunters Int’l Swamp People “TreeSwamp People “Something Wicked This Way Comes” Swamp People “Rising Waters” Troy faces the treach- Swamp People “Rebound” Joe and Tommy can’t return Swamp People “Gates of Hell” Traffic spoils Troy’s HIST breaker 2” Å A huge storm heads to the swamp. Å erous conditions. Å to the hunt. Å hunting grounds. Å “A Trusted Man” (2011) Charisma Carpenter, Dylan Neal. A mysterious stalker torments a woman. Å LIFE The Boy She Met Online “The Wife He Met Online” (2012, Suspense) Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven. Premiere. Å ››› “The Tree of Life” (2011, Drama) Brad Pitt, Sean Penn. Premiere. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å MAX › Jonah Hex (2010) ’ ›››› “Jaws” (1975) Roy Scheider. A man-eating shark terrorizes a New England resort town. ‘PG’ ››› “A Bridge Too Far” (1977) Dirk Bogarde.

MILIT ››› The Alamo (1960) ››› “A Bridge Too Far” (1977, War) Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine. An account of a disastrous 1944 Allied military operation. ’ Å Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory MTV Fantasy Factory Shark Men Three sharks are caught but get away.

Wicked Tuna Peak season for blue fin tuna begins.

Wicked Tuna “Payback’s a Fish” Wicked Tuna “Weekend Warriors” NGEO Locked up: Popped iCarly ’ Å How to Rock (N) Å Big Time Tour (N) Å Victorious ’ Å That ’70s Show ’ Å That ’70s Show ’ Å Friends ’ Å Friends ’ Å NICK iCarly “iToe Fat Cakes” Dark Matters: Twisted but True ’ Å Dark Matters: Twisted but True ’ Å Dark Matters: Twisted but True ’ Å Dark Matters: Twisted but True ’ Å SCIENCE Twisted but True ●Boxing Abner Mares vs. Eric Morel. Mares battles Morel for the vacant WBC super bantamweight title. From El Paso, Texas. (N) The Franchise SHOW ›› “Red” (2010, Action) Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●AMA Supercross Racing Seattle. From Qwest Field, Seattle, Wash. (N) (Live) AMA Pro Racing Atlanta. (N Same-day Tape) AMA Pro Racing Atlanta. (N Same-day Tape) SPEED ●Formula 1 Debrief Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ SPIKE Auction Hunters ’ ●College Softball Houston at Tulsa. (Taped) ●At Home ●College Baseball Memphis at Southern Mississippi.

SPSO Hawks Chrlder “Alien Tornado” (2012) Jeff Fahey. Premiere. Aliens utilize tornadoes as part of a plan to invade Earth. ›› “Star Trek: Insurrection” (1998) Å SYFY ›› “Outlander” (2008, Action) James Caviezel, Ron Perlman. Å In Touch With Dr. Charles Stanley Å Hour of Power Å Billy Graham Classic Crusades Not a Fan Travel the Road Å TBN Precious Memories The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ ›› “Last Holiday” (2006, Comedy) Queen Latifah. A terminally ill woman lives it up on vacation.

TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ››› “Cape Fear” (1962) ›››› “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977, Science Fiction) Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr. UFO sighters finally ››› “Rollerball” (1975, Science Fiction) James Caan, John Houseman, Maud TCM Gregory Peck. meet the aliens that obsessed them. Å Adams. The star player in a brutal sport is asked to retire. Å 48 Hours: Hard Evidence “Fatal Choice” (N) Å 48 Hours: Hard Evidence Man hides a sinister truth. 48 Hours: Hard Evidence “House of Secrets” Å TLC 48 Hours: Hard Evidence 48 Hours: Hard Evidence “House of Secrets” (N) ›› “Old School” (2003) ››› “The Hangover” (2009, Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis. Three pals must find a ›› “Old School” (2003, Comedy) Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn. Three men relive their wild past by TNT Luke Wilson. Å missing groom after a wild bash. Å starting a fraternity. Å Wallace & Gromit-Loaf World of Gumball King of the Hill ’ Å Childrens Hospital Loiter Squad Family Guy ’ Å The Boondocks Aqua Teen Hunger TOON Wallace & Gromit Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond The King of Queens ’ TVLND Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Everybody-Raymond NCIS “Judgment Day” The team hunts a killer.

NCIS “Judgment Day” The team hunts for a killer.

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The Unit ¥ WABM Church CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming News Labor Trumpet Awards Local Programming Chan. 2 Action News Local Prog ^ TV-2 Chan. 2 Action News Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Parking Parking Parking Parking Parking Parking Storage Storage Storage A&E The Sopranos ’ Å Mad Men Lane strikes up ›› “Meet Joe Black” (1998, Fantasy) Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani. The Grim Reaper as- ›› “Legends of the Fall” (1994, Drama) Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins. The ›› “Sahara” (2005) Matthew McAMC a friendship. Å sumes the form of a recently deceased man. Å forces of love and war slowly destroy a Montana family. Å Conaughey. Premiere. Å Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Blue Planet: Seas/Life Tanked ’ ANPL Wild Kingdom ’ Å Planet Earth “Freshwater” Å Planet Earth “Caves” Planet Earth “Deserts” Planet Earth Å Planet Earth Å Planet Earth “Jungles” Planet Earth “Shallow Seas” Å Earth BBC Planet Earth Å Parkers “Cheaper to Keep Her” (2011) Vivica A. Fox. Premiere. Å ›› “Roll Bounce” (2005) Bow Wow, Chi McBride. Å “Hurricane Season” (2009, Drama) Forest Whitaker. Å BET Lift Voice BET News Parkers House House House House House House House House Biography Å Biography Å Notorious Å Notorious Å Women Behind Bars Women BIO Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Jersey BRAVO Million Dollar Listing Kathy CMT Insdr Top 20 Countdown ’ Å ›› “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994) ’ Them Idiots Whirled Tour ’ Å “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” CMTV CMT Music ’ ››› “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984) Å Futurama Futurama Futurama ›› “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” ›› “Year One” (2009) Å COMEDY ›› “Year One” (2009) Jack Black. Å MythBusters ’ Å Resurrection Tomb Frozen Planet ’ Å Frozen Planet (N) Å Frozen Planet (N) Å Frozen Planet ’ Å Frozen Planet (N) Å Frozen Planet “Winter” Frozen P. DISC MythBusters ’ Å Good Luck Shake It A.N.T. Farm Austin & WizardsWizardsGood Luck Good Luck Shake it Shake It Jessie ’ Austin & Phineas Phineas Good Luck A.N.T. Farm Jessie ’ Shake It Austin & DISN Charlie ’ Up! Å Å Ally Å Place Place Charlie ’ Charlie ’ Up! Å Up! Å Å Ally Å and Ferb and Ferb Charlie ’ Å Å Up! Å Ally Å Ice-Coco The Soup E! News (N) Khloe Khloe The Voice Vocalists compete; Wiz Khalifa. Å The Voice ’ Å ›› “Along Came Polly” (2004) Ben Stiller.

Ice-Coco Ice-Coco Ice-Coco E! ●College Softball Missouri at Oklahoma. (N) ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Atlanta Hawks. (N) Baseball ESPN ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å The Sports First Take QB Camp ●Baseball Tonight (N) Football All-Star Challenge Flag F’tball ●College Baseball Georgia at Florida. (N) (Live) MLS Soccer: Red Bulls at United ESPN2 Outside ››› “The Mask” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey. ›› “The Flintstones” (1994) John Goodman. ›› “The Karate Kid” (1984) Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita. ›› “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009) FAM ›› “Sky High” Guy’s, Bite Sand. King Be.- Made Paula Pioneer Restaurant: Impossible Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Best Thing Best Thing Diners Diners Chopped FOOD Dinners ●College Softball Arkansas at Auburn. (N) (Live) Horse.

Autogeek Motorhead Henderson Baseball Und. Pre-Game MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks. (N) (Live) Postgame FOXSS Boys in Doomsday ›› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008) Keanu Reeves. › “Armageddon” (1998) Bruce Willis. A hero tries to save Earth from an asteroid. ›› “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) Dennis Quaid. ›› 2012 FX ››› “The Brothers McMullen” (1995) Å ›› “A Cool, Dry Place” (1998) Vince Vaughn. ›› “Playing by Heart” (1998, Drama) Å ››› “Marley & Me” (2008) Owen Wilson.

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Wrong 3 SYFY Eureka ’ Stargate Atlantis Å Win Walk Miracle Redempt. Love In Touch PowerPnt. Is Written B. Conley From Heart King Is J. Franklin John Hagee Today Prince Changing T.D. Jakes J. Meyer Youssef TBN Rhema ›› “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself” (2009) MLB Baseball Texas Rangers at Detroit Tigers. (N) (Live) Å › “My Baby’s Daddy” (2004) Å ›› “Last Holiday” (2006) Queen Latifah. Å TBS Stomp ››› “Pigskin Parade” (1936, Musical Comedy) ›››› “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (1936, Comedy) ›› “Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows” (1968) ›››› “In the Heat of the Night” (1967, Crime ››› “Summertime” (1955, RoTCM Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley. Å Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur. Å Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens. Å Drama) Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger. Å mance) Katharine Hepburn. Å Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding TLC Say Yes Law & Order Slain psy- Law & Order “TombLaw & Order Baseball Law & Order “Baby, It’s Law & Order “Shrunk” Law & Order “Teenage › “10,000 B.C.” (2008, Adventure) Steven Strait, ›› “Resident Evil: Extinction” TNT chiatrist is found. ’ stone” ’ Å (DVS) fan is stabbed to death. You” Å (DVS) Songwriter suspected.

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Breakout Kings A former Navy SEAL turns fugitive.

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I Survived “Jenn; Neil and Blake; Tiffany” (N) Å I Survived...Beyond & Back (N) Å I Survived...Beyond & Back “Teresa; Ray; Linda” BIO The Real Housewives of Atlanta “Reunion Part 2” The Real Housewives of Atlanta “Reunion Part 3” The Real Housewives of New Jersey What Happens Housewives/NJ BRAVO Housewives/NJ ›› “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young. ’ Å Them Idiots CMTV Blue Collar Comedy Tour Ron White’s Celebrity Salute to the Troops ’ Å ›› “Without a Paddle” (2004) Seth Green. Three friends embark on a calamitous canoe trip. Å South Park Å Tosh.0 Å “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” COMEDY ›› Year One (2009) Frozen Planet “On Thin Ice” (N) ’ Å MythBusters The team tests gender-based cliches.

Unchained Reaction “Movie Mayhem” (N) ’ Å Frozen Planet “On Thin Ice” ’ Å DISC Frozen Planet “Spring” Austin & Ally Austin gets Austin & Ally Austin and ›› “Beethoven” (1992, Comedy) Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones. An Austin & Ally Austin and Jessie Jessie tries to A.N.T. Farm Olive’s pet ro- Shake It Up! A phantom DISN ready for a contest. Å Ally wait in line. (N) Å evil veterinarian kidnaps a lovable Saint Bernard. ’ ‘PG’ Å Ally wait in line. ’ Å unglue hands. ’ Å bot no longer works. makes a threat. ’ Å Ice Loves Coco Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar (N) Ice Loves Coco (N) Chelsea Lately The Soup E! ●MLB Baseball New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox. From Fenway Park in Boston. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å ESPN ●Baseball Tonight (N) ●ESPN First Take Å ●Gruden’s QB Camp ●Sport Science ●Who’s Number 1? Å Tim Tebow - Everything in Between Gruden’s QB Camp Å ESPN2 MLS Soccer ›› “Bedtime Stories” (2008) Adam Sandler, Keri Russell. A handyman’s tall tales begin to come true. ›› “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009, Comedy) Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O’Donnell.

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River Monsters “Pack of Teeth” ’ Å ANPL Swamp Wars ’ Å Top Gear The Supercar Shootout in Italy. (N) Å Richard Hammond’s Crash Course (N) Å Top Gear The Supercar Shootout in Italy. Å BBC Top Gear A trade mission to India. Å The Game ’ Å The Game ’ Å The Game ’ Å The Game ’ Å BET ›› “Notorious” (2009, Biography) Angela Bassett, Derek Luke. Based on the life of slain rapper Christopher Wallace. Å Notorious Å Killer Kids “Family Killers” Å Killer Kids “Group Killers” Group killings. Å Casey Anthony: How Did We Get Here? Å Killer Kids “Group Killers” Group killings. Å BIO The Real Housewives of Atlanta “Reunion Part 3” The Real Housewives of New Jersey Bethenny Ever After “Paradise Found” (N) What Happens Bethenny Ever After BRAVO Housewives/Atl. The Singing Bee ’ Å The Singing Bee ’ Å The Singing Bee Rascal Flats and Rodney Atkins.

CMTV Kitchen Nightmares ’ Jennie Garth: Country Melissa & Tye ’ Å Futurama ’ Å South Park Å It’s Always Sunny It’s Always Sunny It’s Always Sunny It’s Always Sunny Daily Show/Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY 30 Rock ’ Å American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior ’ Å American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior (N) ’ Å World’s Scariest Plane Landings (N) ’ Å American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior ’ Å DISC American Chopper Austin & Ally Austin and Shake It Up! A phantom ›› “Princess Protection Program” (2009, Comedy) Selena Gomez, Demi Lova- Jessie Jessie defends Mr. Austin & Ally “Deejays & Wizards of Waverly Place Good Luck Charlie A DISN Ally wait in line. ’ Å makes a threat. ’ Å to. A princess stays with a covert agent and his daughter. ’ Å Kipling. ’ Å Demos” ’ Å ’Å mean music video. Å E! News (N) Fashion Police Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Death in Paradise (N) Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) Å ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å ESPN ●MLB Baseball New York Yankees at Texas Rangers. From Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. (N Subject to Blackout) Å ●NFL Live Å NBA Coast to Coast (N) (Live) Å ESPN2 ●NFL Live (N) (Live) Å SportsCenter Special: On the Clock (N) (Live) Å The Secret Life of the American Teenager (N) ’ Make It or Break It “Dream On” (N) ’ Å The Secret Life of the American Teenager Å The 700 Club Songwriter Allen Shamblin. Å FAM Secret-Teen Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Meat Men (N) Diners, Drive FOOD Diners, Drive ●Braves Live! Pregame ●MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Los Angeles Dodgers. From Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. (N) (Live) The Panel The Panel The Panel FOXSS The Panel Two and a Half Men ’ › “Wild Hogs” (2007, Comedy) Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence. Four friends take a motorcycle road trip. › “Wild Hogs” (2007) Tim Allen. Four friends take a motorcycle road trip.

FX ›› “I, Robot” (2004, Science Fiction) Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan. A homicide detective tracks a dangerous robot in 2035. Å ›› “I, Robot” (2004, Science Fiction) Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan. Å FXM FXM Presents Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud Å Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å GSN Family Feud Å Little House on the Little House on the Prairie “The Halloween Dream” Little House on the Prairie “The Little House Years” Frasier Frasier resorts to Frasier Frasier and Martin Frasier Cranes testify in Frasier Frasier falls for a HALL Prairie Å Albert dreams that he’s captured. Å Ingalls tell about coming to town. Å physical force. ’ Å play chess. ’ Å competency case. Å traffic cop. ’ Å Veep “Fundraiser” Å ›› “Fast Five” (2011) Vin Diesel. Dom Toretto and company ramp up the action in Brazil. ‘PG-13’ Å The Ricky Gervais Show HBO ●24/7 Mayweather/Cotto Real Time With Bill Maher ’ Å Property Virgins Å Property Virgins Å House Hunters (N) Å Hunters Int’l Love It or List It Compact, busy urban home. Å H&G Love It or List It “Hung” Love It or List It “Jim & Connie” Jim and Connie.

Pawn Stars World War II Pawn Stars “To the Moon” Pawn Stars An A6 Texan American Pickers “Mike’s Holy Grail” The holy grail of Pawn Stars “Chum-p Pawn Stars A rare three- American Pickers “Picker Man Blues” Tricky Dick’s HIST bomb-sight. Å Å fighter plane; VW Thing. motorbikes; XAVW. (N) Å Change” (N) Å trigger Stevens shotgun. Tennessee yard. Å To Be Announced To Be Announced LIFE To Be Announced ›› “Major League” (1989) Tom Berenger. A ragtag team tries to turn its poor performance around. ‘R’ › “Major League II” (1994) Charlie Sheen. The Cleveland Indians return for another pennant race. ‘PG’ MAX ›› The Eagle (2011) The First World War “War Without End” Å World War I in Color “Catastrophe” ’ Å World War I in Color “Blood in the Air” ’ Å The First World War “War Without End” Å MILIT The First World War Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory Fantasy Factory MTV Fantasy Factory Can It Be Built? Building the world’s tallest building. Wild Justice A house where pit-bulls guard a safe.

Navajo Cops “Gangs, Guns and Guts” (N) Can It Be Built? Building the world’s tallest building.

NGEO Border Wars George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å Friends ’ Å Friends ’ Å NICK Fred: The Show (N) Å Spy Wars The world of espionage. ’ Å Nerve Center “Cirque du Soleil’s “O”” ’ Å Nerve Center The Port of Los Angeles. (N) ’ Å Spy Wars The world of espionage. ’ Å SCIENCE How It’s Made ’ Å Weeds ’ Å The Borgias Lucrezia embarks on a hunger strike.

Nurse Jackie “The Wall” The Big C ’ Å The Borgias Lucrezia embarks on a hunger strike.

SHOW Few Options (2011) ‘NR’ Weeds “Bags” ’ Å Days of our Lives ’ Å General Hospital ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å Days of our Lives ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●Gearz ●Gearz ●NASCAR Race Hub Two Guys Garage Two Guys Garage Hot Rod TV (N) ’ Hot Rod TV ’ SPEED ●Pass Time › “Halloween” (2007, Horror) Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane. An escaped psychopath slashes his way through his hometown. ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ SPIKE ››› “Joy Ride” (2001) Steve Zahn. Premiere. ’ ●College Baseball South Carolina at Auburn.

SPSO ●College Football Tennessee Orange vs. White Spring.

Eureka “Lost” The crew is faced with a new reality.

Eureka The town continues searching. (N) ’ Å Lost Girl “I Fought the Fae (and the Fae Won)” (N) Eureka The town continues searching. ’ Å SYFY Eureka ’ Å Behind the Scenes Å Creating Your World Kingdom Connection Jesse Duplantis Å Praise the Lord Å TBN The Potter’s Touch Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Conan (N) TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ›› “Steel Against the ›› “Ambush” (1949, Western) Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl. Cavalry- ›› “Ride Lonesome” (1959, Western) Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell ››› “Geronimo” (1962, Western) Chuck Connors, TCM Sky” (1941) Lloyd Nolan. men assigned to rescue a woman quarrel. Å Roberts. Two outlaws and a widow join a bounty hunter on a killer’s trail. Å Kamala Devi, Ross Martin.

Undercover Boss: Abroad (N) ’ Å Undercover Boss: Abroad The Hog’s Breath Cafe.

Mama’s Boys Mama’s Boys Undercover Boss: Abroad ’ Å TLC Undercover Boss Law & Order Divorce at- The Mentalist “Red Sky in the Morning” A copycat The Mentalist “The Blood on His Hands” Cult leader The Closer “Repeat Offender” The department under- Rizzoli & Isles “Don’t Stop Dancing, Girl” A dancer’s TNT torney suffers assault. ’ murder looks like those of Red John. ’ Å has information on Red John. ’ Å goes a realignment. Å mother is killed. Å Regular Show MAD (N) King of the Hill “Pilot” King of the Hill ’ Å American Dad ’ Å American Dad ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Adventure Time (N) Home Improvement Home Improvement Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond The King of Queens ’ TVLND Home Improvement ●WWE Monday Night RAW (N) ’ (Live) Å › “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” (2009) Å USA NCIS: Los Angeles Å Couples Therapy The underlying causes. ’ La La’s Full Court Life Styled by June (N) ’ House of Consignment House of Consignment La La’s Full Court Life Styled by June ’ VH1 Basketball Wives ’ CABLE NEWS Biography on CNBC “Sears” The Facebook Obsession The rise of Facebook.

Mad Money CNBC The Kudlow Report (N) Marijuana Inc.: Inside America’s Pot Industry Piers Morgan Tonight (N) Anderson Cooper 360 Å Erin Burnett OutFront CNN Erin Burnett OutFront (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å Politics & Public Policy Today CSPAN House of Reps.

The Communicators Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor Å FNC FOX Report The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell (N) The Ed Show MSNBC Hardball Chris Matthews The Ed Show (N)

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New Girl “Tomatoes” (N) New Girl ’ Å FOX6 News at 9:00 PM FOX6 News at 9:30 PM FOX6 News at 10:00 PM America Now (N) Å & WBRC Inside Edition (N) Å PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å American Experience “The Crash of 1929” ConseFrontline “Money, Power and Wall Street” Largest government bailout. (N) ’ (Part 1 of 2) Å Rick Steves’ Europe ’ Å Capitol Journal Å _ WCIQ quences of the 1929 market crash. Å (DVS) Access Hollywood ’ Å The Biggest Loser The third finalist is revealed. (N) ’ The Voice “Live Eliminations” The contestants face Fashion Star “Mentor’s Choice” The mentors assign Alabama’s 13 News at The Tonight Show With ` WVTM Å elimination. (N) ’ (Live) Å designs. (N) 10:00pm (N) Å Jay Leno (N) ’ Å The L.A. Complex “Down in L.A.” ’ Seinfeld “The Letter” ’ 30 Rock “Mama Mia” ’ The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO The Big Bang Theory ’ 90210 Annie confesses her feelings to Caleb. (N) ’ In. Gamecock Most Wanted The Andy Griffith Show Cheers ’ Å TV24 News at Nine Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS The Lucy Show Å Wheel of Fortune “Ameri- Last Man Standing “Tree Cougar Town Laurie’s Dancing With the Stars (N) ’ (Live) Å Private Practice “And Then There Was One” Pete and ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU ca’s Game” (N) Å of Strife” ’ Å business finds success.

Violet go to a counselor. (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) NCIS “Engaged, Part 1” The team investigates a plane NCIS: Los Angeles “Honor” The team investigates a Unforgettable “Golden Bird” A teenager is murdered. CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å crash. ’ (Part 1 of 2) Å (DVS) former Marine. ’ Å (DVS) ’Å Letterman (N) ’ Å Criminal Minds “Parasite” ’ Å Criminal Minds “Public Enemy” ’ Å Flashpoint A student brings a gun to school. Å Flashpoint “Exit Wounds” Standoff at a hospital. ’ L WPXH Criminal Minds ’ Å Cold Case “The War at Home” Female war veteran.

Cold Case Disc jockey was murdered in 1958. Å The King of Queens ’ American Dad ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Seinfeld “The Hot Tub” CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å A&E Storage Wars Å CSI: Miami “The Score” ’ ››› “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000, Comedy-Drama) George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson. Three escaped convicts ››› “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000) George Clooney, John Turturro. Three AMC Å embark on an unusual odyssey. Å escaped convicts embark on an unusual odyssey. Å Wild Russia The land dividing Europe and Asia. ’ Frozen Planet “The Ends of the Earth” Polar bears battle for mates. ’ Å Wild Russia The land dividing Europe and Asia. ’ ANPL Wild Russia ’ Å Top Gear The Renaultsport Twingo 133. Å Kitchen Nightmares “Kingston Café” ’ Å No Kitchen Required “Fiji” Fiji. (N) Å No Kitchen Required Chiang Dao, Thailand. Å BBC Top Gear Å Let’s Stay Together The Game ’ Å The Game ’ Å The Game (N) ’ Å Let’s Stay Together (N) The Game ’ Å Let’s Stay Together BET 106 & Park: Top 10 Live Let’s Stay Together Exposed: Pro Wrestling Breaking The Magician’s Code Å Breaking The Magician’s Code The WWE Divas.

The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling The history of professional wrestling. Å BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County (N) Å The Real Housewives of Orange County Å What Happens Housewives/OC BRAVO Housewives/NJ ›› “Young Guns” (1988) Emilio Estevez. Six deputized regulators become the objects of a manhunt. ›› “Young Guns II” (1990) Emilio Estevez. ’ CMTV ›› “Young Guns II” (1990, Western) Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland. ’ Workaholics Å South Park “You Got...”

Tosh.0 Å Tosh.0 Å Tosh.0 Å Tosh.0 Å Daily Show/Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY 30 Rock ’ Å Deadliest Catch “Turf War” ’ Å Deadliest Catch “Weak Links” (N) ’ Å Deadliest Catch “Inside the Catch: Near Death” (N) Deadliest Catch “Weak Links” ’ Å DISC Deadliest Catch ’ Å Austin & Ally “Burglaries A.N.T. Farm Olive’s pet ro- “Another Cinderella Story” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Selena Gomez. A young Jessie “Romancing the Austin & Ally “Managers Wizards of Waverly Place Good Luck Charlie “Teddy DISN & Boobytraps” ’ Å bot no longer works. man falls in love with a pretty dancer at a masked ball. ’ ‘PG’ Å Crone” ’ Å & Meatballs” ’ Å ’Å Rebounds” Å E! News (N) Ice Loves Coco Ice Loves Coco ›› “Along Came Polly” (2004) Ben Stiller. A jilted newlywed finds solace with another woman.

Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●NFL Live (N) (Live) Å ●SportsCenter Special (N) Å ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å SportsCenter Special: On the Clock (N) (Live) Å ESPN ●E:60 (N) ●E:60 (N) ●Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) Å ●NFL Live (N) Å ESPN2 ●Bowling Women’s USBC Queens. From Arlington, Texas. (N) (Live) Å ›› “Richie Rich” (1994) Macaulay Culkin. A young billionaire crosses paths with a greedy executive.

The 700 Club A woman’s faith affects her marriage.

FAM ›› “Jumanji” (1995, Fantasy) Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst.

Cupcake Wars Los Angeles Derby Dolls.

Chopped Canned cheese for appetizers.

Chopped Protein shocker; astronaut ice cream.

Chopped “Keep on Cook’n On” Pasta dishes.

FOOD Cupcake Wars ●The Best of Pride World Poker Tour: Season 10 FOXSS ●College Baseball (N) (Live) Two and a Half Men ’ ›› “Dear John” (2010, Romance) Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas. Premiere. ›› “Dear John” (2010, Romance) Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas.

FX ›› “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal. Global warming leads to worldwide natural disasters. Å ›› “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal. Å FXM FXM Presents Å The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game GSN The Newlywed Game Little House on the Little House on the Prairie “The Return of Mr. EdLittle House on the Prairie “The King Is Dead” A con Frasier Frasier helps his Frasier Roz mistakenly Frasier Focus group rates Frasier Flashbacks reveal HALL Prairie (Part 3 of 3) Å wards” Rushing to help Mr. Edwards. Å artist and a wrestler arrive. Å agent quit smoking. Å thinks Frasier loves her.

Frasier’s show. ’ life changes. ’ Å ●24/7 Mayweather/Cotto Veep “Fundraiser” Å ›› “Water for Elephants” (2011, Drama) Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Game of Thrones Joffrey punishes Sansa. ’ Å HBO Dawn Treader Celebrities at Home (N) Million Dollar Rooms The White Room Challenge (N) Å House Hunters (N) Å Hunters Int’l Million Dollar Rooms 2 Å H&G House Hunters Å American Pickers “Motor Pawn Stars 1924 Dodge Pawn Stars “James Gang Swamp People “Gates of Hell” Traffic spoils Troy’s Top Shot “Have Machine Gun Will Travel” A belt-fed Top Shot “Have Machine Gun Will Travel” A belt-fed HIST City” Å Brothers sedan. Å Rides Again” Å hunting grounds. Å Browning 1919 machine gun. (N) Å Browning 1919 machine gun. Å Dance Moms: Miami “Don’t Judge Me!” Å Dance Moms: Miami “Your Duet Can Take a Bow” Love for Sail Two women experience jealousy. (N) The Client List Riley gets a promotion. Å LIFE Wife Swap ’ Å › “Little Fockers” (2010, Comedy) Robert De Niro. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Girl’s Guide to Depravity MAX ››› “The Town” (2010, Crime Drama) Ben Affleck. A woman doesn’t realize that her new beau is a bank robber. ’ ‘R’ Å Combat Zone Battle of Tal Afar, Iraq. ’ Å Greatest Tank Battles The most studied tank battle. Edge of War “Saddam vs. the Ayotollah” (N) ’ Combat Zone Battle of Tal Afar, Iraq. ’ Å MILIT V-22 Osprey Punk’d ’ Å 16 and Pregnant “Alex” An aspiring dancer. ’ Å 16 and Pregnant (N) ’ Å Savage U (N) ’ 16 and Pregnant Å MTV Punk’d ’ Å Doomsday Preppers “I Suggest We Run” Doomsday Preppers “Extreme Prep Edition” (N) Amish: Out of Order “Culture Clash” (N) Doomsday Preppers “Extreme Prep Edition” NGEO Border Wars George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å Friends ’ Å Friends ’ Å NICK Fred: The Show (N) Å Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Å Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Å Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Å SCIENCE Through the Wormhole Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Å The Big C ’ Å Nurse Jackie “The Wall” The Borgias Lucrezia embarks on a hunger strike.

The Big C ’ Å Nurse Jackie “The Wall” SHOW ›› I Am Number Four The Borgias Lucrezia embarks on a hunger strike.

Days of our Lives ’ Å General Hospital ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å Days of our Lives ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●NASCAR Race Hub Battle of the Supercars Battle of the Supercars Pimp My Ride ’ Pimp My Ride ’ My Ride Rules (N) My Ride Rules SPEED ●Pass Time Big Easy Justice Å Big Easy Justice Å Big Easy Justice (N) ’ Big Easy Justice Å Repo Games ’ Repo Games (N) ’ SPIKE DEA Cocaine dead drop. DEA “Big Rig Meth Bust” Capturing a dope dealer. ●MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Los Angeles Dodgers. From Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. (N) (Live) SPSO ●NBA Basketball Los Angeles Clippers at Atlanta Hawks. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (N) (Live) Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files (N) Dream Machines (N) Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files SYFY Dream Machines Behind the Scenes Å Joyce Meyer John Hagee Today Å Breakthrough W/Parsley Praise the Lord Å TBN The Potter’s Touch Å The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ Conan (N) Å TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ›››› “The Apartment” ››› “The Way We Were” (1973, Romance) Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman. Political dif- ›››› “Funny Girl” (1968, Musical) Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon. Ziegfeld Follies’ Fanny TCM (1960) Å ferences threaten a couple’s romance. Å Brice loves gambler Nicky Arnstein. Å Say Yes: Bridesmaids Extreme Cheapskates ’ Å The Little Couple (N) ’ The Little Couple Å Say Yes: Bridesmaids Say Yes: Bridesmaids TLC Long Island Medium ’ Say Yes: Bridesmaids ●NBA Basketball Miami Heat at Boston Celtics. From TD Garden in Boston. (N) (Live) Å ●NBA Basketball Phoenix Suns at Utah Jazz. From EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Bones A blue corpse is TNT found in a landfill. Å Lake City. (N) (Live) Å Level Up “Headquarters” Adventure Time King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å American Dad ’ Å American Dad ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON World of Gumball Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Happily Divorced Å Hot in Cleveland Å TVLND M*A*S*H Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Contact” Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Legacy” Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Runaway” ’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ’ Å (DVS) USA Law & Order: SVU Mob Wives Karen faces harsh critics. ’ Å Tough Love: New Orleans Dating in the digital age. House of Consignment House of Consignment Basketball Wives Fallout from the racetrack. ’ VH1 Basketball Wives ’ CABLE NEWS 60 Minutes on CNBC “Deadly Secrets” 60 Minutes on CNBC “The Billionaires” Mad Money CNBC The Kudlow Report (N) Target: Inside the Bullseye Piers Morgan Tonight (N) Anderson Cooper 360 Å Erin Burnett OutFront CNN Erin Burnett OutFront (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å Capitol Hill Hearings CSPAN House of Reps.

Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor Å FNC FOX Report The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell (N) The Ed Show MSNBC Hardball Chris Matthews The Ed Show (N)

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Criminal Minds A truck driver kidnaps women. Å Criminal Minds “The Fight” ’ Å L WPXH Cold Case ’ Å Burn Notice Michael’s neighbor needs his help. ’ Burn Notice Sensitive flight information. ’ Å The King of Queens ’ American Dad ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Seinfeld ’ Å CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Storage Wars Å Storage Wars Å Dog the Bounty Hunter Dog the Bounty Hunter Duck Dynasty (N) Å Duck Dynasty Å Duck Dynasty Å Duck Dynasty Å A&E Storage Wars Å CSI: Miami Horatio battles ››› “North Country” (2005, Drama) Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean. A miner charges her employer with sexual harassment. Å ›› “Legends of the Fall” (1994, Drama) Brad Pitt, AMC his nemesis. Å Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn. Å Tanked Robotics company; pinball enthusiast. ’ River Monsters “Invisible Executioner” ’ River Monsters “Asian Slayer” ’ Tanked Robotics company; pinball enthusiast. ’ ANPL Tanked “Be Cool” Å Top Gear Cars as art. Å Kitchen Nightmares “Classic American” ’ Å Whitechapel The myth of The Bogeyman. (N) Å Kitchen Nightmares “Kingston Café” ’ Å BBC Top Gear Å The Game “Skeletons” The Game ’ Å BET 106 & Park: Top 10 Live ››› “Baby Boy” (2001, Drama) Tyrese Gibson, Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson. A man juggles womanizing with fighting his mother’s boyfriend. Å Mobsters “Roy DeMeo” Outlaw Bikers The Spartans and Los Bravos. Å Outlaw Bikers “Fallen Angels” Å Gang World One of the fastest growing gangs.

Gang World Criminal culture of motorcycle gangs.

BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis “Mama’s House” Million Dollar Listing New York (N) What Happens Interior Therapy BRAVO Interior Therapy ›› “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young. ’ Å ›› “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young. ’ Å CMTV Extreme-Home Chappelle’s Show Å Key & Peele South Park Å South Park Å South Park Å Ugly Americans Å Daily Show/Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY 30 Rock ’ Å American Guns “Guts and Glory” ’ Å American Guns (Season Premiere) (N) ’ Å Auction Kings ’ Å Auction Kings (N) Å American Guns ’ Å DISC American Guns ’ Å Austin & Ally “Soups & Jessie Jessie tries to Phineas and Ferb “Meap- Shake It Up! “Weird It Up” Jessie “The Kid Whisper- Jessie Jessie has every- Austin & Ally “Club Own- Wizards of Waverly Place Good Luck Charlie Gabe DISN Stars” ’ Å unglue hands. ’ Å less in Seattle” ’ ’Å er” ’ Å one take the subway. ’ ers & Quinceaneras” ’ ’Å is in charge of Charlie.

E! News (N) ›› “Legally Blonde” (2001, Comedy) Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair. Premiere.

The Soup (N) The Soup Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●NBA Basketball Los Angeles Clippers at New York Knicks. From Madison Square Garden in New York. (N) (Live) NBA Basketball San Antonio Spurs at Phoenix Suns. (N) (Live) ESPN ●NBA Countdown (N) ●Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) Å ●SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å ESPN2 ●MLB Baseball Teams TBA. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) Å ›› “The Pacifier” (2005, Comedy) Vin Diesel. A Navy SEAL becomes the guardian of five siblings.

The 700 Club A man witnesses the power of God. FAM ›› “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009, Comedy) Kevin James, Jayma Mays.

Restaurant: Impossible “Chatterbox” Restaurant: Impossible “Pelican Grill” (N) Chopped All-Stars FOOD Restaurant: Impossible Restaurant: Impossible “The Trails” The Panel The Panel The Panel The Panel The Panel Barfly World Poker Tour: Season 10 FOXSS Action Sports World Two and a Half Men ’ ›› “Ghost Rider” (2007, Action) Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes. A motorcycle stuntman is a supernatural agent of vengeance. ››› “1408” (2007, Horror) John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson.

FX FXM Presents Å ››› “The Wrestler” (2008, Drama) Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood. Å FXM ››› “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008, Comedy-Drama) Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal. Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å GSN Family Feud ’ Å Little House on the Little House on the Prairie “Crossed Connections” Little House on the Prairie “The Angry Heart” Neigh- Frasier Niles poses as Frasier “Love Bites Dog” Frasier A recurring dream Frasier The Cranes meet a HALL Prairie “Author, Author” Mrs. Oleson eavesdrops on phone calls. Å bors’ grandson is a bully. Å Daphne’s husband. Å ’Å confuses Frasier. reclusive author. Å Portrait of a Fighter Floyd Mayweather Veep “Fundraiser” Å Girls “Vagina Panic” ’ Game of Thrones Joffrey punishes Sansa. ’ Å Real Time With Bill Maher ’ Å HBO ›› The Losers (2010) Income Property Å Kitchen Cousins Å Property Brothers A couple must be open-minded.

House Hunters (N) Å Hunters Int’l Property Brothers Tired of being in a tiny condo.

H&G House Hunters Å American Restoration American Restoration “Blast Off!” A 1960s rocketSold! Jerry stocks the Sold! “Fire Sale” Fire-fight- American Restoration (N) American Restoration (N) Sold! Rick and Mike use a Sold! The gang holds a HIST “Double Trouble” Å slide is brought in. Å block with fun items. (N) ing veteran’s auction. Å Å hovercraft. Å guns-only auction. Å Wife Swap Southern belle; dairy farmer. ’ Å Wife Swap Obsessed with entering sweepstakes.

Wife Swap Couple dress as superheroes. ’ Å Wife Swap Mother of an interracial family. ’ Å LIFE To Be Announced ››› “The Accused” (1988, Drama) Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson. ’ ‘R’ Å ››› “Get Him to the Greek” (2010, Comedy) Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss. ’ ‘NR’ Å MAX Big Mommas The Greatest Ever “Helicopters” ’ Å The Greatest Ever “Fighter Planes” ’ Å Great Planes The history of the B29 Superfortress.

The Greatest Ever “Helicopters” ’ Å MILIT Top Tens “Helicopters” 16 and Pregnant ’ Å America’s Best Dance Crew America’s Best Dance Crew America’s Best Dance Crew MTV Ridiculousness ’ Locked Up Abroad “Teenage Drug Smuggler” Locked Up Abroad Backpackers are taken hostage. Locked Up Abroad “From Hollywood to Hell” Locked Up Abroad “From Hollywood to Hell” NGEO Border Wars George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å Friends Fertility clinic. ’ Friends ’ Å NICK Fred: The Show (N) Å Deep Space Marvels Solar system; planet hunters.

Deep Space Marvels “Survival” ’ Å Deep Space Marvels “Destiny” ’ Å Deep Space Marvels Solar system; planet hunters.

SCIENCE How Do They ›› “Scream 4” (2011) Neve Campbell. The Ghostface Killer returns to claim new victims. ’ ‘R’ Å ›› “Piranha” (2010) Elisabeth Shue. ’ ‘R’ Å SHOW ›› “Red” (2010, Action) Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Days of our Lives ’ Å General Hospital ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å Days of our Lives ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●NASCAR Race Hub Dumbest Stuff Dumbest Stuff Car Warriors Billy Bob Customs and Plum Crazy.

Stuntbusters Stuntbusters SPEED ●Pass Time Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters ’ Auction Hunters (N) ’ Auction Hunters ’ American Digger (N) ’ American Digger ’ American Digger ’ American Digger ’ SPIKE Auction Hunters ’ ●At Home ●Braves Live! Pregame ●MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Los Angeles Dodgers. From Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. (N) (Live) Spotlight SPSO ●In My Own Words Ghost Hunters Mysterious set of ruins in Ireland. ’ Ghost Hunters “A Family of Spirits” (N) ’ Å Total Blackout (Series Premiere) (N) Ghost Hunters “A Family of Spirits” ’ Å SYFY Ghost Hunters ’ Å Behind the Scenes Å Turning Point Joseph Prince Å End of the Age Praise the Lord Å TBN Billy Graham Crusade Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ Conan (N) Å TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ›› “Riders to the Stars” ›› “Sweepings” (1933, Drama) Lionel Barrymore, Alan Dinehart, Gloria Stuart. A ›› “Jalna” (1935, Drama) Kay Johnson, Ian Hunter, C. Aubrey Smith. An Ontario ››› “Little Lord Fauntleroy” (1936, Drama) Freddie TCM (1954) store owner’s children show no interest in his business. estate is the setting for love, lust and greed.

Bartholomew, C. Aubrey Smith. Å Toddlers & Tiaras (N) ’ Å Toddlers & Tiaras Destiny; Camari; Sami-Jo. Å TLC My Strange Addiction ’ My Crazy Obsession ’ My Crazy Obsession ’ Toddlers & Tiaras Destiny; Camari; Sami-Jo. Å Law & Order “Untitled” ’ Law & Order “Personae Non Grata” The murder of an Law & Order “Legacy” Hired killer targets a family Law & Order “Couples” Mysterious homicides. ’ Å CSI: NY “Hung Out to Dry” Serial killer uses codes. ’ TNT Å (DVS) automobile mechanic. ’ Å (DVS) man. ’ Å (DVS) (DVS) Å NinjaGo: Masters Level Up “Headquarters” King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å American Dad Å American Dad ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy “Holy Crap” TOON Johnny Test ’ Å Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Hot in Cleveland (N) Happily Divorced (N) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ TVLND M*A*S*H “The Sniper” NCIS A Navy lieutenant is poisoned. ’ Å NCIS “Iceman” A Marine on life support. ’ Å NCIS “Cover Story” A petty officer is murdered. ’ Fairly Legal Kate and Ben defend a victim. Å USA NCIS ’ Å Couples Therapy (N) ’ Behind the Music “Brandy” Brandy. ’ Å VH1 La La’s Full Court Life La La’s Full Court Life La La’s Full Court Life Behind the Music “Brandy” Brandy. ’ Å CABLE NEWS American Greed “Danny Pang and The Bling Ring” American Greed Mad Money CNBC The Kudlow Report (N) The New Age of Wal-Mart Piers Morgan Tonight (N) Anderson Cooper 360 Å Erin Burnett OutFront CNN Erin Burnett OutFront (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å Capitol Hill Hearings CSPAN House of Reps.

Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor Å FNC FOX Report The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell (N) The Ed Show MSNBC Hardball Chris Matthews The Ed Show (N)

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Touch Martin searches for Teller’s workshop. (N) FOX6 News at 9:00 PM FOX6 News at 9:30 PM FOX6 News at 10:00 PM America Now (N) Å Antiques Roadshow “Atlanta” “Gone With the Wind”; The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color We Have Signal! “The Capitol Journal Å bracelet. (N) ’ (Part 2 of 3) Å Nazi invasion of Poland; Pearl Harbor. Å Protomen” Å Access Hollywood (N) ’ Community A science ex- 30 Rock Kenneth fights to The Office Andy crashes a Parks and Recreation Awake “Game Day” A big football rivalry. (N) ’ Alabama’s 13 News at The Tonight Show With ` WVTM Å periment is destroyed. ’ keep TGS a live show. fundraiser. (N) ’ Å “The Debate” (N) Å 10:00pm (N) Å Jay Leno (N) ’ Å The Secret Circle “Traitor” A crystal is stolen. (N) Seinfeld “The Trip” 30 Rock “Season 4” ’ The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO The Big Bang Theory ’ The Vampire Diaries “Do Not Go Gentle” (N) Å The Lucy Show Å In. Gamecock The Andy Griffith Show Cheers ’ Å TV24 News at Nine Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS The Lucy Show Å Wheel of Fortune “Ameri- Missing “Measure of a Man” Becca recalls details of a Grey’s Anatomy “Moment of Truth” The residents take Scandal “Enemy of the State” The team helps a dicta- ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU ca’s Game” (N) Å past case. (N) ’ Å the oral boards. (N) ’ Å tor. (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) The Big Bang Theory Rules of Engagement Person of Interest “Matsya Nyaya” Reese remembers The Mentalist “Ruby Slippers” A man turns up dead CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å “The Stag Convergence” “The Five Things” (N) ’ his last CIA mission. (N) ’ Å outside a cabaret. (N) ’ Å Letterman ’ Å Cold Case A college-bound man’s disappearance.

Cold Case A wealthy family matriarch’s death. Å Criminal Minds A killer targets illegal immigrants. ’ Criminal Minds The team must profile a serial killer.

L WPXH Cold Case ’ Å Without a Trace Missing woman’s sexual history.

Without a Trace Boy’s blood is found in a lavatory.

The King of Queens ’ American Dad ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Seinfeld ’ Å CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight The First 48 A church keyboardist is gunned down.

The First 48 A man is found dead in his truck’s cab.

The First 48 “Update Special: In Harm’s Way” (N) The First 48 A robber kills a good Samaritan. Å A&E The First 48 Å CSI: Miami Evidence con- ›››› “Apocalypse Now Redux” (2001, War) Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen. An Army agent goes upriver in Cambodia to kill a renegade. Å AMC tradicts a trial’s verdict.

Wild Russia ’ Å Wild Russia The creatures that inhabit Siberia. ’ Wild Russia The Urals, home to iconic animals. ’ Wild Russia ’ Å ANPL Blue Planet: Seas/Life Top Gear Jeremy makes a film about the BMW X6.

Top Gear Interstate road trip w/ challenges. Å Top Gear The Supercar Shootout in Italy. Å Crash Course BBC Top Gear Å ››› “The Brothers” (2001) Morris Chestnut. Four friends take different approaches to love and dating.

BET ›› “Why Did I Get Married?” (2007) Tyler Perry, Jill Scott. Eight married friends grapple with commitment and betrayal. Å Flip This House Å Flip This House Flipping “boot camp.” Å Flip This House A Cape Cod-style home. Å Celebrity House Hunting Celebrity House Hunting Celebrity House Hunting Celebrity House Hunting BIO The Real Housewives of New Jersey Don’t Be Tardy Don’t Be Tardy Kathy (N) What Happens Don’t Be Tardy BRAVO Housewives/Atl. Melissa & Tye ’ Å Jennie Garth: Country CMTV ›› Groundhog Day ’ ›› “You’ve Got Mail” (1998, Romance-Comedy) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey. Two bitter business rivals conduct an online love affair. ’ Futurama ’ Å Futurama ’ Å Futurama ’ Å Futurama ’ Å South Park Å Tosh.0 Å Daily Show/Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY 30 Rock ’ Å Auction Kings ’ Å Auction Kings ’ Å Jesus Conspiracies “Jesus’ Lost Years” ’ Å Jesus Conspiracies “Who Was Mary Magdalene?”

Jesus Conspiracies “Jesus’ Lost Years” ’ Å DISC Auction Kings ’ Å Austin & Ally Trish books A.N.T. Farm Violet joins “My Babysitter’s a Vampire” (2010, Comedy) Matthew Knight, Vanessa Morgan. A Jessie “Zuri’s New Old Austin & Ally Austin gets Wizards of Waverly Place Good Luck Charlie “PushDISN a gig for Austin. the ANT program. Å teen learns that his beautiful baby sitter is a vampire. ’ ‘NR’ Å Friend” ’ Å ready for a contest. Å ’Å ing Buttons” Å E! News (N) The Soup Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Khloe and Lamar Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●SportsCenter (N) Å ESPN SportsCenter Special (N) ●2012 NFL Draft From New York. (N) (Live) Å ●E:60 ●Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) Å ●SportsCenter (N) Å ●MMA Live (N) ESPN2 ●College Softball Texas at Texas A&M. (N) (Live) › “Gone in Sixty Seconds” (2000, Action) Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie. A retired thief must steal 50 cars to save his brother.

The 700 Club Elizabeth Shepard; Clayton Kershaw.

FAM ›› “The Pacifier” (2005, Comedy) Vin Diesel.

Chopped Duck hearts in the second round.

Chopped Hearts of palm and rabbit escabeche.

Sweet Genius Baby themed chocolate test. (N) Sweet Genius Marshmallows and water chestnuts.

FOOD Chopped ●ACC All-Access ●The Best of Pride World Poker Tour: Season 10 Barfly Hockey History in Music City FOXSS World Poker Tour Two and a Half Men ’ Two and a Half Men ’ Two and a Half Men ’ › “88 Minutes” (2007, Suspense) Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski. A man must track down the source of a death threat. › 88 Minutes (2007) FX ›› “The Soloist” (2009) Jamie Foxx. Mental illness hampers a Skid Row musician’s dreams. Å FXM Presents Å ›› “The Soloist” (2009, Drama) Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr. Å FXM FXM Presents Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å Little House on the Little House on the Prairie “Darkness Is My Friend” Little House on the Prairie “Silent Promises” Sign-lan- Frasier Niles fills in for Frasier Niles misses out Frasier “A Lilith Thanksgiv- Frasier Martin buys gifts HALL Prairie Å Escaped convicts take hostages. Å guage pupil falls in love. Å Frasier on the radio. ’ on Daphne. ’ Å ing” ’ Å for Frasier and Niles. ’ ›› “Horrible Bosses” (2011, Comedy) Jason Bateman. ’ ‘R’ Å Making Veep ’ Å True Blood Sookie nurtures Eric. ’ Å Frisky Business Katie Morgan’s Sex Quiz HBO ›› Knight and Day ’ Selling New York Å Selling New York Å Selling LA Å Selling New York Å House Hunters (N) Å Hunters Int’l House Hunters Å Hunters Int’l H&G House Hunters Å Swamp People “Rebound” Swamp People “Gates of Hell” Traffic spoils Troy’s Swamp People “Under Siege” R.J. and Jay Paul go af- Ax Men “Up in Flames” Jimmy Smith braves the Modern Marvels “Logging Tech” The controversial logHIST Å hunting grounds. Å ter Pas Tout La. (N) Å Suwannee River. Å ging industry topples 4 billion trees annually.

Wife Swap ’ Å Wife Swap ’ Å 7 Days of Sex (Series Premiere) (N) Å The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet Å LIFE Wife Swap ’ Å ›››› “Alien” (1979) Tom Skerritt. A horrific spaceship stowaway attacks interstellar miners. ‘R’ Å MAX X-Men: First Class (2011) ›› “Arthur” (2011) Russell Brand. An irresponsible playboy must choose between love and money. ’ Weaponology Battlefield traps cause damage. Å Weaponology “Rapid Fire” ’ Å Weaponology Rifles that kill from 2,000 yards. ’ Weaponology Battlefield traps cause damage. Å MILIT Greatest Tank Battles America’s Best Dance Crew Punk’d ’ Å Punk’d ’ Å Punk’d (N) ’ Å The Pauly D Project (N) Punk’d Special (N) ’ Punk’d ’ Å MTV Ridiculousness ’ The Decrypters “Gold Rush Murder” (N) The Great American Manhunt “The Miracle Man” Light the Ocean The Decrypters “Gold Rush Murder” NGEO Border Wars George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å Friends ’ Å Friends ’ Å NICK Fred: The Show (N) Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made (N) Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å SCIENCE How It’s Made ’ Å ›› “Flypaper” (2011) Patrick Dempsey. A man tries to protect a bank teller.

“Last Night” (2010, Drama) Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington. Premiere. ‘R’ Gigolos ’ Å Girls of Sunset Place (N) SHOW How to Lose Days of our Lives ’ Å General Hospital ’ Å The Young and the Restless ’ Å Days of our Lives ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●NASCAR Race Hub Denny Hamlin Short Track Showdown From Richmond International Raceway.

American Trucker American Trucker SPEED NASCAR Racing K&N Pro Series: Richmond. (N) ●iMPACT Wrestling (N) ’ Å ●MMA Uncensored Live 1,000 Ways to Die ’ Big Easy Justice Å Big Easy Justice Å SPIKE Jail ’ Å ●Hawks Live! Postgame ●ACC All-Access (N) ●Spotlight SPSO ●Hawks Live! Pregame ●NBA Basketball Dallas Mavericks at Atlanta Hawks. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (N) (Live) ›› “Jeepers Creepers” (2001) Gina Philips. A flesh-eating entity pursues sibling college students. ›› “Jeepers Creepers 2” (2003) Ray Wise. Å SYFY ›› “Jeepers Creepers 2” (2003, Horror) Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck. Å Behind the Scenes Å Joel Osteen Å Joseph Prince Å Houston at Hillsong TV ››› “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) Jim Caviezel. Jesus endures the agony of his final 12 hours.

TBN The Potter’s Touch Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory ’ Conan (N) Å TBS Seinfeld “The Voice” ’ ››› “The Misfits” (1961) ›› “Triple Cross” (1967, Suspense) Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider. A British safecracker ››› “The Magnificent Seven” (1960, Western) Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen. A man in black reTCM Clark Gable. Å becomes a double agent during WWII. cruits hired guns to defend Mexican villagers. Å Strange Sex ’ Å Strange Sex ’ Å Strange Sex: The Year’s Best ’ Å Strange Sex ’ Å Strange Sex ’ Å TLC Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive “Tiny Monsters” ’ Å ●NBA Basketball San Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors. From Oracle Arena Bones Pulverized human ●NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Charlotte Bobcats. From Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. (N) (Live) Å TNT remains are found. Å in Oakland, Calif. (N) (Live) Å MAD Regular Show King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å American Dad ’ Å American Dad ’ Å Family Guy “DaBoom” Family Guy ’ Å TOON Adventure Time Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond The King of Queens ’ TVLND M*A*S*H Å NCIS “Ex-File” A Marine captain is murdered. Å NCIS Misidentified cadaver was murdered. ’ Å NCIS “Leap of Faith” A distraught naval officer. ’ In Plain Sight Mary’s father returns. Å USA NCIS “Family” ’ Å Couples Therapy ’ Tough Love: New Orleans ’ Tough Love: New Orleans Dating in the digital age. Mob Wives Karen faces harsh critics. ’ Å VH1 Couples Therapy ’ CABLE NEWS The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant (N) The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant Mad Money CNBC The Kudlow Report (N) Supermarkets Inc: Inside a $500 Billion Piers Morgan Tonight (N) Anderson Cooper 360 Å Erin Burnett OutFront CNN Erin Burnett OutFront (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å Capitol Hill Hearings CSPAN House of Reps.

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