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IN BRIEF Rolling Stone’s Wood gets British police warning LONDON — A spokesman for Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood says he has been given a formal warning for assault. David Rigg said police gave Wood the formal warning or caution Tuesday after he was arrested earlier this month for assault near his home in Esher in southern England. Wood divorced last month. His marriage collapsed after he started dating a young Russian woman. A caution is a formal warning given by police. It is not a criminal conviction but police will keep a record of it for five years. Wood said in a statement that he is “greatly relieved this matter is resolved.” When asked about Wood, Surrey Police said that a 62-year-old man had been cautioned over a domestic incident. Police gave no other details.
Taylor Swift, Beyonce among Grammy performers NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Beyonce will perform at the Grammy Awards next month. The Recording Academy said Tuesday that other performers will include the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum and Maxwell. Beyonce has 10 Grammy nominations; Swift has eight. A stage-crashing Kanye West interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards to say Beyonce should have won for best female video instead. West later apologized. The Grammys will be presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 31. The show will air on CBS. The Recording Academy says additional performers will be announced at a later date. — Associated Press
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Annual party celebrates season with music The party’s on … the feeling’s here … that only comes one time a year… we’re simply having a wonderful Christmas time … To me, the words of this song are a fitting description of Christa Fair’s annual December parties. True enough, the parties reflect easygoing elegance to her guests, but there’s an equal measure of celebration and hard Hervey work in her giving the Folsom gift of an old-fashArtists in Action ioned Christmas at her Leighton Avenue home. Musicians are invited to sing and play instruments, colors are chosen for the theme, unique decorations are set out and the feast in the dining room becomes a display within itself. It’s a non-commercial Christmas celebration that makes the cares of the holiday rush slowly melt away. And on Dec. 20 — the 60th anniversary of the gathering — it was again standing-room-only in the front rooms when about 200 people experienced the feeling of good will during the holidays. “Christa’s party each year is the stuff from which nostalgic movies are made,” said Patricia Smith, a co-worker with Fair in the Knox Concert Series. “It’s the way Christmas ought to be, and it actually happens at Christa’s parties.” It was a picturesque gathering with people singing hymns and carols around the piano and everyone greeting each other. It was interesting to see how many shades of purple and lavender, the colors this year, adorned the guests’ attire. We felt the cold wind on our face as we stepped onto the spacious porch of the two-story home, where a preview of the musical night was heard by singer Christa Jane Morgan and her husband, saxophone player Jacob, from Jackson, Miss. Inside, there was laughter and song coming from two rooms, each with a piano, with people crowded around them. Deborah Stubbs started the night off with her Southern Gospel-style of playing, adding her touches of syncopation and full chords and runs. Throughout the evening others took their turn at the pianos, including Bill, Jenny and Laura Wall, Helen Henley, Betty Wingard, Jack Parris. Larry Kallus and myself also performed on violin. Caleb Clark, Davina Van Essen, Caylen McCall and Rachael Wall entertained with their singing.
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Janice Reaves, left, and Christa Fair at Fair’s annual Christmas party. Both pianos played have a history. In the living room, the ivory-colored piano matched the style of Fair’s French antique furniture; it was custom-made for Fair as a 14th wedding anniversary present. The piano in the back room was once owned by Tamae Carnes, founder of the Knox Concert Series. Popular carols from past parties were again in demand. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” was written in 1868 by Phillip Brooks, who later became Bishop of Massachusetts. In 1866 he stood on one of the hills of Palestine looking down on the village where Christ was born. Two years later he remembered that night and wrote the words to this gentle carol, and his friend John Redner set music to the song. “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” is truly a folk song and seemed especially right for this party, and “O Come, O Come Emanuel” is ancient in text and music. It is based on plainsong, which was used in church during The Middle Ages. And “Ave Maria,” written by Franz Schubert, has been heard here time and time again. There’s always been music in this house, Fair said. Choral music has been rising to the rafters since she’s been here. At Fair’s home, the number of guests coming gets larger each year, she said.
In fact, one night, as many as 300 people came, even when snow was in the forecast. And each year she has her May Musicales in coordination with the Knox Concert Series, a time when emerging and veteran talent is heard. The silver Christmas tree with amethyst-colored ornaments in the foyer cast its light through the figures of a nativity scene made by a New Orleans artist. His figures were made from stained glass windows from churches that had been demolished. The food included turkey and ham, dips and fruit, and an assortment of desserts. It was catered by Flora Mallard, who has been helping Fair with her parties since 1987. The hostesses were Brenda Hooks, Becky Morgan, Robin Hopkins, Raeanna Hopkins and Janice Reaves. We left with a glad song on our lips and a new sense of joy. It was a grand night for singing the reality of that Bethlehem night into our lives. Meanwhile, the children upstairs had imagined Santa’s sleigh getting nearer as the adults read stories. But there’s one more event that could help keep the excitement going — all we need now is a Twelfth Night party.
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Fitness games are reshaping medium By DERRIK J. LANG
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LOS ANGELES — At first glance, the rack of video games seems out of place next to the row of elliptical machines at The Sports Authority in Burbank, Calif. The nation’s largest sports retailer partnered with Nintendo last month to sell the popular Wii console and games. It’s another sign of the times: Video games aren’t just for shooting aliens anymore. “I actually came here looking for soccer equipment for my sons for Christmas, but this caught my eye,” said Celia Fernandez while browsing the sports- and fitness-themed Wii games at The Sports Authority. “We bought a Wii last year but don’t use it as much anymore, so I was thinking we might get them a new Wii game to go with their new soccer equipment.” Launched by Nintendo last year, the fitness game “Wii Fit” and the accompanying Wii Balance Board have bench-pressed the gaming world. Thanks to the Wii’s motion-controller and the scalelike balance board, exercise games — or exergames, as they’re known — have become a fully formed gaming genre, attracting scads of users who don’t normally play with joysticks. “With sales of over 8 million, it’s a sure bet that ‘Wii Fit’ has gone well beyond the traditional video game consumer in its reach,” said industry analyst Anita Frazier from research firm NPD Group. “I hear stories all the time from friends and colleagues about their sixty-, seventy- and even eighty-something parent, grandparent or aunt using ‘Wii Fit.”’ Several publishers are working up a sweat this holiday season in hopes of enticing similar consumers. Electronic Arts, THQ, Ubisoft and Majesco Entertainment have all unleashed their own exergames featuring an array of attention-grabbing gimmicks from digital cameras that scan users’ flabbiness to virtual trainers who urge players to “NEVER STOP MOVING.” The biggest competitor to “Wii Fit” is “EA Sports Active,” the gaming giant’s own fitness franchise launched earlier this year starring “The Best Life Diet” author and Oprah Winfrey personal trainer Bob Greene. The workout simulator comes with a resistance band and leg strap, which work in tandem with the motion-controller to track players’ movements.
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Actress and former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy works out with the fitness program, “Your Shape.” “Before I made this commitment to do this project with EA Sports, I’ll be honest, I was skeptical,” said Greene. “What kind of workout can you really get? I looked at what was already on the market at the time. To me, it was mostly just slow movements and relaxation, which is a great part of overall well-being, however, it didn’t actually challenge you.” Ubisoft is taking a handsfree approach to working out with “Your Shape,” which features former Playboy Playmate and celebrity mommy Jenny McCarthy. The game utilizes a digital camera plugged into the Wii which scans players’ bodies. Many of the “Your Shape” exercises can also incorporate real-life workout equipment, such as free weights and balance balls. Majesco’s “Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010” features the toughas-nails trainer from NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” which has spawned its own exergame published by THQ that can transform gamers into contestants from the popular reality weight-loss competition. Both titles utilize the Wii Balance Board and can schedule players’ fitness regimes.
Whether these exergames actually help players lose weight or build muscle mass have been called into question. According to a recently released study by the American Council on Exercise that measured calories burned using “Wii Fit,” the game’s simulated activities provided “a very, very mild workout” compared with their real-life counterparts. That hasn’t stopped exergames from experiencing healthy sales. “EA Sports Active” has sold nearly 1 million copies since it was released in May, according to the NPD Group. A beach-themed sequel, “EA Sports Active: More Workouts,” was released last month. The follow-up features a six-week fitness program, virtual watersport activities and 35 new exercises. Nintendo’s “Wii Fit” expansion, “Wii Fit Plus,” outsold its predecessor its first month of release, pumping out over 440,000 copies in October. With Nintendo rivals Microsoft and Sony slated to launch their own motioncontrollers for their respective Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles next year, the exergame genre may have only begun to hit its stride.
The idea that video games were recessionproof turned out to be a myth this year, leading to declining sales, shuttered studios and thousands of newly unemployed developers. Stalled fortunes also meant less risk-taking from game publishers, who released plenty of sequels and other titles based on proven formulas. But the news wasn’t all bad — at least for consumers — with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all cutting prices on their flagship consoles. 1. “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” (Sony, for the PlayStation 3): Like an interactive version of a classic Hollywood action movie, this globe-trotting treasure hunt delivers thrills, romance and more hairbreadth escapes than the entire Indiana Jones series. 2. “Assassin’s Creed II” (Ubisoft, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Renaissance Italy is the breathtaking setting for this intricate tale of conspiracy, murder and revenge. 3. “Dragon Age: Origins” (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Developer BioWare takes the elements of Tolkienesque high fantasy and recycles them into a gritty, sophisticated epic with plenty of surprising twists. 4. “Batman: Arkham Asylum” (Eidos, for the Xbox 360, PS3): The Caped Crusader gets trapped in Gotham’s nuthouse, where he has to endure the taunts and traps of The Joker. Cleverly designed challenges make this the best superhero game yet. 5. “inFamous” (Sony, for the PS3): The second best superhero game this year is the origin story of a guy named Cole who can control electricity. 6. “Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time” (Sony, for the PS3): Insomniac Games’ critter and robot pals are the most reliable characters in games (sorry, Mario), and their latest romp across the galaxies is as clever and colorful as ever. 7. “Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story” (Nintendo, for the DS): Mario did co-star in this lighthearted role-playing game, in which he and his brother explore the innards of their old foe, Bowser. It’s every bit as wacky as it sounds. 8. “Borderlands” (2K, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Gearbox combines the first-person shooter with role-playing elements in this addictive game. 9. “Forza Motorsport 3” (Microsoft, for the Xbox 360): Fans of hardcore racing simulations already love the “Forza” series, but developer Turn 10 has now made it easy for even the most inexperienced driver to take the wheel of a highperformance vehicle. 10. “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars” (Rockstar, for the DS, PlayStation Portable): Rockstar Games delivers a handheld chapter of its “GTA” crime saga that’s nearly as immersive as its console-based cousins.
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Susan Boyle hits a high holiday note By Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times
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Brian Setzer Orchestra rocks Christmas By Kelli Skye Fadroski The Orange County Register
It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a visit from Jolly St. Setzer and his mighty orchestra. Back for a seventh year, the Brian Setzer Orchestra returns with its Christmas Rocks! Extravaganza. The three-time Grammy-award winner, who was recently nominated in the best rock instrumental category for “Mr. Surfer Goes Jazzin’,” is excited to bring his big band orchestra to Los Angeles. He also says that after seven years of playing Christmas shows, he’s still nowhere near sick of it. “If people are going to come see me in that capacity, I’m still gonna want to do it,” Setzer said in a recent phone chat. He rocks seasonal favorites like “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Blue Christmas” and “Jingle Bell Rock” throughout the night, but Setzer says that the show isn’t entirely dedicated to the holiday and calls the shindig merely “Christmas-flavored.” He says the group also peppers in some of the tracks off its latest release, Songs from a Lonely Avenue, as well as a few classics from Setzer’s rockabilly band, the legendary Stray Cats. Since he’s covered so many Christmas standards, as well as inked a few of his own, which song does Setzer love to listen to the most this time of year? “My favorite one ...,” he thinks for a few seconds. “It’s by a really overlooked guy, Andy Williams. He’s had out some great Christmas records and from those I’m going to give you ... ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.’ That followed in close second by any Elvis Christmas songs because those were staples in my house, but
Andy’s song, it’s a very beautiful version.” As for his least favorite, Setzer seems to have no love for Santa’s sled leader. “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” he says with a disgusted tone. “I’ve tried with that one but I’m just not gonna sing about a deer.” With so many other songs to choose from, it’s doubtful anyone will notice that he left out poor Rudolph. Setzer is looking forward to trying out some of his new songs. Songs from a Lonely Avenue, which was released on Oct. 13, marks the very first time that Setzer alone has penned an entire album. The songs, he says, are inspired by classic film noir like Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, Arthur Ripley’s Thunder Road and the 1946 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep. “It’s mostly the crime-dramas and the mysteries,” he says. “I love all of the soundtracks (to those films) and that’s kind of where my head goes nowadays ... how to put music to a guy running down an alley. When you hear it done in those old movies it’s just classic.” Setzer started writing the album early last year but took a break when the band signed on for a tour of Japan and later he met up with the Stray Cats for some tour dates in Austria. “When that happened it derailed me because it was right in the middle of my creative process,” he says. “By the time I finally got home I was just sitting there with a tape recording and a notebook, but the light came right back on and there was little interruption. After I had finished the 13 songs I thought, ‘OK, I’m done. This is the story.’ I didn’t need to add anything else.”
What does Susan Boyle have in common with Taylor Swift, Josh Groban, Shania Twain and the Beatles? The unlikely British talent show runner-up-turnedpop megastar has delivered the perfect storm of a year-end album with her debut, I Dreamed a Dream, one that is showing signs of turning into 2009’s biggest seller. In doing so, she’s following the lead of other acts this decade in releasing fourth-quarter albums that became runaway hits by providing consumers with music that has cross-generational appeal — making it ideal for gift-giving — and that draws music fans who still favor CDs over downloads. “In the last six weeks of the year, if you can find the right kind of artist who appeals to the consumer who still purchases albums in great quantities, then you can hit that sort of sweet spot,” said Keith Caulfield, director of charts for Billboard. Last year, that was Taylor Swift’s then-new Fearless, which is still the top seller of 2009. Swift’s album has sold 2.7 million copies this year, while Boyle’s has piled up a three-week total of 1.8 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In the sales race, Boyle also trails Michael Jackson’s six-year-old Number Ones hits collection, which has sold 2.2 million copies this year. Boyle’s out-of-the-box success this season surprised some people in the music business, with firstweek sales of more than 700,000 copies spurred by tens of millions of YouTube hits for her appearances on Britain’s Got Talent, the U.K. version of American Idol. What’s even more eye-opening is how strong sales of her CD have remained, topping 500,000 in each of the two succeeding weeks.
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Blige delivers soulful album Mary J. Blige Stronger withEach Tear Mary J. Blige’s style — both musical and personal — has gradually evolved over her nearly 20-year career. The Grammy winner’s ninth studio album, Stronger withEach Tear, is the latest evidence of that evolution. The disc’s title track is an empowerment anthem, representative of recent chart-toppers that have given the long-hailed “Queen of Hip-hop Soul” mainstream appeal. “In each tear there’s a lesson/ makes you wiser than before/ makes you stronger than you know,” Blige belts over a steady, marching beat. Big buzz singer-rapper Drake joins the 38-year-old songstress on the uptempo single “The One,” and T.I. lends his Southern drawl
to the bouncy “Good Love.” Both songs are good, but “In the Morning” is great because the track features Blige tapping into her signature soulful sound. The same goes for the bluesy “I Can See in Color.” The gut-wrenching selection comes from the movie Precious, and is just one more example of Blige’s consistent ability to exude power even when she’s expressing pain. CHECK OUT THIS TRACK OUT: “All up in your fridge, and next will be the stove. Never let a girl cook in your kitchen,” Blige warns on The-Dream and C. “Tricky” Stewart-produced “Kitchen.” The track has an old-school sound that makes this advice sound like something grandma might say. — Melanie Sims, Associated Press
Marcus Johnson continues to please with 11th album Marcus Johnson Poetically Justified
As popular as he is prolific, keyboardist-composer Marcus Johnson sent out several invitations before recording his 11th CD. A smart move, too. Saxophonists Najee and Marcus Anderson contribute cameos, along with vocalists Maysa and Miles Jaye, who play a significant role in pushing some of the performances on Poetically Justified beyond the realm of radiofriendly instrumentals. Of course, longtime fans who appreciate Johnson’s flair for tweaking smooth jazz sounds won’t be disappointed by most of the offerings. Take, for example, “Chillaxin,” with its synth-triggered washes and percolating beats “Ellicott City,” a riffing, funk
bass-anchored track featuring saxophonist Phillip Martin or “Cherish the Journey,” a polished ballad that blends elements of pop and rock. The same goes for Johnson’s bright, groove-happy takes on the Jacksons’ “This Place Hotel” and the John Legend hit “Used to Love You.” As for the tunes showcasing the guest vocalists, they add plenty of lift to this 14-track collection. Jaye is in top form, especially on his self-penned ballad “Heaven,” the CD’s romantic pop closer, while Maysa charges “Hold On” with her customary mix of spirit, soul and personality. Kindred spirits: Joe Sample, Kim Waters, John Legend — Mike Joyce. The Washington Post
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Amy, Beyonce, Kanye, made decade’s best albums By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY Associated Press
The first decade of the new millennium produced some amazing albums, CDs that should go down with the best works of art. You might not find those albums on this list — which doesn’t mean this list isn’t the best of the decade. But for an album to make the cut, it had to be more than just something to appreciate and put on a shelf. It had to be something you couldn’t live without, that you had on your go-to playlist, that you listened to not just the year it came out ... but in the years since.
Best albums of the decade: 1. Denials, Delusions and Decisions, Jaguar Wright: Who? WHO? OK, OK, she’s not the best-known artist of the decade; she could win an award for most obscure. But this R&B singer-songwriter should have won top accolades for her amazing debut album, a raw, sometimes profane, yet brilliant collection of songs about a woman frustrated by love and life. This is a riveting CD that never leaves those who hear it. Too bad so few people had that experience with such a masterful album. 2. Confessions, Usher: If Usher is this generation’s Michael Jackson, this was his Thriller. Every song is good, and most of them are absolutely great tunes that paint a complex portrait of a man entangled in a relationship when his inner bachelor is trying to set him free. 3. Mama’s Gun, Erykah Badu: “Because I’m cleva, when I bust a rhyme,” Badu croons on one of the disc’s tracks, “Cleva.” But that could be a synopsis for this entire album, which grabs you as much by lyrics as it does by its musicality. 4. The College Dropout, Kanye West: The self-proclaimed “voice of the generation” first roared with his debut, changing the game of rap, from his production to his style. Just when rap was beginning to sag creatively, Kanye provided its biggest boost with this amazing concept album. Say what you want, but West is not only one of rap’s greatest, but music’s greatest as well. 5. Back to Black, Amy Winehouse: If Winehouse doesn’t get her act together, she may go down in history as a two-hit wonder best known for the song “Rehab,” that would come to define her disheveled life. But listening to this album, you forget about all that drama and get lost in her artistry — those sassy
lyrics, the retro-soul and the emotional depth in her voice. Here’s hoping we can get that Amy back in the next decade. 6. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 50 Cent: There’s nothing particularly deep about this album, but when you make songs this good, you know what? It’s OK. From “In Da Club” to “What Up Gangsta” to “P.I.M.P.,” 50’s debut was thoroughly riveting. 7. B’day, Beyonce: Beyonce could have chosen to make Dangerously in Love 2 for her sophomore debut. Instead, she took a musical risk by trying out different sonic styles, from the futuristic funk of “Green Light” to the acoustic brilliance of “Irreplaceable.” With B’day Beyonce established herself not only as this decade’s most important hitmaker, but also established her artistic heft. 8. Testimony: Vol 1. Life and Relationship, India.Arie: Being eternally positive has often been a negative in India. Arie’s career — sometimes people want to wallow in grief with music that mirrors their mood and not be told to look at the silver lining. For that reason, she’s often been ignored and derided, but those who choose to embrace the light are always rewarded, and on “Testimony,” India finds a way to turn heartbreak into lyrics filled with wisdom, optimism and grace — something we should all celebrate. 9. The Chocolate Factory, R. Kelly: In the middle of a child porn scandal (of which he would eventually be cleared), R. Kelly decided to write with his heart in mind, and not that other body part that usually dictates his music, and delivered the best album of his career, with touching love songs and bluesy heartbreak ballads. Sure, there was the obligatory sex-equals-machinery song with “Ignition,” but this album took Kelly to a level we wish he had been able to sustain. 10. The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem: This is Eminem’s greatest album, where his demented genius is at its apex, with songs such as “Stan” and “The Way I Am.” Here, we get more of a sense of who Marshall Mathers is before the caricature of Eminem took over completely, and his image became cartoonish and garish. On this album, Eminem is a conduit to warped young Americans whose voices were silent — until Mathers came along.
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alvin and the chipmunks: the squeakuel H Rating: PG for some mild rude humor Running time: 1:28 STARRING: Jason Lee and the voices of Justin Long, Anna Faris, Amy Poehler and Christina Applegate
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George Clooney portrays Ryan Bingham in a scene from ‘Up in the Air.’
Clooney’s ‘Up in the Air’ flies true up in the air H H H Rating: R for language and some sexual content Running time: 1:49 STARRING: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
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On rare occasions, putting a novel through the Hollywood wringer does the story a real service. The rather whiny tone of Walter Kirn’s Up in the Air vanishes in Jason Reitman’s extreme makeover of this travelogue comedy about a guy who traipses across America, firing people for a living while greedily counting the miles built up in his frequent-flyer program. Gone is the book’s fickle, possibly amnesiac, definitely disturbed main character, replaced by a lovably overconfident road-trip warrior, a dynamo played to perfection by George Clooney. Gone or transformed are many of Kirn’s fly-by-night bit players, swapped out for strong supporting figures led by Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. And mostly gone is the self-absorbed narrowness of Kirn’s story, a one-man show for which Reitman has substituted an expansive, very relevant tale of corporate downsizing and the people suffering through it. For two-thirds of the journey, Up in the Air flies even straighter and truer than director Reitman’s 2007 teenpregnancy hit, Juno, delivering snappy screwball dialogue with deep touches of pathos. The film strays off course in the final act, though, veering from an insightful portrait of willful disconnection in our age of portability and turning kind of mushy, kind of vague, kind of conventional.
People change, lessons are learned, but the movie ends up landing on familiar turf rather than the bold, exotic location where it seemed bound early on. Reitman, who shares screenwriting credit with Sheldon Turner, jettisons the hazy meandering of Kirn’s protagonist, who’s grown weary of his traveling ways and is looking for an out. Instead, Clooney’s Ryan Bingham lives for the life of airports, rented cars and executive suites. He expertly maneuvers from hub to hub, staying only long enough to pass out pink slips and offer a semblance of career-transition counseling to the people he fires for downsizing companies whose bosses are too spineless to do the nasty deeds themselves. Ryan’s main goal is to reach the 10 million-mile plateau on his frequent-flyer account, an aspiration jeopardized when his own firm decides to implement a program of firing people by teleconference, so they never have to leave the home office. Just as Ryan meets his goddess of the skies, frequentflyer soulmate Alex (Farmiga), his company dispatches him with straight-out-of-school efficiency expert Natalie (Kendrick) to test the firing-from-a-distance technology that threatens to ground him for good. Up in the Air peaks too soon, with a marvelous exchange in an anonymous airport as Ryan, Alex and Natalie debate and dissect one another’s values with grand humor but incisorlike ferocity. From there, the movie descends to a safer altitude, offering up a big, though somewhat contrived, dramatic twist as Ryan reconnects with his family and begins to question the worthiness of his rambling.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel is a kids comedy that screams “Direct to DVD.” It doesn’t help that it screams that in high, squeaky, three-part harmony. Whatever slim charms there were in the nostalgic, musically cute and slapstick-friendly first film of chipmunk mania are squished right out of The Squeakuel like so much rodent roadkill. The cast is cut-rate and the script needed a serious visit from a serious gag writer. Apparently, Fox blew the budget on tunes. Songs from Beyonce and Katy Perry to the Bee Gees and The Kinks are amusingly covered by competing bands of harmonizing forest fauna. Alvin, Simon and Theodore take a step back from fame to go to West Eastman High School, where they cope with bullies, girls, budget cuts to the school music program and Alvin’s (voiced by Justin Long) egomania. They do it all without their “Dad,” David Seville (Jason Lee, wisely opting to do his few scenes in traction in a hospital room). So Dave’s irresponsible, video-game addict cousin Toby (Zachary Levi) is put in charge. There must be rules for playing the human straight man or woman in talking-critter movies. Rule one has to be “Don’t make the audience feel sorry for you for taking the part.” Whatever charms network executives saw in Levi (TV’s Chuck and Less Than Perfect), he hasn’t the charisma to fill even a small fraction of the big screen. He doesn’t try. Levi didn’t phone this in — he texted. A Destiny’s Child-inspired counter-group, The Chipettes — managed by the Chipmunks’ old agentnemesis, Ian (David Cross) — shows up to shake their money makers, tempt the boys and sing “(Single Ladies) Put a Ring on It” and other recent girlgroup hits. The film credits Anna Faris, Amy Poehler and Christina Applegate with doing their voices, but who can verify that? The script — Jon Vitti, Jonathan Abel and Glenn Berger will be deleting this from their resumes — has one laugh in it. One. If you don’t know what “Dutch Oven!” means in relation to flatulence, ask your kids.
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The true story of a young, homeless African-American boy taken in by a well-to-do white family to discover his potential as a student and a football player. Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Lily Collins and Jae Head. Written and directed by John Lee Hancock. the twilight saga: new moon
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Comedy about Ryan Bingham, a guy who traipses across America, firing people for a living while greedily counting the miles built up in his frequent-flyer program. With George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Based on the novel by Walter Kirn. Directed by Jason Reitman. old dogs
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Two best friends, an unlucky-inlove divorcee and a fun-loving bachelor, are unexpectedly charged with the care of 6-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. With John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Seth Green, Ella Bleu Travolta, Lori Loughlin and Matt Dillon. Written by David Diamond and David Weissman. Directed by Walt Becker. Rating: H poor, HH fair, HHH
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9 The film, Shane Acker’s feature-length telling of his Oscar-nominated student short, will expose the animator’s talents to a much wider world. Nine burlapped Beowulfian Bravehearts — Acker dubs them “stitchpunk” dolls — individually represent parts of their late ScientistCreator’s soul. Humanity has been wiped out by the rise (and rage) of the machines, so these small dolls, each possessing a distinct personality, must band together to try to conquer a Cat Beast and a Winged Beast, among other fiercely clattering creatures. But for all its talk of preserving the human soul, it’s too busy dodging creaking machines to pause and let us feel any real depth of connection among the plucky stitchpunkers. Contains violence and scary images.
Jennifer’s Body Megan Fox makes a subversive plaything of her smokin’ hottie persona as Jennifer Check, a high school Queen Bee who, after an ugly encounter with a van full of rock musicians, becomes a raging succubus with a taste for Type B (Boy) blood. Amanda Seyfried plays Jennifer’s bookish pal, who twigs to her BFF’s psychoweirdness and could very well pay for that insight with her life. The movie, written by Diablo Cody (Juno), introduces a little rrriot grrrl-y feminism to a genre that for too long has been predicated on female
victimization. And director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) handles the structural imperatives with solid timing and occasional panache. Contains sexuality, bloody violence, profanity and brief drug use.
Paranormal Activity This genuinely chilling, low-budget indie — shot back in 2006 by first-time filmmaker Oren Peli — tells the story of a demonic force plaguing a young couple within the claustrophobic walls of their sparsely furnished San Diego home. “You can’t run from this,” a psychic tells Katie (Katie Featherston), who has been haunted by eerie disturbances since childhood. Katie’s gadget-obsessed boyfriend, Micah (Micah Sloat), responds by setting up a video camera to document what happens each night when they tuck into bed. At first, little registers. Then, things start to get really freaky. Peli relies largely on purposely amateurish and dimly lit bedroom scenes to form the mundane-but-eventually-disturbing core of the movie. Its suspense is the sort that lurks in shadows, making our eyes play tricks and our ears hear unidentified bumps — or thuds — in the night. Contains offensive language.
Jovovich) have gone on their honeymoon. They’ve left behind the Big Island and headed for Kauai, to backpack through the lush undergrowth in search of remote beaches. However, upon arriving, they hear the story about honeymooners being murdered by a couple back in Honolulu. Then they meet Gina (Kiele Sanchez) and Nick (Timothy Olyphant), who has a titanium plate in his head, a crazed look in his eye and a sufficient number of Iraq war stories to curl one’s hair. They’ve also just come from Honolulu. As the couples do their psychological dance and the viewer tries to figure out just exactly where in the wide, wide world of steamy tropical paradise this all is going, the spasms of fear multiply exponentially. Contains violence, vulgarity, sexual content and drug use. Also: Carriers, Facing Ali, Glee, Vol. One: Road to Sectionals and United States of Tara: Season One. — The Washington Post
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Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin and Lake Bell are shown in a scene from ‘It’s Complicated.’
Love is simple-minded in ‘It’s Complicated’ it’s complicated H H Rating: R for drug content and sexuality Running time: 1:58 STARRING: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Lake Bell
Associated Press It’s Complicated is lying from the moment the title appears. Writer-director Nancy Meyers’ latest relationship comedy isn’t what the name promises at all. It’s simple, almost as simple about grown-up romance and heartache as the average Hollywood teen comedy is about youthful love and sex. That said, a simple-minded story can benefit enormously with Meryl Streep on screen for almost an entire movie. Streep deals a charming performance as a divorced woman in an affair with her remarried ex-husband (Alec Baldwin) and a flirtation with a new man (Steve Martin). It’s got to be hard work to bring authenticity to a character as potentially artificial and shallow as Streep’s Jane Adler. Streep makes everything look effortless and real these days, singing, dancing single mom in Mamma Mia! over the summer, stern, inflexible nun in Doubt come winter. Too bad Streep has to put on this nice show to such superficial effect in It’s Com-
plicated, and for that matter, too bad for Baldwin, Martin and the rest of an earnest supporting cast led by John Krasinski. Meyers serves up fluff as light as the pastries Jane bakes for a living, a story to make divorced people wish their broken marriages and the ugly aftermath could be as fun and frolicsome as this. Ten years after Jake (Baldwin) left her, Jane has reached an uneasy peace with her ex, who’s now married to a younger woman (Lake Bell). Jane and Jake find themselves alone over dinner and many drinks at a hotel in New York City, where they and the rest of family have gathered for their son’s college graduation. Sparks are rekindled, a rash one-nighter leads to an affair, and Jane finds herself wooed by Jake, who’s dissatisfied with the new wife and wants the old one back. Even with Streep and Baldwin’s drunken-debauchery scene, the first half of the movie is deadly dull. The big laughs Meyers swings for never pay off the way she wants, and the three-way romance totters to an uninteresting conclusion that lacks anything approaching the heart of how her love triangle wrapped up in Something’s Gotta Give. The story’s not entirely predictable. Yet it’s anything but complicated.
Take it from a lifelong fan of Arthur Conan Doyle: Robert Downey Jr. is so NOT Sherlock Holmes. That’s not a hindrance — in fact, it’s a big help — as he and director Guy Ritchie bring Conan Doyle’s dusty Victorianage detective into the modern world. Enough of the trappings are left in their action romp Sherlock Holmes — the lightning-fast cerebrations, the encyclopedic knowledge of London, the compulsive single-mindedness, the vain one-upmanship — to make Downey a reasonably faithful embodiment of the figure Conan Doyle created. And of course, this is Downey, whose career resurgence rests on his ability to make the most unlikely role his own. He doesn’t look like the classic Holmes, he plays the man as a scamp, he’s after laughs as much as lawbreakers. But Downey does a great Brit, he lives large in the part, and he brings a human spark to cold egghead Holmes that will help pack in huge audiences for a character on the fringes since the Basil Rathbone days. Revisionists have done a number on Holmes before — he was psycho-
analyzed by Sigmund Freud in The Seven-PerCent Solution and spoofed by Gene Wilder in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother. So why shouldn’t Ritchie put his Londonrogues-and-rascals spin on Holmes and cast the detective into a brawn-overbrain action epic? After all, Conan Doyle’s Holmes tales could be action riproarers. The failing of Ritchie is the drab plot they built around Holmes, an uninspired tale of a secret society and potentially supernatural doings. It’s nonsense, a dumb Hollywood treatment that’s beneath Holmes but
is made watchable, even exhilarating at times, by clever chases and scuffles, a superb recreation of old London in its splendor and squalor, and the amiable interplay of the actors. Jude Law heads the supporting cast as Holmes’ colleague, Watson, less a loyal sidekick in Ritchie’s creation than an odd-couple roomie in a bickeringbuddy bromance. Ravishing in every scene, Rachel McAdams was born to wear the sort of velvety, frilly Victorian garb she dons as Irene Adler, a cunning foil to Holmes as well as his romantic interest, the most-extreme revision by Ritchie and company.
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Sick of holiday movies? Here’s a list of alternatives By Jen Chaney The Washington Post
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Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert and Rachel McAdams star in 2004’s ‘Mean Girls.’ season. The Apartment: Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning 1960 masterpiece about a Mr. Nice Guy (Jack Lemmon) who loans his apartment to philandering executives takes place during the holiday season, delivering scenes of boisterous office parties, a matter of Christmas Eve life-or-death for our
leading lady (Shirley MacLaine) and a rewarding New Year’s Eve epiphany. Almost five decades later, The Apartment remains a smart, insightful and thoroughly satisfying comedy with the courage to show us what so many modern yuletide romances don’t: the aching loneliness brought on by the season of
he and this film raise about our overconsuming culture are more relevant than ever. Mean Girls: A candy canegram snub and an inappropriately provocative “Jingle Bell Rock” routine are what finally begin to break down the bonds between the vacuous, popular Plastics in this clever dissection of teen-girl power politics. A good choice for those who want to inject some high-school comedy into their holiday-viewing mix, or just want to remember a time when Lindsay Lohan was known for her talent instead of her celebrity status. The Last Picture Show: In Peter Bogdanovich’s black-andwhite portrait of life in a small Texas town during the 1950s, a Christmas party practically seals the fates of the main characters. That’s where it becomes clear that young Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) will embark on a longterm affair with an older woman (Cloris Leachman) and that it’s only a matter of time until socialclimbing Jacy (Cybill Shepherd) ruptures a few hearts. Ho, ho, ho, indeed.
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This list of unconventional holiday movies provides alternatives to the usual Christmas Story/It’s a Wonderful Life/Elf movie marathons that have become our national Christmascinema default setting. Each of the following selections takes place during the holiday season or includes at least one crucial yuletide scene, and all are available on DVD and/or Blu-ray. Toy Story: If you live in a house with young children, what is Christmas Day, really, but a story about toys? (Or at least a story about mom and dad assembling toys.) Pixar’s first picture — and the one that introduced us to Woody and Buzz Lightyear, a Butch and Sundance for the digital-animation generation — is still a delight almost 15 years since its debut. And the fact that it closes on Christmas morning, when young Andy, his family and his cadre of Mr. Potato Heads and Bo Peeps have settled cozily into a new house, makes it perfect family fare for the holiday
mistletoe kisses. Lethal Weapon: A gun battle on a Christmas tree lot. A guy who takes a bullet in the chest, and in his carton of egg nog. Mel Gibson in a mullet. If all of these things say Christmas to you, then this 1987 action smash — which opens with a round of “Jingle Bell Rock” and, in a bit of additional seasonal trivia, features holiday songstress Darlene Love in the role of Danny Glover’s wife — will provide just the right fala-la jolt. What Would Jesus Buy?: We all know that Christmas is far too commercial. I mean, Charlie Brown told us that years ago. Yet most of us continue to play the same put-that-reindeer-onmy-credit-card games every year, spending money on gifts that our loved ones don’t really want or need. This 2007 documentary follows one man — Bill Talen, aka the Reverend Billy — who takes the members of his “Church of Stop Shopping” on the road during the holiday season in an effort to make us knock it off. Talen’s tactics may be a little loony, but the issues
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Jerome Crawford When: 9:30 p.m. Where: The Peerless Saloon, 13 W. 10th St., Anniston How much: $3 Contact: 237-1899
Wayne Reaves and the Heartbreakers When: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Where: Golden Saw Music Hall, Williams Community, Jacksonville How much: Free Contact: 435-4696 Buddy Wayne When: 7 p.m. What: Classic country, classic rock Where: American Legion Post 26, 515 E. 18th St., Anniston How much: Free and open to the public Contact: 236-9314
Jeff Hicks and Dave Terrel When: 9:30 p.m. Where: Peerless Saloon, 13 W. 10th St., Anniston How much: $3 Contact: 237-1899
Jonathan East and Crossroads What: Country, southern rock, classic rock When: 9:30 p.m. Where: Bama Cowboy Saloon and Steakhouse, 1503 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston How much: $3, women free Contact: 835-7735
Southern Nites When: 8:30 p.m. Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. 431, Anniston How much: $4 Contact: 238-8047
The Honky Tonk Rangers What: Country, rock, blues When: 8:30 p.m. Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. 431, Anniston How much: $4 Contact: 238-8047
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exhibits Smalls What: Featuring works on paper 8-by10 inches and smaller, including prints, photo transfers, paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, mixed media works and digital prints When: Through Jan. 17. Gallery is open Fridays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and by appointment Where: Studio9, 9 Public Square E (next
to Crow Drugs), Jacksonville How much: Free to attend, items priced as marked Contact: 689-8573 or 239-3012 Reptiles: The Beautiful and the Dangerous What: Live reptiles, wildlife photography, educational panels and more When: Through Jan. 10. Museum hours
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are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m. Where: Berman Museum of World History, 840 Museum Drive, Anniston How much: $5 for adults, $4.50 for seniors, $4 for children 4-17, children 3 and under free Contact: 237-6261 or www.bermanmuseum.org
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Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows By RYAN NAKASHIMA Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that The Bannen Way, a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly if it could be made at all. Yet budding filmmakers Jesse Warren and Mark Gantt managed to hire 40-odd staff, including a boom operator, camerapeople — yes, more than one — and even production assistants on hand to offer sunscreen and sandwiches. The production had actors familiar to some TV and movie audiences, including Michael Ironside, Robert Forster and Vanessa Marcil. The secret to their success? Treat the Internet run like a TV or movie release, which often loses money on its on-screen debut, but can make healthy profits when issued on DVD or Blu-ray and later sold for reruns on cable or overseas. With that in mind, major movie studios are now getting behind such productions, giving them a lift in budgets and quality — a far cry from the shaky camerawork and dubious special effects prevalent when Web video became a new phenomenon a few years ago. For Warren and Gantt, who wrapped up shooting in October, a snazzy trailer they produced helped snag Sony Pictures Television as a partner. “We came up with this idea,” said Warren, 31. “There’s no limit to how many episodes there can be in a Web series. So why don’t we design it as a (feature-length movie) so we can sell it as a DVD feature at the end?” Sony executives, it turns out, had the same idea. The studio picked up the project in April and gave it a budget of around $1 million. That’s nowhere near the $30 million-plus budgets of many Hollywood movies, but more than the producers were told they could sell it for. Web sites typically pay up to $5,000 for a short clip of original video; with 16 episodes, other Web sites might have paid around $100,000 for The Bannen Way. “This money buys more lights and more production value,” said Gantt, 40. One quirk of the Web is that each episode must have a cliffhanger to keep online viewers coming back. In one scene, the audience learns for the first time that
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Actors Mark Gantt and co-star Vanessa Marcil star in a new Web movie series ‘The Bannen Way.’ Neal Bannen, the title character, had been working for his mob boss uncle. Bannen’s father is the chief of police, and viewers realize the son is about to be entangled in a cops-and-robbers struggle between father and uncle. “It moves pretty well,” Warren says, snapping his fingers. “We had breaks that would naturally lend itself to the Web.” Sony Pictures Television hopes the release will gain buzz and a few advertising dollars when it begins to debut in increments in January on the Sony-owned Crackle.com, a site targeted at males aged 18-34. Then, it will stop running for free online and get repackaged for sale to TV outlets, on iTunes and elsewhere. Although the main goal is to drive traffic to Crackle.com, which Sony Corp. acquired when it was called Grouper for nearly $60 million in 2006, made-for-Web productions are expected to make a profit by themselves. Thus, studios scrutinize projects before approving them and committing funding — green-lighting in industry speak. In this case, studio input during the production was also part of the process. “We go through a very similar greenlight process as we would for any piece of content in the studio,” said Eric Berger, senior vice president of digital networks for Sony Pictures Television, which is planning to make 15 Web productions annually. “How and why we make them and where we will make money is conceived with every project.” Yet for every Web series that is made
with a modest budget and high-profile directors such as The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz — who made Rockville CA for The WB’s site — there are about 20 made independently on a shoestring, BrimDeForest said. In October, Michael Eisner’s Web production startup Vuguru got a multimillion-dollar capital injection from a unit of Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc. in a deal that gives Rogers the right to use Vuguru content on television, the Web or even its rental video stores in Canada. Rogers’ minority investment will ensure Vuguru can ramp up its production to some 15 projects a year, compared with a half dozen over the last two years combined, said Andy Redman, chief operating officer of The Tornante Company LLC, which owns a majority of Vuguru. The plan is to boost the staff to 30 in a few years, up from two people who currently work on Web projects full-time, he said. Redman compared the growth of the new platform to cable television in the 1980s, when networks like ESPN, CNN and MTV were just getting going, reaching focused audiences at first and then growing. Today, cable networks like AMC put on some of the most critically acclaimed series on TV, such as its Emmy-winning Mad Men, and have largely cast off their reputation as being a receptacle for reruns or shows that failed on broadcast TV. “It was the platform to be joked about,” he said. “Five years later, they’ve realized this whole new medium passed me by.”
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The many faces of Holmes
Los Angeles Times
HOLLYWOOD — Sherlock Holmes, the latest incarnation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s analytical, coke-loving sleuth, opens Christmas Day, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the Baker Street detective and Jude Law as Watson, his cohort in crime-solving. So it’s elementary that the game is afoot to pay homage to previous cinematic Holmeses. Lionsgate is releasing the DVD of the 1979 thriller Murder by Decree, with Christopher Plummer and James Mason as the sleuthing duo. From Dec. 18 through 31, the Paley Center for Media Studies in Beverly Hills is presenting The Blue Carbuncle, a yuletide episode of the respected 1984-94 PBS series Mystery!: Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett. Finally, Turner Classic Movies is celebrating Christmas with its Holmes for the Holidays programming, which features 17 Holmes mysteries, including 13 starring Rathbone and Bruce. Rathbone and Bruce began their stint as Holmes and Watson in 1939 when 20th Century Fox produced two handsome thrillers, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Three years later, the series moved to Universal, where the studio took the sleuths out of the Victorian era and put them in the middle of World War II and the Nazis. Although Conan Doyle purists generally don’t approve of these updated Holmes mysteries, they are still a lot of fun thanks to the chemistry between Rathbone and Bruce and the taut direction of Roy William Neill, who helmed the majority of these low-budget Universal productions. “You have got to love Neill’s lighting and his atmosphere in the films,” says Jan-Christopher Horak, head of the University of California, Los Angeles, archive. “They didn’t spend a huge amount of time on them, but they look great.” Baby-boomer Horak grew up watching these movies. “To me, Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes,” he says. “It was a real career-changing move for Rathbone. He had played mostly villains before that time, but he had the perfect personality to be this slightly acidic, always ironic, articulate, bon-mots-at-the-tip-of-his-tongue-while-hewas-sleuthing character.” Says UCLA preservation officer Robert Gitt, who restored the Universal series: “What is interesting is, at the time they were making these films, Rathbone and
Here are some other actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes on TV and film: n Tom Baker: 1982 miniseries The Hound of the Baskervilles. n John Barrymore: 1922’s Sherlock Holmes. n Michael Caine: 1988’s Without a Clue. n Peter Cushing: 1959’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, among others. n William Gillette: 1916’s Sherlock Holmes. n Charlton Heston: 1991’s The Crucifer of Blood. n Ronald Howard: 1954-55 TV series Sherlock Holmes. n Frank Langella: 1981’s Sherlock Holmes. n Christopher Lee: 1962’s Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, among others. n Raymond Massey: 1931’s The Speckled Band. n Roger Moore: 1976’s Sherlock Holmes in New York. n John Neville: 1965’s A Study in Terror. n Edward Woodward: 1990’s Hands of a Murderer.
Special to The Star
ABOVE: Jude Law as Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ which opens Friday. RIGHT: Robert Downey Jr. as the latest incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. Bruce were also appearing in a radio series, and those were set in the original time period. They came to an end in 1946. Roy William Neill died around the same time the contracts for the radio show were over, and Rathbone wanted to get away from it.” Rathbone had nothing on Ellie Norwood. “He was the actor who played Sherlock Holmes the most,” Horak says of Norwood. “He made something like 30 Sherlock Holmes films in the 1920s in England. He started with a serial in 1921 and then was cranking out six or seven or eight films a year.” The German cinema also embraced Holmes. “Germans loved Conan Doyle and Sherlock,” Horak
says. “There was a whole run of German films back in the teens. They even made a couple during the Nazi period. The French (also) made a respectable number of Sherlock films.” Writer-director Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) is one Holmes purist who rarely has liked the cinematic versions. In the 1970s, he wrote three Holmes novels that were true to the Conan Doyle canon: The West End Horror, The Canary Trainer and The Seven-PerCent-Solution. Meyer adapted the latter for the 1976 film version starring Nicol Williamson as Holmes. “I suppose I rather like Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,” Meyer says, referring to the 1970
romantic thriller starring Robert Stephens. “I think it’s such an uncharacteristic film for a cynic like Wilder. I think it has this Viennese melancholy romanticism along with his wit.” But for the most part, Meyer says, “When Hollywood tackles Holmes, I think they paint with a very broad and rather insensitive brush. Watson is always portrayed as an idiot, and I never understand why a genius needs to hang out with a buffoon.” With his novels, Meyer says, “I was really sort of intent on putting the needle back in the groove of the record where I thought it was suppose to be. Watson is an average man. I didn’t want to take them out of the time period. And I wasn’t afraid of but rather intrigued by Holmes’ drug addiction.” So what does he think of the film version of Seven PerCent Solution? “I think it’s a pretty good movie,” Meyer says. “I am sort of troubled with my screenplay, which seems too wordy. It may be wordy, but at least they are smart words.”
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Downey and Law recreate classic roles in ‘Sherlock Holmes’ By Susan King
The many faces of Holmes
Los Angeles Times
HOLLYWOOD — Sherlock Holmes, the latest incarnation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s analytical, coke-loving sleuth, opens Christmas Day, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the Baker Street detective and Jude Law as Watson, his cohort in crime-solving. So it’s elementary that the game is afoot to pay homage to previous cinematic Holmeses. Lionsgate is releasing the DVD of the 1979 thriller Murder by Decree, with Christopher Plummer and James Mason as the sleuthing duo. From Dec. 18 through 31, the Paley Center for Media Studies in Beverly Hills is presenting The Blue Carbuncle, a yuletide episode of the respected 1984-94 PBS series Mystery!: Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett. Finally, Turner Classic Movies is celebrating Christmas with its Holmes for the Holidays programming, which features 17 Holmes mysteries, including 13 starring Rathbone and Bruce. Rathbone and Bruce began their stint as Holmes and Watson in 1939 when 20th Century Fox produced two handsome thrillers, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Three years later, the series moved to Universal, where the studio took the sleuths out of the Victorian era and put them in the middle of World War II and the Nazis. Although Conan Doyle purists generally don’t approve of these updated Holmes mysteries, they are still a lot of fun thanks to the chemistry between Rathbone and Bruce and the taut direction of Roy William Neill, who helmed the majority of these low-budget Universal productions. “You have got to love Neill’s lighting and his atmosphere in the films,” says Jan-Christopher Horak, head of the University of California, Los Angeles, archive. “They didn’t spend a huge amount of time on them, but they look great.” Baby-boomer Horak grew up watching these movies. “To me, Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes,” he says. “It was a real career-changing move for Rathbone. He had played mostly villains before that time, but he had the perfect personality to be this slightly acidic, always ironic, articulate, bon-mots-at-the-tip-of-his-tongue-while-hewas-sleuthing character.” Says UCLA preservation officer Robert Gitt, who restored the Universal series: “What is interesting is, at the time they were making these films, Rathbone and
Here are some other actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes on TV and film: n Tom Baker: 1982 miniseries The Hound of the Baskervilles. n John Barrymore: 1922’s Sherlock Holmes. n Michael Caine: 1988’s Without a Clue. n Peter Cushing: 1959’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, among others. n William Gillette: 1916’s Sherlock Holmes. n Charlton Heston: 1991’s The Crucifer of Blood. n Ronald Howard: 1954-55 TV series Sherlock Holmes. n Frank Langella: 1981’s Sherlock Holmes. n Christopher Lee: 1962’s Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, among others. n Raymond Massey: 1931’s The Speckled Band. n Roger Moore: 1976’s Sherlock Holmes in New York. n John Neville: 1965’s A Study in Terror. n Edward Woodward: 1990’s Hands of a Murderer.
Special to The Star
ABOVE: Jude Law as Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ which opens Friday. RIGHT: Robert Downey Jr. as the latest incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. Bruce were also appearing in a radio series, and those were set in the original time period. They came to an end in 1946. Roy William Neill died around the same time the contracts for the radio show were over, and Rathbone wanted to get away from it.” Rathbone had nothing on Ellie Norwood. “He was the actor who played Sherlock Holmes the most,” Horak says of Norwood. “He made something like 30 Sherlock Holmes films in the 1920s in England. He started with a serial in 1921 and then was cranking out six or seven or eight films a year.” The German cinema also embraced Holmes. “Germans loved Conan Doyle and Sherlock,” Horak
says. “There was a whole run of German films back in the teens. They even made a couple during the Nazi period. The French (also) made a respectable number of Sherlock films.” Writer-director Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) is one Holmes purist who rarely has liked the cinematic versions. In the 1970s, he wrote three Holmes novels that were true to the Conan Doyle canon: The West End Horror, The Canary Trainer and The Seven-PerCent-Solution. Meyer adapted the latter for the 1976 film version starring Nicol Williamson as Holmes. “I suppose I rather like Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,” Meyer says, referring to the 1970
romantic thriller starring Robert Stephens. “I think it’s such an uncharacteristic film for a cynic like Wilder. I think it has this Viennese melancholy romanticism along with his wit.” But for the most part, Meyer says, “When Hollywood tackles Holmes, I think they paint with a very broad and rather insensitive brush. Watson is always portrayed as an idiot, and I never understand why a genius needs to hang out with a buffoon.” With his novels, Meyer says, “I was really sort of intent on putting the needle back in the groove of the record where I thought it was suppose to be. Watson is an average man. I didn’t want to take them out of the time period. And I wasn’t afraid of but rather intrigued by Holmes’ drug addiction.” So what does he think of the film version of Seven PerCent Solution? “I think it’s a pretty good movie,” Meyer says. “I am sort of troubled with my screenplay, which seems too wordy. It may be wordy, but at least they are smart words.”
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Å A Panda Is Born Å A Lion Called Christian Animal Cops Animal Cops The Haunted ’ Å The Haunted ’ Å The Haunted ’ Å Weird Weird Cats 101 ANPL It’s Me or the Dog ’ You Eat How Clean Gordon-F Word Ramsay’s Kitchen Kitchen Nightmares ’ Top Gear Å Doctor Who ’ Å BBC The Hotel Inspector ’ How Clean How Clean You Are What You Eat You Eat BET Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Jamie F. Shatner Shatner Female Forces Å Homicide Homicide Kids Behind Bars Å School Ambush Daughter Dearest Å The Runaways Å The Unexplained Å Unexplained Mysteries Mysteries BIO Launch My Line Launch My Line Tabatha’s Salon Take Tabatha’s Salon Take Real Housewives OC Real Housewives OC Real Housewives OC Real Housewives OC Housewiv. BRAVO Launch My Line Top 20 Countdown Top videos of 2009. ’ Terry Fator, Las Vegas Bill Engvall Just for Laughs Comedy Comedy Comedy Comedy Terry Fator, Las Vegas PoliceAcd CMTV Music Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ › “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” ››› “Bowfinger” (1999, Comedy) Steve Martin. Å “Blue Collar” COMEDY › “Sorority Boys” (2002) Barry Watson. Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å Dirty Jobs ’ Å Dirty Jobs ’ Å Dirty Jobs ’ Å Dirty Jobs DISC Overhaulin’ ’ Å Imag. Handy Phineas Phineas ››› “Meet the Robinsons” (2007) Phineas and Ferb ’ Å Phineas Phineas Phineas Suite Life- Suite Life- Suite Life- Suite Life- Suite Life- Suite Life- ›› “Sky DISN Movers Manny ’ and Ferb and Ferb Voices of Angela Bassett. ‘G’ and Ferb and Ferb and Ferb Deck Deck Deck Deck Deck Deck High” ‘PG’ The Soup Forbes Bank of Hollywood Jonas Brothers Kardashian Kardas Hotties › “The Sweetest Thing” (2002) Cameron Diaz. 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Battle Dinner: Impossible Iron Chef America Moments Cuisine FOOD Minute ●Sport Science Top 50 Bowl Showcase Update Air Racing Replay Game 365 NFL Play Best Damn 50 Basketball FOXSS ShipShape Outdoors ●Sport Science ›› “Firehouse Dog” (2007) Josh Hutcherson. ›› “Snow Day” (2000, Comedy) Chris Elliott. ››› “Superman Returns” (2006) Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth. ››› “Spider-Man 2” (2004, Action) Tobey Maguire. FX ››› “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” (1947) Å ››› “Cocoon” (1985) Don Ameche. Å › “The Boy in Blue” (1986) Nicolas Cage. Å ›› “Terror on the 40th Floor” (1974) FXM ›› “Prince of Players” (1955) Fam. Feud Newlywed Catch 21 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal Å Deal or No Deal Å Fam Feud Fam Feud Newlywed Catch 21 Be a Millionaire 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal No GSN Chain “The Christmas Card” (2006, Romance) Ed Asner, “The National Tree” (2009, Drama) Andrew Mc“The Three Gifts” (2009, Drama) Dean Cain, Jean › “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (1998) Jonathan “Fallen Angel” (2003, Drama) Gary HALL John Newton, Alice Evans. Å Carthy, Kari Matchett, Evan Williams. Å Louisa Kelly, Mimi Kennedy. Å Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel. Å Sinise, Joely Richardson. Å “Purple Violets” (2007) Selma Blair. ‘NR’ Å ›› “Taken” (2009) Liam Neeson. › “10,000 B.C.” (2008) Steven Strait. ‘PG-13’ ›› “Black Knight” (2001) Martin Lawrence. Fools Gold HBO › “Fool’s Gold” (2008) ’ ‘PG-13’ Hammer Over Head Carter Can To Sell Curb Buck Money My Kitchen Divine Genevieve Color Colour Outside Dime Get It Sold To Sell Income For Rent H&G Sweat UFO Hunters “The Real UFO Hunters “First Con- UFO Hunters “Invasion UFO Hunters “First Re- UFO Hunters “Heartland UFO Files “Hangar 18: I Know What I Saw UFO witnesses share their ex- Ancient Aliens Å HIST Roswell” Å tact” Å Illinois” Å sponse” Å Explosion” Å The UFO Warehouse” periences and observations. Å Paid Prog. “Wall of Secrets” (2003) Nicole Eggert. Å “Secrets of the Summer House” (2008) Å “Forbidden Secrets” (2005) Kristy Swanson. “My Daughter’s Secret” (2007) Jennifer Grant. Neighbor LIFE Thinner ››› “Patriot Games” (1992) Harrison Ford. ›› “Leatherheads” (2008) George Clooney. ›› “Planet of the Apes” (2001) ‘PG-13’ Å ›› “Death Race” (2008) ‘R’ Å MAX › “The Glass House” (2001) Leelee Sobieski. Paris 1919 “Part 2” Operation Valkyrie ’ Return Salute ’ Å Gettysburg: Battle Gettysburg: Speech Modern Sniper “Army” Top Sniper ’ Å Top Sniper “Stealth” Mussolini MILIT Paris 1919 “Part 1” Teen Mom ’ Å Teen Mom ’ Å Teen Mom “Fallout” Jersey Shore ’ Å Jersey Shore ’ Å True Life ’ Å True Life ’ Decade of Cribs ’ MTV Strict Parents Hard Time Hard Time Hard Time Hard Time Hard Time Hard Time “Breakout” Explorer NGEO A Decade Behind Bars San Quentin Unlocked Lockdown ’ Barnyard Mighty B Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ iCarly ’ The Fairly OddParents Penguins Penguins Barnyard Barnyard iCarly ’ iCarly ’ iCarly ’ iCarly ’ iCarly ’ NICK Penguins Fanboy Master Blasters Å Master Blasters Å Master Blasters Å Master Blasters Å Master Blasters Å Master Blasters Å How-Made How-Made How-Made How-Made How-Made SCIENCE Master Blasters Å “Nobel Son” (2007) Alan Rickman. iTV. ’ ‘R’ ›› “The Forbidden Kingdom” (2008) ‘PG-13’ ››› “Donnie Brasco” (1997) Al Pacino. ‘R’ In NFL SHOW “The Great Debaters” ›› “Why Did I Get Married?” (2007) ‘PG-13’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Gilmore Girls ’ Å Gilmore Girls ’ Å Being Erica ’ Being Erica ’ The Young SOAP One Tree Hill ’ Å Gearz Gearz Gearz Gearz Gearz Gearz Gearz Pinks -- All Out Pinks -- All Out Pinks -- All Out Pinks -- All Out Pinks -- All Out Pinks All SPEED Gearz Band of Brothers Å Band of Brothers ’ Å Band of Brothers ’ Å Band of Brothers Å Band of Brothers ’ Å Brothers SPIKE Trucks! ’ MuscleCar Band of Brothers ’ Å ●Spotlight Phenoms Golf Raceline 3 Wide My Words College Flash Classics XTERRA XTERRA Championship 3 Wide Raceline Golf Golf Am. 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Dressed to Kill” (1946) Property Ladder Å Property Ladder Å What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ Tsunami TLC Property Ladder Å Law & Order “Justice” ’ The Closer Deadly do- ››› “King Kong” (2005, Adventure) Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody. ›› “The Legend of Zorro” (2005, Adventure) Antonio Ban››› “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001, Comedy-Drama) TNT Å (DVS) mestic violence case. A beauty tames a savage beast. Å deras. The swordsman and his wife fight a count. Å George Clooney, Matt Damon. 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Å Medium “Pain Killer” Allison suspects a hospital staffer 48 Hours Mystery “Drawn to Murder” Police work to set free a teen suspected of murder. ’ Å Inside Sports ’ CSI: Miami “Bloodline” ’ J WIAT is to blame for her friend’s death. ’ Å Å ›› “Miami Vice” (2006, Crime Drama) Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li. Detectives Crockett and Tubbs take on drug lords in Florida. ’ Paid Program ’ Paid Program ’ L WPXH ››› Heat (1995) ’ ●Titan’s All Access ›› “Futuresport” (1998) Wesley Snipes, Dean Cain. The world’s fate hangs upon a game outcome. American Chopper New press. ’ Å Everybody Hates Chris ¥ WABM Half & Half ’ Å CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Hot Topics ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Criminal Minds “Paradise” ’ Å Criminal Minds “The Instincts” ’ Å Criminal Minds “Memoriam” ’ Å CSI: Miami “Tunnel Vision” A body in a sinkhole. A&E ››› True Lies (1994) ››› “The Hunt for Red ››› “The Green Mile” (1999, Drama) Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan. A condemned prisoner possesses a miraculous healing power. Å AMC October” (1990) Cats 101 ’ Å Cats 101 Ocicat; Norwegian forest cat. ’ Å Cats 101 ’ Å Cats 101 Ocicat; Norwegian forest cat. ’ Å ANPL Cats 101 ’ Å Doctor Who Nemesis is reborn. (N) ’ Å Doctor Who: Inside Look Graham Norton Doctor Who “Waters of Mars” ’ Å BBC Doctor Who “Waters of Mars” The Doctor encounters a colony on Mars. Å The Jamie Foxx Show The Jamie Foxx Show ›› “Miami Vice” (2006, Crime Drama) Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li. Premiere. Detectives Crockett and Tubbs take on drug lords in Florida. Å BET The Jamie Foxx Show Unexplained Mysteries Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å ›› “The Replacements” (2000) Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman. Misfit substitutes take the field during a football strike. Å ›› The Replacements BRAVO Real Housewives Just for Laughs: Working Class Comedy ’ Ron White: They Call Me Tater Salad ’ Å Cable Guy’s C’mas Luau CMTV ›› “Police Academy” (1984, Comedy) Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall. ’ Bill Engvall: Aged and Confused Comic performs. Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity The comic performs. Å Larry the Cable Guy COMEDY “Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road” (2006, Comedy) Å Dirty Jobs “Spider Pharm” Spider venom. ’ Å Dirty Jobs “Fireworks Technician” ’ Å Dirty Jobs “Goose Down Plucker” ’ Å Dirty Jobs “Spider Pharm” Spider venom. ’ Å DISC Dirty Jobs ’ Å ›› “Sky High” (2005) Michael Angarano. Two super- ››› “Spy Kids” (2001, Adventure) Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega. The children of two secret Hannah Montana “Get Wizards of Waverly Place That’s So Raven Raven DISN heroes send their son to a training school. ‘PG’ agents battle an evil madman. ‘PG’ Å Down Study-udy-udy” ’ ’ Å has a stinky classmate. Kardashian ››› “Knocked Up” (2007, Romance-Comedy) Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl. A one-night stand has an unforeseen consequence. Giuliana & Bill The Soup Chelsea Lately E! ●College Football Emerald Bowl -- Boston College vs. USC. From San Francisco. (Live) ●SportsCenter Å ESPN College Football ●SportsCenter Å 2009 World Series of Poker 2009 World Series of Poker 2009 World Series of Poker NBA Fastbreak Å ESPN2 World Series ›› “Richie Rich” (1994) Macaulay Culkin. A young billionaire crosses paths with a greedy executive. ›› “Kicking & Screaming” (2005) Will Ferrell. A father and son go head-to-head as soccer coaches. FAM ››› The Incredibles Iron Chef America Mario Batali vs. Wylie Dufresne. Iron Chef America “Morimoto vs. Symon” Iron Chef America Bobby Flay vs. Rick Bayless. Iron Chef America “Flay vs. Morimoto” FOOD Extr. Cuisine ●Hawks Live! Postgame The Final Score Review ●The Final Score (Live) ●Pro Football Profiles ●The Final Score (Live) FOXSS ●NBA Basketball Atlanta Hawks at Indiana Pacers. From Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Live) ››› Spider-Man 2 ›› “Spider-Man 3” (2007, Action) Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco. Peter Parker faces new challenges and new villains. ›› “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006) Luke Wilson FX ›› “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972, Adventure) Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine. Å ›› “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972, Adventure) Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine. Å FXM Life After Film School Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å 1 vs. 100 ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å “Fallen Angel” (2003, “The Christmas Card” (2006, Romance) Ed Asner, John Newton, Alice Evans. A soldier falls for a woman who “Silent Night” (2002, Drama) Linda Hamilton, Matthew Harbour. A woman feeds American and German solHALL Drama) Gary Sinise. Å wrote a well-wishing card. Å diers on Christmas Eve. Å ››› “Revolutionary Road” (2008) Leonardo DiCaprio. Suburbanites rebel against torpor in their lives. Boxing’s Best of 2009 (N) Å HBO › “Fool’s Gold” (2008, Action) Matthew McConaughey. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Divine Design (N) Å Divine Design (N) Å Color Splash Å Color Splash Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Intern’l House Hunters H&G House Hunters Å Ancient Aliens Å Gangland “Dead Man Inc.” The prison gang Dead Man Gangland “Highway to Hell” The Avenues of Los Ange- Gangland “Street Law” The SUR-13 Hispanic gang in Gangland “Trinity of Blood” The Hispanic Tri-City HIST Incorporated has 14,000 members. Å les. Å Atlanta. Å Bombers gang smuggles drugs and weapons. Å “My Nanny’s Secret” (2009) Haylie Duff. A nanny suspects that her troubled brother committed murder. “My Nanny’s Secret” (2009) Haylie Duff. Å LIFE “My Neighbor’s Secret” (2009) Nicholas Brendon, Chandra West. Å ›› “The Secret Life of Bees” (2008, Drama) Queen Latifah. Premiere. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å MAX ››› “The Fifth Element” (1997, Science Fiction) Bruce Willis. A New York cabby tries to save Earth in 2259. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Warrior: From Civilian to Soldier ’ Å Modern Sniper What it takes to be a Marine sniper. From Geneva to Baghdad: The Rules of War Å MILIT Mission for Mussolini ’ From Geneva to Baghdad: The Rules of War Å ›› “Men in Black II” (2002, Comedy) Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn. ’ Styl’d “Dead and Gone” Cody shows his true self. Teen Mom “Fallout” Catelynn’s family lashes out. MTV MTV Cribs ’ American Beaver The Whale That Exploded Mystery Bear of the Arctic American Beaver NGEO Explorer iCarly ’ Å The Troop ’ Å iCarly ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK iCarly ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å How It’s Made ’ Å Head Games (N) ’ How Do They Do It? ’ 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 ›› “Rambo” (2008, Action) Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz. iTV. ’ ‘R’ ›› “The Mist” (2007, Horror) Thomas Jane. iTV. A deadly fog engulfs terrified townspeople. ’ ‘R’ › Saw IV (2007) ‘R’ SHOW ●Inside the NFL Å The Young and the Restless Monday ’ Å The Young and the Restless Tuesday ’ Å The Young and the Restless Wednesday ’ Å The Young and the Restless Thursday ’ Å SOAP Young & Restless ●Pinks -- All Out From Sonoma, Calif. 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TBS ››› “Music and Lyrics” (2007) Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett. ›› “Sherlock Holmes in ››› “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950, Crime Drama) Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, Marilyn Monroe. Ex-convict ›››› “Adam’s Rib” (1949, Romance-Comedy) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday. Married TCM Dressed to Kill” (1946) plans jewel heist with odd losers. Å (DVS) lawyers bring their courtroom battle home. Å (DVS) The Secret Life of Tiger Woods ’ Å Hudson Plane Crash: What Really Happened Å Disappeared A young woman disappears. ’ Å The Secret Life of Tiger Woods ’ Å TLC Mega-Tsunami ››› “Ocean’s Eleven” ›› “Sahara” (2005, Adventure) Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz. Adventurers search for a ›› “The Legend of Zorro” (2005, Adventure) Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell. The TNT (2001) Å Confederate ship in Africa. Å swordsman and his wife fight a count. Å Batman: Brave The Secret Saturdays Hot Wheels King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å The PJs ’ Å The Boondocks TOON Super Hero Squad Show Teen Titans “Troq” H.S. Reunion Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne A yuletide wedding is in the works. Å TVLND ››› “Top Gun” (1986, Adventure) Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis. NCIS “Family Secret” ’ Å NCIS “Twisted Sister” ’ Å NCIS “The Voyeur’s Web” ’ Å USA NCIS “The Meat Puzzle” NCIS “Witch Hunt” ’ Å ››› “Remember the Titans” (2000) Denzel Washington, Will Patton. ’ VH1 ›› Roll Bounce (2005) ››› “Remember the Titans” (2000) Denzel Washington. Premiere. A black man coaches high-school football after integration. ’ CABLE NEWS American Greed Fine-art theft; medical fraud. The Suze Orman Show “Happy Holidays!” (N) Å Til Debt Do Us Part ’ Til Debt Do Us Part ’ American Greed Fine-art theft; medical fraud. CNBC Biography on CNBC Campbell Brown Larry King Live Manson disciple show. 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Å Minute Money Dinners Home Big Daddy Paula’s Party Diners Diners Diner, Drive-In Cakes Cakes Snacks Unwrapped Challenge FOOD Contessa Grill It-Flay Big Bite ●Sport Science Calipari World Poker Air Racing Billiards: Pool Best Damn 50 Final Score Road Trip FOXSS Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Motorspt PRI Series Mitchell ››› “Superman Returns” (2006, Adventure) ›› “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006) ››› “Spider-Man 2” (2004, Action) Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst. ›› “Spider-Man 3” (2007) Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst. FX ››› “Two for the Road” (1967) Å ›› “Robin Hood” (1991) Patrick Bergin. Å ››› “The Princess Bride” (1987) Å Film FXM Dr Dolittle ›› “How to Steal a Million” (1966) Audrey Hepburn. Å Fam. Feud Newlywed Catch 21 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal Å Deal or No Deal Å Fam Feud Fam Feud Newlywed Catch 21 Be a Millionaire High Stakes Poker Poker GSN Chain ›› “Ms. Scrooge” (1997) Cicely Tyson. A woman ›› “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” (2004) ›› “Ebbie” (1995) Susan Lucci. 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FX ››› “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet” (1996, Romance) Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy. Å ››› “Romancing the Stone” (1984) Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner. Å FXM Life After Film School ●High Stakes Poker Å ●World Poker Tour Players include Tommy Le, John Roveto, David Chiu, Cory Carroll, Gus Hansen. Å High Stakes Poker Å GSN High Stakes Poker Å ›› “A Christmas Carol: “Moonlight and Mistletoe” (2008, Drama) Candace Cameron Bure, Tom Arnold, Christopher Wiehl. Nick and “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” (2000, Fantasy) Vanessa L. Williams, Kathy Griffin, Rozonda Thomas. Three spirHALL The Musical” Å his daughter fight to keep their theme park open. Å its pay a holiday visit to a self-centered singer. Å ››› “Sex and the City” (2008) Sarah Jessica Parker. Time brings many changes for Carrie and her gal pals. ’ ‘R’ Å Boxing’s Best of 2009 ››› Tropic Thunder HBO ›››› “The Dark Knight” (2008) Christian Bale. 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Extreme Machines “Tanks” ’ Å The Real NCIS “Vanished at Sea” ’ Å MILIT Clash of Wings Battles. The Real NCIS “Vanished at Sea” ’ Å Jersey Shore ’ Å Jersey Shore A fight erupts at the bar. ’ Å MTV South Park Who we are. Jersey Shore Roommates move in to their summer share. ’ Å Explorer White supremacists in prisons. KKK: Inside American Terror American Nazis Explorer White supremacists in prisons. NGEO Hooked Nick News Special Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK True Jackson, VP Å Biblical Mysteries Explained ’ Biblical Mysteries Explained ’ Biblical Mysteries Explained “Lost Gospels” Å Biblical Mysteries Explained ’ SCIENCE Ancient Secrets ›› “The Eye” (2008, Horror) Jessica Alba, Parker Posey. iTV. ’ ‘PG-13’ ››› “3:10 to Yuma” (2007, Western) Russell Crowe. iTV. 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Å ››› “The Hunt for Red October” (1990, Suspense) Sean Connery. Å ››› “The Green Mile” (1999, Drama) Tom Hanks, David Morse. Å ››› “The Green Mile” (1999, Drama) Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan. Å ››› “First Blood” (1982) Sylvester Stallone. ›› “Rambo: First Blood Part II” AMC W ››› “Jeremiah Johnson” (1972) Will Geer TH 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges 3 Stooges F “Alien Resurrection” ››› “The Matrix” (1999) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. Å ››› “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves. Å ›› “The Matrix Revolutions” (2003) Keanu Reeves. Å Cash in the Attic Varied Programs Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Ramsay’s Kitchen Ramsay’s Kitchen News BBC How Clean How Clean Cash in the Attic Varied Programs BET The Mo’Nique Show Biography Biography Varied Programs City Confidential Biography Biography Biography Biography Varied Programs City BIO BRAVO Varied Programs CMT Power Picks Varied Programs CMTV CMT Music Presents Varied Programs MADtv Presents Movie Varied Programs Scrubs Scrubs RENO 911! COMEDY Movie DISC Varied Programs Einsteins Tigger Charlie Movie Varied Programs Phineas Suite Life Wizards DISN Jungle Movie Varied Programs E! News Daily 10 Varied Programs E! News E! ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●NFL Live Varied Programs Varied Programs ESPN ●SportsCenter ●ESPN First Take Varied Programs ESPN2 ●ESPN First Take Gilmore Girls What I What I My Wife My Wife Sabrina Sabrina Full House Full House Grounded Varied Gilmore Girls Fresh Pr. Fresh Pr. Varied FAM The 700 Club Entertain Quick Fix Cooking Italian Minute Contessa Lee Boy Grill Varied Programs Cooking Varied Contessa Home Varied Minute Challenge FOOD Emeril Live Varied FOXSS Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Varied Programs Movie Varied Programs Spin City Varied Programs Malcolm Malcolm Bernie Bernie ’70s Show ’70s Show Movie FX M ››› “Night Train to Munich” (1940, Suspense) ››› “Our Man Flint” (1966) James Coburn. “The Day the Earth Stood Still” Å Life After... ›› “Fathom” (1967) Tony Franciosa. Å “Bonnie and Clyde: The True Story” T ››› “In Like Flint” (1967) James Coburn. Å ››› “No Highway in the Sky” (1951) Å ››› “The Flight of the Phoenix” (1965) James Stewart. ›› “The Man With One Red Shoe” (1985) Å ›› “Vanishing Point” ›› “The Pleasure Seekers” (1964) Ann-Margret. ››› “Two for the Road” (1967) Å ››› “Romancing the Stone” (1984) Å Life After... FXM W “Wild in the Country” ›› “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1956) Tom Ewell. TH ››› “Demetrius and the Gladiators” (1954) ›› “Son of Robin Hood” (1959) ››› “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” (1974) Å ››› “Hot Shots! Part Deux” (1993) ››› “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993, Comedy) Robin Williams. Å F ››› “The Sand Pebbles” (1966) Steve McQueen. Å Legacy ›››› “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) ››› “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet” (1996) Å ››› “Speed” (1994) Keanu Reeves. Å Lingo Lingo Fam Feud Fam Feud Deal or No Deal Newlywed Catch 21 Deal No GSN Varied Programs Golden Golden Golden Movie Varied Programs Movie Movie Movie HALL Golden House Varied Programs House H&G Varied Programs M Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage (N) Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage Deep Sea Salvage Salvage T The Universe Å The Universe Å The Universe Å Earth-Made The Universe The formation of galaxies. 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The O.C. One Tree Hill One Tree Hill Beverly Hills, 90210 Days of our Lives Young SOAP Days of our Lives ●Monster Jam ●Unique Whips Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Varied Programs Truck U Chop Cut Edge Varied SPEED Varied Programs SPIKE Varied Programs Varied Programs SPSO College SYFY Varied Programs Your Day Copeland Varied Programs Behind Varied Robison Marilyn H. The 700 Club Hagee Rod P. Movie Varied TBN Rod P. King Raymond Raymond Payne Payne Accrd Jim Jim Friends Friends Seinfeld The Office Name Earl TBS Just Shoot Home Imp. Home Imp. Yes, Dear Yes, Dear Raymond King M ›› “Four Wives” (1939) Claude Rains. Å ››› “The Merry Widow” (1952) Lana Turner. ›› “Once Upon a Honeymoon” (1942) Å ››› “The Opposite Sex” (1956) June Allyson. “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” T 42nd St. ››› “The Cameraman” (1928) ›››› “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” (1944) ››› “Salt of the Earth” (1954) ››› “Harold and Maude” (1971) Bud Cort. ››› “Flower Drum Song” (1961) Nancy Kwan. ›› “Battle Circus” (1953, War) Å ››› “The Barefoot Contessa” (1954) Humphrey Bogart. ››› “The Harder They Fall” (1956) Å Bacall on Bogart Å TCM W “In a Lonely Place” Å ›› “Sirocco” (1951) Marta Toren TH ››› “Marnie” (1964) Tippi Hedren. ›››› “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943) Å ›››› “Psycho” (1960) Anthony Perkins. Å ›››› “Vertigo” (1958) James Stewart, Kim Novak. Å ›››› “Rear Window” (1954) Å F “Anatomy of a Murder” ››› “The Stratton Story” (1949) Å ››› “The Man From Laramie” (1955) Å ›››› “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” ››› “How the West Was Won” (1962) Carroll Baker. 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Å debate team. ’ Å a holiday party. ’ Å (N) Å Conan O’Brien ’ Å One Tree Hill “I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight” Gossip Girl “The Lost Boy” ’ Å The King of Queens ’ My Name Is Earl Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO Two and a Half Men ’ Keith Howard Show Titan Pride TV24 Local News TV24 Local News Rick & Bubba Å Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS What a Deal Deals on restaurant and golf certificates. Wheel of Fortune “Wheel ›› “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007, Adventure) Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley. Premiere. Jack Sparrow’s friends join forces to save ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU Across America” him. ’ (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) How I Met Your Mother Accidentally on Purpose Two and a Half Men “The The Big Bang Theory Ac- CSI: Miami “Target Specific” ’ Å CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å “Double Date” ’ Å Seeing other people. ’ Devil’s Lube” Å tress rides same train. Letterman ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Firestarter” ’ Å Criminal Minds A serial killer preys on the elderly. Criminal Minds “Charm and Harm” ’ Å Criminal Minds “Lucky” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Cold Comfort” Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Legion” ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter? CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Intervention “Kristen” Å Intervention A victim of sex abuse keeps it secret. Hoarders A hoarder loses custody of her son. (N) Hoarders A son tries to rescue his mother. Å A&E Criminal Minds ’ Å ››› “Jeremiah John››› “The Green Mile” (1999, Drama) Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan. A condemned prisoner possesses a miraculous healing power. Å AMC son” (1972) Will Geer Pit Bulls and Parolees “Episode 1” ’ Å The Haunted “Terror At Maple Dale” ’ Å Pit Bulls and Parolees “Episode 1” ’ Å ANPL Untamed and Uncut ’ Animal Cops Philadelphia “Hole-in-the-Neck Cat” Top Gear Lewis Hamilton. Å Top Gear Å World News How Clean Top Gear Lewis Hamilton. Å BBC How Clean To Be Announced The Mo’Nique Show Å BET Family Matters ’ Å City Confidential Å I Survived “Michelle; Troy & Josh” Å I Survived “Sarah; Sherman & Dee; Ellen” Å I Survived “Denise; Nick; Leonilda” Å I Survived “Jim & Nell; Jennifer; Tammi” Å BIO Million Dollar Listing Josh makes a gamble. Å Million Dollar Listing Josh wants to move a home. Million Dollar Listing Josh lists Dr. Sam’s house. Million Dollar Listing Josh agrees to a co-listing. BRAVO Matchmaker Are You Smarter? Are You Smarter? ›› “Where the Heart Is” (2000) Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd. Kind townspeople befriend an abandoned teen and her infant. ’ ›› Where the Heart Is CMTV Extreme-Home George Lopez: America’s Mexican In Phoenix. ’ Gabriel Iglesias: I’m Not Fat... I’m Fluffy Å Anjelah Johnson: That’s How We Do It (N) Å COMEDY ›› “Accepted” (2006, Comedy) Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively. Å MythBusters Investigating two filthy myths. ’ Å MythBusters Six fan-requested fables. (N) ’ Å Motor City Motors 1928 Ford Model-T. ’ Å MythBusters Six fan-requested fables. ’ Å DISC MythBusters ’ Å Hannah Montana Hannah ›› “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” (2004, Romance-Comedy) Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Phineas and Ferb Hannah Montana Hannah Wizards of Waverly Place That’s So Raven “A Dog DISN and Austin Rain. Hector Elizondo. A young princess must marry or give up the throne. ‘G’ Å and Austin Rain. “Future Harper” by Any Other Name” The Daily 10 (N) Kardashian The Soup Bank of Hollywood Man with an Olympic dream. (N) Giuliana & Bill Kardashian Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●NFL Football Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears. Brett Favre and the Vikings travel to Chicago to take on Jay Cutler and the Bears. (Live) ●SportsCenter Å ESPN Monday Night Countdown (Live) Å ●College Basketball Rutgers at North Carolina. (Live) NBA Coast-to-Coast (Live) Å ESPN2 College Football ›› “Major Payne” (1995) Damon Wayans. Premiere. A gung-ho Marine commands young recruits. Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å FAM That ’70s Show ’ Å Good Eats Tenderloin. Good Eats Tenderloin. Unwrapped Unwrapped “Toasted” Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy heads to Arizona. Good Eats Stew. Unwrapped FOOD Challenge ●In My Own Words ●The Final Score (Live) ●The Final Score (Live) Best Damn 50 Jay Glazer FOXSS ●College Basketball American at Florida. (Live) Fantastic Four › “The Marine” (2006, Action) John Cena, Robert Patrick. Thugs kidnap the wife of a soldier. ›› “Behind Enemy Lines” (2001, Action) Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht. FX ›› “The Good Son” (1993, Suspense) Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood. Å Life After Film School ›› “Terror Train” (1980) Ben Johnson. Partying college students die aboard a chartered train. Å FXM Bonnie and Clyde Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å ›› “A Season for Mira- “Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle” (2009, Drama) James Van Der Beek, Erin Karpluk, Doris Roberts. A sin- ›› “The Ultimate Gift” (2006, Drama) Drew Fuller, James Garner, Abigail Breslin. A young man makes a jourHALL cles” (1999) Å gle father hires a nanny for his 6-year-old twins. Å ney to claim his inheritance. Å True Blood “Strange Love” ’ Å True Blood “The First Taste” ’ Å True Blood “Mine” ’ Å Boxing’s Best of 2009 (N) ’ Å HBO ›› Summer Catch ’ Property Virgins Å Property Virgins Å House Hunters Å My First Place Å House Hunters Å For Rent Urban oasis. ’ Real Estate Intervention My First Place Å H&G House Hunters Å Deep Sea Salvage “Final Pawn Stars “A Shot and a Pawn Stars “Old Man’s Pawn Stars “Pawn Shop Pawn Stars Santa Claus Pawn Stars Lincoln assas- Pawn Stars WWII ship Strange Rituals “Masters of Pain” Ruben Enaje enHIST Battle” Å Shave” Å Booty” Å Pinot” Å makes an appearance. sination ephemera. spyglass; pink Harley. dures a crucifixion. (N) Å Grey’s Anatomy “What a Difference a Day Makes” ›› “Wind Chill” (2007, Horror) Emily Blunt. Ghosts menace two students stranded on a deserted road. Will & Grace ’ Å Will & Grace ’ Å LIFE Grey’s Anatomy Å ›› “The Secret Life of Bees” (2008, Drama) Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å ›› “High Crimes” (2002) Ashley Judd. An attorney tries to prove her husband’s innocence. ’ ‘PG-13’ MAX ›› A Knight’s Tale ’ Somali Pirate Takedown the Real Story ’ Å Satellite Shootdown ’ Å Pilot Down: Captain Scott Speicher Somali Pirate Takedown the Real Story ’ Å MILIT Clash of Wings ’ Å South Park ’ Å South Park ’ Å › “Gone in Sixty Seconds” (2000, Action) Nicolas Cage. Premiere. A retired thief must steal 50 cars to save his brother. ’ Gone in Sixty Seconds MTV Jersey Shore ’ Å Dog Whisperer A great Dane bites her owner. (N) Dog Whisperer Dog Psychology Center. Hard Time “Breaking In” Dog Whisperer A great Dane bites her owner. NGEO Dog Whisperer Glenn Martin, DDS Å Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny Å The Nanny Å NICK The Troop ’ Å The Man Who Built His Own Submarine ’ Å The Man Who Built His Own Submarine ’ Å How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ The Man Who Built His Own Submarine ’ Å SCIENCE Myst. Titanic › “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” (2008, Documentary) Ben Stein. iTV. ’ ‘PG’ Å ››› “Poliwood” (2009) iTV. ’ ‘NR’ SHOW “All Together Now” (2008) Dominic Champagne. iTV. ’ ‘NR’ Å All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å General Hospital Today ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●Barrett-Jackson 2009: The Auctions (N) ●Car Crazy SuperCars Exposed SuperCars Exposed Barrett-Jackson 2009: The Auctions Pass Time SPEED Pass Time Nitro Circus ’ Å Nitro Circus ’ Å ››› “Bad Santa” (2003) Billy Bob Thornton. Two criminals disguise themselves as St. Nick and an elf. ››› “Bad Santa” (2003) Billy Bob Thornton. ’ SPIKE Nitro Circus ’ Å Thrashers Post Darrin Horn Show Poker -- Learn NHL Hockey: Thrashers at Devils SPSO ●NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at New Jersey Devils. From Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. (Live) ›› “King Arthur” (2004, Historical Drama) Clive Owen, Keira Knightley. Arthur and his knights embark on a rescue mission. Å Scare Tactics ’ Å Monster (N) Monster “Lunge’s Trap” SYFY ›› National Treasure Behind the Scenes Å Mark Chironna Å Jentezen Franklin Å Jesse Duplantis Å Praise the Lord Å TBN Hillsong Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Lopez Tonight TBS My Name Is Earl “Pinky” Family Guy “Holy Crap” Family Guy ’ Å ››› “The Courtship of ››› “Broadway Bill” (1934, Romance-Comedy) Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly. Premiere. A ›› “Riding High” (1950, Comedy) Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford. Premiere. A trainer stakes his TCM Eddie’s Father” racehorse owner and his sister-in-law try for a long shot. hopes on a 3-year-old Thoroughbred. Cake Boss ’ Å Cake Boss ’ Å Cake Boss ’ Å Cake Boss ’ Å Little Chocolatiers ’ Å Cake Boss ’ Å Cake Boss ’ Å TLC Cake Boss ’ Å Bones “Woman at the Air- Bones “The Woman in the Car” The suspect is in the Bones “The Goop on the Girl” A man dressed as San- Men of a Certain Age “The New Guy” (N) Å The Closer “Controlled Burn” An arson investigation. TNT port” ’ Å Witness Protection Program. ’ Å ta is blown up. ’ Å Å The Garfield Show The Garfield Show King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy “McStroke” Family Guy ’ Å TOON › “Inspector Gadget” (1999, Comedy) Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett. The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Married... With Children Married... With Children Married... With Children Married... With Children Married... With Children Married... With Children TVLND Sanford and Son Å ●WWE Monday Night RAW Guest Host Timbaland. Plus, Cena, DX & WWE Champion Sheamus. Å NCIS “Kill Ari” ’ (Part 2 of 2) Å ›› “Final Destination 2” (2003) Ali Larter. Å USA NCIS “Kill Ari” Å Behind the Music “50 Cent” ’ Å 100 Most Shocking Music Moments “Hour 1” (N) I Want to Work for Diddy ’ Å 100 Most Shocking Music Moments “Hour 1” ’ VH1 Behind the Music Å CABLE NEWS Cruise Inc.: Big Money on the High Seas Biography on CNBC The Home Depot. The Bubble Decade Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN CNN Tonight (N) Interviews With Supreme Court Justices John Roberts; John Paul Stevens. Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. 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 FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Hardball Å
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Å Scrubs Med school at Sa- Better Off Ted Veronica’s 20/20 “Blind Side: The True Story Behind the Movie” (N) ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU Across America” cred Heart. ’ Å boyfriend comes to town. ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) NCIS “Deliverance” Gibbs finds a cryptic message wait- The 32nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors Entertainers are honored. (N) ’ Å CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å ing for him at a crime scene. ’ Å Letterman ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Ghost in the Machine” ’ Å Criminal Minds “The Fisher King, Part One” Å Criminal Minds “The Fisher King, Part II” ’ Å Criminal Minds “Penelope” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å Are You Smarter Are You Smarter Deal or No Deal ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter? CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal (N) Å Paranormal State (N) Paranormal State (N) Celebrity Ghost Stories Å A&E Criminal Minds “Jones” Criminal Minds “Soul Mates” ’ Å ››› “The Green Mile” ››› “Ghost” (1990, Fantasy) Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg. Slain yuppie reaches his lover with psychic’s help. Å ››› “First Blood” (1982, Action) Sylvester Stallone, AMC (1999) Tom Hanks. Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy. Å I Was Bitten Danger can lurk in one’s backyard. ’ I Was Bitten Intense bites and their gory aftermath. I Was Bitten Most-extreme bites. ’ Å I Was Bitten Intense bites and their gory aftermath. ANPL I Was Bitten ’ Å 100 Men Own My Breasts Å Britain’s Missing Top Model (N) Å World News How Clean 100 Men Own My Breasts Å BBC How Clean Monica: Still Standing Monica: Still Standing The Mo’Nique Show Å BET To Be Announced City Confidential Å Biography “Mackenzie Phillips” Å Biography The Mamas and the Papas. Å Shatner’s Raw Nerve Shatner’s Raw Nerve Biography “Leif Garrett” Teen idol Leif Garrett. BIO Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Tabatha’s Salon Takeover (N) Tabatha’s Salon Takeover BRAVO Salon Takeover ››› “Pure Country” (1992, Drama) George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren. A country singer struggles with the burden of stardom. ’ ››› “Pure Country” (1992, Drama) George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren. ’ CMTV Are You Smarter? South Park Å South Park Å South Park Å South Park Å South Park “Goobacks” South Park “Gnomes” COMEDY The Jeff Dunham Show Important Things-Martin Tosh.0 Å Dirty Jobs “Worm Grunter” ’ Å Dirty Jobs Paint bulking; making maple syrup. (N) Ghost Lab “If Walls Could Talk” (N) ’ Å Dirty Jobs “Worm Grunter” ’ Å DISC Dirty Jobs ’ Å Hannah Montana ’ ››› “The Parent Trap” (1998, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson. Separated twin sisters plot to reunite parHannah Montana ’ Wizards of Waverly Place That’s So Raven Raven DISN ents. ‘PG’ Å disobeys her parents. ’ The Daily 10 (N) Kendra: Here Comes Baby Giuliana & Bill Kardashian Kardashian Chelsea Lately Bloopers Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Football Champs Sports Bowl -- Miami vs. Wisconsin. From Orlando, Fla. (Live) ●SportsCenter Å ESPN College Football ●College Basketball Penn State at Minnesota. (Live) ●SportsCenter Å ●NFL Live (N) Å ESPN2 ●College Basketball Hartford at Kentucky. (Live) America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å FAM America’s Funniest Ace of Cakes Ace of Cakes Private Chefs of Beverly Hills (Series Premiere) (N) Chopped “Oh My Goshi, Umeboshi” Good Eats Olives. Unwrapped FOOD Challenge ●In My Own Words ●The Final Score The Final Score Review ●The Final Score (Live) Brian Billick FOXSS ●College Basketball Long Beach State at Duke. (Live) › The Marine (2006) ››› “28 Weeks Later” (2007) Robert Carlyle. Premiere. A carrier of rage virus reinfects London. ››› “28 Weeks Later” (2007) Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne. A carrier of rage virus reinfects London. FX ›› “Taps” (1981) Timothy Hutton. Military cadets secure their campus from condo developers. Å › “Cold Around the Heart” (1997) David Caruso. A thief vows revenge on the lover who betrayed him. FXM ›› Vanishing Point Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å “All I Want for Christ“Mr. St. Nick” (2002, Fantasy) Kelsey Grammer, Charles Durning, Katherine Helmond. The son of Santa Claus “A Grandpa for Christmas” (2007, Comedy-Drama) Ernest Borgnine, Juliette Goglia, Katherine Helmond. A HALL mas” (2007) Å is reluctant to accept his destiny. Å grandfather cares for his granddaughter. 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The top 10 television shows of the decade By Chuck Barney Contra Costa Times
“There’s nothing good to watch on TV.” It’s a familiar complaint, voiced repeatedly since mom and pop purchased their first black-and-white Philco. But if you uttered those words over the past 10 years, you weren’t paying close enough attention — or didn’t have cable. This, after all, was the decade in which television raised its game — when TV junk food gave way to brain food. That might sound ludicrous considering the decade tortured us with Temptation Island, Joe Millionaire and hundreds of other reality TV nightmares. Yes, prime time, as always, served up its share of schlock. But it also served up The Sopranos and Lost and Mad Men and The Wire. It gave us shows that were audacious and ambitious, artful and sophisticated. Shows that embraced mature themes and challenged us to actually think. Give some credit to pop-cultural fragmentation. As television splintered off into an array of niche channels, it may have lost some of its electronichearth power to gather the multitudes in communal unity. On the other hand, the dynamic enabled a new wave of TV auteurs to express their visions without being beholden to the masses. David Simon, for example, could push boundaries with The Wire on HBO while averaging only 1.6 million viewers per episode, which would have earned him a quick cancellation on a broadcast network. And Joss Whedon took advantage of the relative obscurity of the WB (and later, UPN) to offer a very offbeat twist on the teen drama with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That’s not to say the major networks couldn’t occasionally still attract the masses with high-powered programming. ABC’s Lost completely rattled our notions of what television could be. Meanwhile, American Idol (Fox) and Survivor (CBS) proved that reality TV — when wedded to a great concept — could hold us in thrall. Here are our picks for the best TV shows of decade — choices that were made on the basis of artistic achievement, originality and cultural impact. 1. The Sopranos (HBO, 1999-2007): Creator David Chase gave us a protagonist like none we had ever seen: A beefy, baggy-eyed mobster (and family man)
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with a hair-trigger temper, a weakness for the ladies and some very serious mommy issues. Impeccably played by James Gandolfini, Tony Soprano was both revolting and riveting. Chase surrounded him with a superlative cast, including the fabulous Edie Falco, and took them all on a wild ride with more twists and curves than a Bada-bing girl. Many shows later would deploy their own Tony-like anti-heroes, but none quite managed to replicate The Sopranos stimulating blend of social commentary, wicked humor, psychological depth and violent intrigue. 2. Lost (ABC, 2004-present): It’s the Rubik’s Cube of TV shows. This planecrash survival drama has had fans obsessed with trying to crack its numberscrunching, monster-chasing, time-tripping mythology. But in addition to an intricate mystery, Lost has offered us a compelling web of personal stories tied to a diverse and ever-engaging group of island castaways. We can hardly wait for the final chapter to unfold.
3. The Wire (HBO, 2002-08): At a time when quick-and-tidy procedural cop dramas were spreading like a virus, Simon’s grim urban masterpiece resisted the simplistic approach, unfolding in novelistic leisure while deftly exploring its flawed characters and pertinent social issues. The result was a monumental achievement that was as rewarding as it was challenging. 4. Mad Men (AMC, 2007-present): Creator Matthew Weiner could have immersed his 1960s-era drama in sugarcoated nostalgia. But to his credit, he instead plunged us deep into the dark side of the American dream, exposing the lies behind our idealized pop-cultural imagery and the emotional scars that come with unbridled self-indulgence. Don Draper and his booze-guzzling, skirtchasing cohorts not only demonstrate how much we have changed as a society, but how much we haven’t. 5. American Idol (Fox, 2002-present): Not even Simon Cowell could have pre-
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dicted how big this show would become. Blending glitzy entertainment with heart-tugging stories, a parade of deluded oddballs (bless you, William Hung), and a heaping dose of Simon’s snark, Idol became No. 1 with a bullet. Along the way, it changed not just television, but the music industry and the star-making process. 6. Deadwood (HBO, 2004-06): At first glance, David Milch’s violent and vulgar saga recalled a TV era when the Western was king. But this complex series shot gaping holes in all the innocent illusions, cartoonish heroism and open-range romance traditionally associated with the genre. At its heart was Milch’s wonderfully theatrical dialogue and an astonishing performance by Ian McShane as the grotesquely sinister Al Swearengen. 7. Sex and the City (HBO, 1998-2004): Yes, much of it was about the shagging and the shopping. But Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her sassy gal pals also gave us a moving portrait of all-for-one friendship — the unbreakable bond shared by four soul mates. And that’s something every viewer can admire, even if they don’t wear Manolo Blahniks. 8. Arrested Development (Fox, 200306): A perfect show for the post-Enron era, this sitcom about a family of wealthy buffoons done in by their own greed was so fresh and bizarre and bubbling with larcenous wit that we were stunned to find it on broadcast television. No wonder it didn’t last long. Let’s hope the Bluths wind up on the big screen very soon. 9. Friday Night Lights (NBC/DirecTV, 2006-present): We’re still leading the cheers for this big-hearted football drama that happens to be about so much more than football. Lights deftly delves into the hopes and dreams of its small-town characters with the kind of emotional honesty rarely seen in prime time. Meanwhile, Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton have given us television’s most natural and realistic depiction of marriage. 10. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 1999-present): The smirky Stewart may not have been the show’s first anchor, but under his reign, the faux newscast gained a sharper edge and greater cultural relevance. In skewering the media and the people the media cover, he and his band of merry jesters have not only amused us, they’ve informed us.
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PBS to spotlight Patti Smith’s ‘P.O.V.’ By Luaine Lee McClatchy-Tribune News Service
PASADENA, Calif. — Poet and punk musician Patti Smith may have hibernated for 16 years, but she’s back stronger than ever. Once called the “godmother of punk,” Smith is best known for her song,
“Because the Night,” which she co-wrote with Bruce Springsteen, and her constant efforts to communicate through her voice, words and performance art. On Dec. 30 Smith will be the subject of a documentary on PBS’ P.O.V. called Patti Smith: Dream of Life, filmed by her friend
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and professional photographer Steven Sebring. Though Smith was at her peak at the end of the ’70s, she wasn’t like many of her peers who were wasted on drugs and alcohol and strung out for the rest of their lives. “I withdrew from the public eye in 1979 and went to Detroit and got married and had a family,” she says. “And my husband and I — he had been in the (band) MC5, and both of us wanted our children to have a traditional childhood, which didn’t include being dragged from place to place on the road. So we decided to live a simpler life.” That was fine while it lasted. But her spouse, guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, died suddenly at 45. “When my husband passed away in late ’94, I had to start a new life. I had to make a living for my children. And the thing I knew best was performing,” she says. “So I was asked by Bob Dylan to tour with him. Allen Ginsberg had told him of my fate, and a lot of people sort of rallied to help me,” says Smith, who’s wearing a white men’s shirt, black tie, black pants and cowboy boots. “And I went on the road for a tour with him. And he really encouraged me to come back into the fold and to perform for the people. So I did, as best I could, within my children’s school schedule.” Leaving at the top of her game wasn’t easy. “It was a difficult decision, but one that I’ve never regretted. I think that we all have to evolve as human beings and I ... had done what I had set out to do in rock ’n’ roll in 1979, and that was to create
space for new people. And I thought that it was time for me to learn new things, to evolve as a human being, and to commit myself to the person that I loved and to my children. I wanted my children to know who I was, that I was their mother, that I wasn’t someone who was absent all of the time that they saw in newspapers or magazines. I wanted them to know me simply as their mother. And both of my kids will tell you that that’s what they think of me, as their mom. The rest of it, they find perhaps interesting or amusing, but I’m Mom first.” Her son, Jackson, is now 27 and her daughter, Jesse, is 22. Though Smith is considered an early punk icon, she says her work melded rock ’n’ roll with the newer form of music. “We’re more like the bridge between traditional — and when I say ’traditional,’ I mean it in the highest sense and the most revolutionary sense, but traditional rock ’n’ roll and the — well, the punk movement. Because we were very conscious about ... what we wanted to do when we entered the scene. And what we wanted to do was remind people of the power and the innate power and the fact that rock ’n’ roll did belong to the people, that it was our cultural voice, and we were trying to move from the glamorous, indulgent aspects of rock ’n’ roll in the early ’70s,” she recalls. “I mean, we had lost some of our great artists, and we were very concerned that rock ’n’ roll was going to become engulfed by business, glamour, drugs, celebrity, and we were trying to break through that.”
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The Real World “D.C.” (Season Premiere) (N) Å Real World The Real World “D.C.” MTV Parental Control Å Dog Whisperer “Charlotte, Elvis and Jack” Dog Whisperer Hard Time “Tools of Control” Dog Whisperer “Charlotte, Elvis and Jack” NGEO Dog Whisperer Glenn Martin, DDS Å Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK The Troop ’ Å Bees: Inside the Hive (N) ’ Deadly Bugs ’ Å The Amazing Octopus Octopus’s life. ’ Å SCIENCE Anaconda: Giant Snake The Amazing Octopus Octopus’s life. ’ Å ●Inside the NFL (iTV) (N) ’ Å ●Inside the NFL (iTV) ’ Å Full Color Football: History of the AFL Full Color Football: History of the AFL SHOW Full Color All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å Being Erica “She’s Lost Control” ’ Å (DVS) General Hospital Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●Dangerous Drives (N) ●Pass Time ●Pass Time ●Pass Time ●Pass Time Wrecked Rookie drivers. Wrecked SPEED ●Pass Time 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die (N) ’ MANswers (N) ’ Å MANswers ’ Å MANswers ’ Å SPIKE 1,000 Ways to Die ’ ●Spotlight Thrashers Post NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Boston Bruins. SPSO ●NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Boston Bruins. From TD Garden in Boston. (Subject to Blackout) (Live) Ghost Hunters Site near the Manson murders. Å Ghost Hunters “Club Dead” ’ Å Ghost Hunters “Fort Henry” ’ Å Ghost Hunters Historic sugar plantation. ’ Å SYFY Ghost Hunters ’ Å Behind the Scenes Å Grant Jeffrey Å Secrets of Bible Jack Van Impe Presents › “Left Behind II: Tribulation Force” (2002, Drama) Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Cindy Gomez. TBN Billy Graham Classic House of Payne House of Payne House of Payne House of Payne Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Lopez Tonight TBS My Name Is Earl Å Bacall on Bogart Å ››› “Deadline U.S.A.” (1952, Drama) Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore. Pre- ››› “The Left Hand of God” (1955, Adventure) Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb. Premiere. A ››› “Beat the Devil” TCM miere. A newspaperman locks horns with a powerful gangland chief. pilot poses as a priest to escape war-torn China. (1954) Humphrey Bogart. Police Women of Broward County ’ Å Police Women of Broward County ’ Å The Imploders “Ten Stories of Solid Steel” Å Police Women of Broward County ’ Å TLC Police Women Bones “The Man on the Bones Dr. Brennan tries online dating but finds herself Forensic Files Kentucky Forensic Files “Sunday ››› “The Truman Show” (1998, Comedy-Drama) Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich. Cameras broadTNT Fairway” ’ Å the target of a shooting. ’ Å case. Å School Ambush” Å cast an unwitting man’s life. Å What Would Happen? Star Wars Clo. Teen Titans King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON ›› Agent Cody Banks Destroy Build Destroy The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Married... With Children Married... With Children H.S. Reunion M*A*S*H “The Gun” M*A*S*H Å M*A*S*H Å TVLND Sanford and Son Å ››› “Gone Baby Gone” (2007) Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan. Premiere. Two investigators search for a kidnapped girl. Å ›› “Smokin’ Aces” (2007, Action) Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia. Å USA Law Order: CI 100 Most Shocking Music Moments “Hour 2” ’ 100 Most Shocking Music Moments “Hour 3” (N) Tough Love The women are put on trial. ’ 100 Most Shocking Music Moments “Hour 3” ’ VH1 Music Moments CABLE NEWS Ultimate Fighting: Fistful of Dollars Biography on CNBC “Richard Branson” Inside the Mind of Google Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN CNN Tonight (N) Interviews With Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer; Clarence Thomas. Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. 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The Daily 10 (N) The Girls Next Door The Girls Next Door › “The Sweetest Thing” (2002, Romance-Comedy) Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair. Chelsea Lately (N) Chelsea Lately ●College Football Chick-fil-A Bowl -- Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech. From Atlanta. (Live) ●New Year, No Limits From Las Vegas. (Live) ●College Basketball St. John’s at Georgetown. (Live) ●College Basketball Oklahoma at Gonzaga. (Live) College Basketball Funniest Home Videos America’s Funniest Home Videos Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å Next Food Star The Next Food Network Star “Miami Up All Night” The Next Food Network Star The Next Food Network Star “VIP Party in Miami” The Next Food Network Star “Finale” ●Best Damn Hooters Pageant Period 2009 (N) ●ACC All-Access ●The Final Score (Live) ●Poker2Nite ●The Final Score (Live) College Basketball Best Damn Hooters Uncovered “2009” Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ›› “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006) Voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo. Animated. Melting ice threatens Manny and friends. ›› “Night at the Museum” (2006, Comedy) Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino. Life After Film School ››› “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet” (1996, Romance) Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy. Å ››› “Wall Street” (1987, Drama) Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen. Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å “The Christmas Card” “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (2008, Drama) Henry Winkler, Brooke Burns, Warren Christie. A › “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (1998, Comedy) Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna. A HALL (2006) Ed Asner. Å snowbound stranger brightens a family’s holidays. Å student in a Santa suit tries to get home for Christmas. Å True Blood “To Love Is to Bury” ’ Å True Blood Jason finds a new calling. ’ Å Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Part 3 HBO Rebels With Cause: AFL True Blood Sam shares a secret with Sookie. Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Å H&G House Hunters Gangland “Machete Gangland “Crazy Killers” The South Side Locos of Ok- Gangland “Circle of Death” The Aryan Circle gang ter- Gangland “Skinhead Assault” The Volksfront neo-Nazi Strange Rituals “Forbidden Sex” The Vestal Virgins of HIST Slaughter” Å lahoma City. Å rorizes Texas. Å gang. Å ancient Rome. (N) Å Movie Movie LIFE Movie ››› “Spider-Man” (2002) Tobey Maguire. Peter Parker battles his archenemy, the Green Goblin. Å ››› “Wanted” (2008) James McAvoy. An office drone becomes part of a secret society of assassins. MAX ››› Gran Torino ‘R’ The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler Å The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler Å Mission for Mussolini ’ Å The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler Å MILIT American Arsenal Å Jersey Shore A fight erupts at the bar. ’ Å Jersey Shore United housemates. (N) ’ Å New Year’s Eve: Top 9 of 2009 (N) ’ MTV Gone in Sixty Seconds Top 10 Performances (N) South Park ’ Å Dog Whisperer “Baby Girl” Dog Whisperer “Hyde & Vada and Nacho” Hard Time “Breakout” Two inmates escape. Dog Whisperer “Baby Girl” NGEO Dog Whisperer Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants Glenn Martin, DDS Å SCIENCE How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ Edwin San Juan’s Pacific Rim Comedy (iTV) (N) Maz Jobrani: Brown & Friendly (iTV) (N) ’ Goin’ Native: The Indian Comedy Slam (iTV) Comics perform. (N) Shaq. O’Neal SHOW › August (2008) ‘R’ All My Children Wednesday ’ Å One Life to Live Wednesday ’ Å General Hospital Wednesday ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●Barrett-Jackson Automobile Auction SPEED ●Barrett-Jackson Automobile Auction ●TNA Wrestling TNA superstars battle for championship gold. (N) ’ (Part 2 of 2) Å ››› “Jet Li’s Fearless” (2006, Action) Jet Li. ’ SPIKE ●TNA Wrestling TNA superstars battle for championship gold. (N) Å ●FIGHTZONE Presents ●ACC All-Access Future Phenoms SPSO ●FIGHTZONE Presents ●FIGHTZONE Presents The Twilight Zone Å The Twilight Zone Å The Twilight Zone Astronauts land in wilderness. The Twilight Zone Å The Twilight Zone Å The Twilight Zone Å The Twilight Zone Å SYFY The Twilight Zone Å 36 Yrs God’s Miracles Dr. David Jeremiah Å Winning With Wisdom This Is Your Day Å › “Left Behind: World at War” (2000, Suspense) Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Janaya Stephens. TBN The Cross Å My Name Is Earl “Pilot” My Name Is Earl Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Lopez Tonight TBS My Name Is Earl Å ›››› “Rear Window” ›››› “The Thin Man” (1934, Comedy-Drama) William Powell, Myrna Loy. Nick ››› “After the Thin Man” (1936, Comedy-Drama) William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart. Married sleuths ››› “Another Thin Man” TCM (1954) Å and Nora Charles solve a mystery with their dog, Asta. Å (DVS) search for their cousin’s missing husband. Å (1939) Å Forbidden Love: Polygamy ’ Å Anatomy of Sex Attraction and mating. ’ Å Strange Sex ’ Å Forbidden Love: Polygamy ’ Å TLC Three Wives ●NBA Basketball Miami Heat at San Antonio Spurs. From the AT&T Center in San Antonio. (Live) Å ●NBA Basketball Philadelphia 76ers at Los Angeles Clippers. From Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Live) Å
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King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å Burn Notice Barry enlists Michael’s help. Å 2009: That Really Happened ’
10 Years in the Making (N) American Greed American Greed All the Best, All the Worst of 2009 (N) Larry King Live (N) Å All the Best, All the Worst of 2009 Interviews With Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia; Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Tonight From Washington Tonight From Washington The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å “Talhotblond:” (2009, Documentary) Witness to Jonestown The Jonestown massacre in Guyana.
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