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Jennifer Beals reprises her role in the sequel series “The L Word: Generation Q,” premiering Sunday on Showtime.
‘The L Word’ defines itself anew with Showtime sequel series BY JAY BOBBIN
Years later, can a groundbreaking series break more ground? The makers of “The L Word” hope so. Many of those involved in the original 2004-09 show – one of the first to showcase lesbian characters – return for the new Showtime sequel “The L Word: Generation Q,” premiering Sunday, Dec. 8. Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey and Katherine Moennig (the latter seen since on Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”) reprise their roles and are executive producers of the new project, along with alsoreturning series creator Ilene Chaiken (“Empire”). While the continuing characters continue to face personal and professional challenges in presentday Los Angeles, so do new figures played by Arienne Mandi, Leo Sheng, Jacqueline Toboni, Rosanny Zayas and Sepideh Moafi. Fortune Feimster and Olivia Thirlby are among guest stars. “The world has changed a lot in these ten years,” Chaiken reflects, “and lesbians still belong
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on television. We’re telling the stories about what’s happened in those ten years, where we are now, and where we’re headed. The feeling was mounting that we should bring the show back, and in addition to the things that we wanted to address, the world of these characters was beloved.” “I think what’s interesting about this iteration of the show,” adds Beals, who plays Bette Porter as a mayoral candidate now, “is that we’ve expanded the discussion about sexuality and gender identification. When we were starting the show, nonbinary was a mathematical term, and we’re able in this new iteration of the show to talk about all the other ways that we now talk about gender identity and sexuality.” Fellow executive producer and showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan came to the new “L Word” as a fan of the original, which she cites as “an aspirational queer narrative where we got to see these people looking as amazing as they do, having
incredible jobs and sophisticated friendships and sophisticated romantic relationships. I could then move in the world and understand how to be. There’s so much nuance; every relationship is different, every pairing is different. I hope this show can go on forever, just weaving in and out of people’s lives and really getting to the heart of who they are.” Still renowned several decades later for her star-making “Flashdance” performance, Beals maintains “The L Word” remains a vessel for understanding. “Everybody wants to find love, everybody wants to find happiness,” she reasons. “I think storytelling can give you an affinity for the characters. They can have you feel compassion and empathy, and you want this character to be with that character. And you don’t care if it’s two women, two men or whatever. Love is love, and it’s an energy that’s not defined by gender or sexual preference.”
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What’s New NOW On December 8 “Margaret Atwood: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power”
December 8 “Movie: Atlantics”
A Grand Prix Award winner at Cannes this year, this drama follows a construction worker who flees his native Senegal for a better life, leaving his true love — who has been promised to another — behind. Mati Diop (“A Thousand Suns”) directed a largely Senegalese cast. (ORIGINAL) Premiere
The Canadian poet and author responsible for such works as “Cat’s Eye” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” discusses her life and her work in this 2019 documentary from directors Nancy Lang (“Where the Universe Sings”) and Peter Raymont (“The Border”).
“Three Days of Christmas”
From Spain comes this drama miniseries that captures four sisters as they celebrate Christmas in their family home at three times in their lives: teens, adulthood and old age. Victoria Abril, Elena Anaya, Mar Ayala and Nerea Barros star for producer/director Pau Freixas (“The Red Band Society”). (ORIGINAL)
“Movie: The Biggest Little Farm”
December 9 “Family Reunion”
The fish-out-of-water McKellen clan is back to spread holiday cheer in this special Christmas episode about the importance of family, forgiveness and empathy. Loretta Devine, Tia MowryHardrict, Anthony Alabi and Talia Jackson are among the stars. (ORIGINAL) New
John Chester chronicled his own journey with this 2018 documentary that follows him and wife Molly as they chuck the city life in favor of buying and running a farm outside of Los Angeles, complete with all the lessons they learned along the way about the planet, life and their cycles.
“Movie: Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story” Jon Strong wrote and directed this superb 2017 documentary about two groups of Florida Little Leaguers — an all-white team from Orlando and an all-black squad from Pensacola — who took to the field for a playoff game in an act of cultural defiance in the racially segregated South of 1955.
December 13 “Movie: 6 Underground”
Six untraceable agents whose pasts have been totally buried fight crime and injustice under the direction of an enigmatic leader (Ryan Reynolds) in this action movie fro`m director/ producer Michael Bay (“Pearl Harbor”). Adria Arjona, Melanie Laurent and Ben Hardy also star. (ORIGINAL) Premiere
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The transition of power from Pope Benedict to Pope Francis is recalled in intimate fashion in this drama movie from director Fernando Meirelles (“City of God”). Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce head the cast. (ORIGINAL)
An up-and-coming figure skater must face down her many personal demons to achieve her dreams in this drama series that stars January Jones, David James Elliott and Will Kemp. (ORIGINAL)
“You” (Dec. 26)
From writer-director Jeremy Saulnier (“Green Room”) comes this thriller series that explores systemic American injustices through action sequences, suspense and dark humor. “Star Wars” John Boyega is among those in the cast. (ORIGINAL)
This drama series about a crafty bookstore manager who uses his internet know-how to insert himself into the life of a woman he’s become obsessed with moves from Lifetime to Netflix for its second season. Penn Badgley and Elizabeth Lail star. (ORIGINAL)
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Jeff Bridges is the title character in question, a retired CIA officer living off target of an assassin in this Hulu/FX-produced drama series. (ORIGINAL)
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A mysterious being (Robert Davi, “The Iceman”) serves up college students to an ancient pig-like beast after making a deal to grant their wishes in this 2019 horror movie from director John Lechago (“Feast of Fear”). Clint Howard (“Apollo 13”), Sinn Bodhi (“Star Trek: Renegade”) and John Karyus (“Night Pulse”) also star.
“Movie: Kensho at the Bedfellow”
Brad Raider (“Santa Clarita Diet”) wrote, directed and stars in this low-budget though enjoyable 2017 independent drama about a oncepromising playwright who toils at a quirky hotel filled with eccentrics who help distract him from his true passion, writing. Kathryn Erbe (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”), Mara Davi (“Smash”) and Dana Ashbrook (“Twin Peaks”) are some of the more familiar names in the cast.
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December 13 “The Expanse”
A new chapter begins as the crew of the Rocinante embark on a mission from the U.N. to explore new worlds beyond the Ring Gate, as the former Syfy series moves over to Amazon for its fourth season. Chad Allen, Cas Anvar, Steven Strait and Frankie Adams are among cast returnees. (ORIGINAL) Season Premiere
“Movie: Valiant”
From director Cruz Angeles (“30 for 30: Fernando Nation,” “Don’t Let Me Drown”) comes this powerful documentary that tells of how the Vegas Golden Knights — Las Vegas’ first professional team — helped bring a city together in the wake of the Oct. 2017 mass shooting on the Strip. (ORIGINAL) Premiere
COMING SOON “The Peripheral” (date TBA)
This series adaptation of the William Gibson novel follows the story of a woman trying to hold together her broken family in a forgotten corner of America’s future. (ORIGINAL)
“Event Horizon” series (date TBA)
Amazon and Paramount Television are developing a series adaptation of the 1997 scifi horror film “Event Horizon,” about a deepspace vehicle that went to an evil dimension and returned with mind-warping powers. Adam Wingard (“Blair Witch”) will serve as executive producer and director. (ORIGINAL)
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Emma Thompson’s Top 10 Movies BY JAY BOBBIN
“Late Night” (2019):
Thompson recently took on the world of television talk shows in this comedy-drama about a veteran host pressed to add a woman (Mindy Kaling) to her allmale writers’ room.
“Saving Mr. Banks” (2013): Capturing the
choosiness of P.L. Travers ideally, Thompson depicts the “Mary Poppins” author’s complex dealings with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks).
“Nanny McPhee” (2005):
In one of her most distinctive examples of character work to date, Thompson has the title role as a governess with an extra something that lets her rein in rowdy young charges.
“Love Actually” (2003):
Thompson is great in one of this popular comedy-drama’s many subplots, playing a devoted wife and mother who discovers her husband’s (Alan Rickman) holidayseason infidelity.
Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding
“Primary Colors” (1998):
Especially not being American, Thompson does terrific work as a U.S. political wife trying to deal stoically with a scandal that enmeshes her presidency-seeking husband (John Travolta).
MOVIE REVIEW
“The Winter Guest” (1997): Alan Rickman directed
and co-wrote this fine adaptation of a play about a widow (Thompson) whose visiting mother (Phyllida Law, Thompson’s own mom) makes her debate some of her own decisions.
“Sense and Sensibility” (1995): Also the writer of the
screenplay for this version of the Jane Austen classic, Thompson is a star of the tale of how financial difficulties impact the romantic lives of several female relatives.
“The Remains of the Day” (1993): Thompson
and Anthony Hopkins make a wonderful team as British estate servants of very different demeanors and degrees of selfexpression.
“Howards End” (1992):
Thompson’s early movie cred got a big boost from the MerchantIvory telling of E.M. Forster’s novel about three distinct social classes in early-20th-century England.
“Dead Again” (1991):
Directed by her then-husband Kenneth Branagh here, Thompson also stars with him in this mystery about a woman whose loss of memory could prove lethal.
BY JAY BOBBIN
‘Last Christmas’ isn’t the best Christmas The performer who fares best in “Last Christmas” is George Michael. Seriously.
hang around her for as long as he does.
As the title might indicate, the late singer’s music is pivotal to what is meant to be a charming comedydrama. His tunes manage to emerge untainted from what otherwise is a pretty sensational misfire, trying to stand favorably alongside the sorts of British films that writer-director Richard Curtis does so well, such as “Love Actually” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”
He’s the means for her becoming a better and more purposeful person, even reconnecting with her emigrant relatives – including her mother, played by Emma Thompson, who also cowrote the script. Of course, she was in “Love Actually,” but her efforts to channel filmmaker Curtis are too obvious and heavy-handed. That also doesn’t help the director here. Paul Feig of “Bridesmaids” fame.
Emilia Clarke of “Game of Thrones” fame is much more modern and much less controlled than on that series as a woman who’s basically a wreck ... an aspiring actress estranged from her family and alienating her friends in the course of working at a year-round Christmas shop. Luckily for her, a dashing fellow takes an interest in her; he’s played by Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “A Simple Favor”) and only in a movie like this would he
The ads for “Last Christmas” did a big job of trying to sell it as another “Love Actually,” but it’s far from that. That’s especially a disappointment coming from the multitalented Thompson, who initially worked with her husband Greg Wise to craft a tale from the basics of the long-popular title song. Whether or not it was an afterthought to add more of George Michael’s catalog to the soundtrack, that’s ultimately how the movie
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works best, as a Michael hit machine ... but that’s not really why the film exists. Or, at least, shouldn’t have been. Clarke and Golding both are engaging talents, and ideally, this picture should have done a lot for their profiles – particularly Clarke, as she comes off the television run that made her rather iconic to a large audience. For her, here’s hoping for better luck next time. (Also notable in the cast: Michelle Yeoh, alias Golding’s mom in “Crazy Rich Asians.”) It’s notoriously tough to make a successful and enduring movie about the holidays, though even the failed ones tend to stick around year after year. “Last Christmas” is the latest of those, and it very likely won’t be the last.
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Horoscopes Event Calendar WEEK OF DECEMBER 8 TO 14, 2019
THE LUCKIEST SIGNS THIS WEEK: LEO, VIRGO AND LIBRA
ARIES
You may get your hands on a nice sum of money and use it to spoil yourself. You’ll get the green light to finance a project, either purchasing a property or starting your own business.
TAURUS
You’re already organizing all holiday celebrations and you’ll succeed in bringing the people you’re closest to together. You’ll also have lots of inspiration to create something of your own. An activity with friends will prove very exciting.
GEMINI
The artist inside you will awaken in a spectacular way. You’re a dreamer and you need to take note of your ideas if you want to make them happen. Otherwise, you’ll forget them.
CANCER
Your social life will be at the forefront. You’ll receive one invitation after another and you’ll accept happily, even if you feel like you’re burning the candle at both ends. After this, you’ll need some rest.
LEO
If you’re pulling out all the stops for your holiday celebrations this year, there’s lots of planning to do. Time will be scarce, but in the end, everything will be a success. In your love life, it’s the little things that will guarantee your relationship lasts.
VIRGO
You’ll want to leave your nest to discover new things. You’ll decide to celebrate the holidays under the tropical sun or add an exotic flair to your traditional holiday meal.
LIBRA
You’ll be moved by a visit from a family member you don’t see often but is very important to you. You’ll spare no expense to welcome this person into your home.
SCORPIO
It’s easy to get along with you. You’re not afraid of hard work and you’ll gladly agree to start preparing some dishes for the next few celebrations. You’ll be needed to settle a family conflict.
SAGITTARIUS
You’ll find yourself filling in for the boss while they take a muchneeded vacation. This will have a positive impact on your career in the long term. If affection is missing from your relationship, your feelings will also disappear.
CAPRICORN
For one reason or another, you’ll be the focus of everyone’s attention. It’s possible that you’ll save someone simply by listening attentively. This person will certainly appreciate you.
AQUARIUS
You’ll spare no expense when it comes to gifts and celebrating those closest to you. Your extraordinary generosity will bring you a sense of well-being. A family project will need careful thought.
PISCES
It’s not easy to make time for your social life when your work is so demanding. You need to let loose, so don’t hesitate to accept invitations to go out and have fun with friends.
Sumter Christmas Parade
Sunday, December 8, 2019 2:00pm to 3:30pm Sponsored by the Evening Optimist Club of Sumter. The parade will run along on Main Street in Sumter, starting at Church Street and head South to corner of Bartlette Street at CCTC Health Sciences Center. Line up at 1 PM in the Riley Park area.
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Through Friday, January 10, 2020 All Day Exhibition Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 5pm Sunday – Monday, closed www.sumtergallery.com
Fantasy of Lights
Through December 31, 2019 All Day Sunday - Thursday Dusk to 9 p.m. Friday & Saturday Dusk to 10 p.m. The young and old alike will marvel at this spectacular display of lighted imagery as Swan Lake Iris Gardens glitters with thousands of twinkling lights. A train’s wheels spin, swans take flight pulling Santa’s sleigh and angels blink with the breathtaking array of colored splendor as you drive through one of the state’s largest holiday light displays. Free admission. ***Please note that there is a new driving route this year, due to construction at the main entrance, most of the display will be along Garden Street and around the Heath Pavilion.
A Tuna Christmas
December 12 - 15 & 19 - 22, 2019 Thursday-Saturday: 8:00 pm, Sundays: 3 pm $20 adults, $15 student/senior/military Come celebrate the Yuletide season with Tuna, Texas OKKK radio personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie. Watch them throw some tinsel on “everything that ain’t movin and some things that is.” And find out who won the Christmas lawn decorating contest this year in Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas. Laugh the holiday season in with this Christmas crowd pleaser! Visit http://www.sumterlittletheatre.com
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DECEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 13, 2019
Eat, Drink & Be Ugly: Ugly Christmas Sweater and Beer Tasting
Thursday, December 12, 2019 6:00pm to 9:00pm This event will be located downtown Sumter, where you can enjoy the holiday season’s decorations as you travel from location to location sampling various types of 5 oz beer pours. Compete and see if you can win the title of Ugliest Christmas Sweater of 2019. Beer glasses will be given out at registration to the first 140 to register. Tickets are $30 for general attendees, $20 for Sober Santa’s, and $20 for current YPS members. Wristbands will be provided accordingly. For more information and to register in advance, visit Must be 21+ to drink alcohol.
Santa’s Village
December 13 - December 14, 2019 6:00pm to 8:00pm Santa’s Village is located at the Heath Pavilion, kids can write letters to Santa and take pictures with Santa using your own camera (participation in both are free), while sipping hot cocoa and enjoying the music and entertainment for the night. For more information call the Sumter Convention & Visitors Bureau at (803) 436-2640
Second Saturday: Holiday Ceramics
Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 9:00am (Ages 4-12) - Holiday Ceramics Our last Second Saturday of the year is the perfect occasion for your little ones to create unique ceramics. Just in time for the holidays, your kids will be able to craft several goodies for family and friends! More info at https://sumtergallery.com.
Carolina Backcountry Christmas
Saturday, December 14, 2019 2:00pm to 4:00pm Sumter County Museum invites guests to partake in spiced cider, cookies, cakes and other refreshments while enjoying the settler’s cabin decorated for the season with locally grown greenery accented with the bright colors of apples, oranges and lemons. With chestnuts roasting and dulcimers playing, this is truly a back country Christmas. Visit the Sumter County Museum for more info. BY JAY BOBBIN
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Quentin Tarantino makes relatively few movies, so when he does, you can expect that you’re in for something unique. This surely is a prime example, a lengthy and rewarding whirlwind of late-1960s pop culture as seen largely through the eyes of a has-been television Western star and his former stunt double. In those roles respectively, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt bring all the watchability they’re known for, helpful as they play a couple of pals who live on society’s fringe – a lifestyle that puts them on a course to meet Charles Manson, and the movie then takes an off-ramp into an exploration of one of the 20th century’s most infamous cults and heinous crimes. Entertainment connoisseur Tarantino vividly satisfies his nostalgic passions by revisiting them in his own way, and if you have a soft spot for TV’s “The Green Hornet” or Dean Martin‘s Matt Helm movies, you’ll find nods to them (the latter because the last of those spy adventures involved actress Sharon Tate, played here by Margot Robbie). The parade of featured stars also includes Al Pacino, Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, and Luke Perry in what turned out to be one of his final roles – and if you’re a devotee of the pop music of the ‘60s, you’ll appreciate how Tarantino chose his soundtrack. DVD extras: deleted scenes. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) little doubt who you’ll remember the most from it. Also a producer of What “It” is, this time, is about three the fact-based tale, Jennifer Lopez hours long ... which is maybe about gives herself a terrific role as the an hour longer than it needs to be. ringleader of a group of strippers This sequel anticipates the desire who come up with a scheme to profit for more by viewers who made the quite beautifully from practicing their movie of Stephen King’s novel such a profession. It has to do with bilking huge box-office hit a couple of years the wealthy men they coerce, but this ago, but there’s a difference between also is a story of true sisterhood and “more” and “too much.” In part, of surviving tough financial times, the length is to service the excellent especially when you’re a single parent young cast from the first movie that who also has to fend for your child. reappears in flashbacks, plus biggerConstance Wu (“Fresh Off the Boat”) named stars who come aboard as their plays a newcomer to the group; Lili older incarnations. Jessica Chastain, Reinhart of “Riverdale” also is on James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Jay board, as is Keke Palmer, who’s now a Ryan (“Beauty and the Beast”) are in daytime talk-show co-host as part of the new group; collectively, they don’t “Strahan & Sara & Keke.” Julia Stiles achieve the same repartee as their appears as the reporter who wrote younger counterparts, but Hader is a the story that inspired the movie, standout on a singular basis here. Of written and directed by actress turned course, the terrifying clown Pennywise filmmaker Lorene Scafaria, but it’s (returnee Bill Skarsgard) is still around, Lopez who really sells the picture by prompting a years-later reunion of the displaying a wise and natural expertise friends who have to revisit fears they that really is a treat to watch. ››› (R: thought they’d long left behind. In a AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Stephen King story? Who’s kidding Demand) who? King fans should be satisfied, “THE LOUDEST VOICE” but by the time this reaches its loud and expected climax, you might feel It’s not the only dramatization of like you’ve been through chapters troubles that wracked Fox News in recent years, but the limited Showtime three and four, too. ››› (R: AS, P, V) series – based in Gabriel Sherman’s (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) best-selling account “The Loudest “HUSTLERS” Voice in the Room” – surely pours This drama boasts an impressive, on the star power, starting with Russell Crowe’s portrayal of the late principally female cast, but there’s
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Roger Ailes, who was the famously bombastic chief of the division at the time. Thanks to the project’s makeup team, the actor bears a stunning resemblance to the real-life Ailes, whose dealings with others such as news anchor Gretchen Carlson (played by Naomi Watts) and News Corporation titan Rupert Murdoch (Simon McBurney) are covered ... as are Ailes’ many political connections, which played into his professional life and the controversies ultimately generated by it. Sienna Miller, Seth MacFarlane, Annabelle Wallis and Josh Charles (“The Good Wife”) also are prominent in the cast. ››› (Not rated: AS, P)
“SUITS: SEASON NINE – THE FINAL SEASON” The USA Network law drama recently came to a close with episodes that found those in the New York firm on edge more than ever, thanks to the presence of a stern controller (Denise Crosby) with something to say – mostly to others’ displeasure – about every aspect of the operation. Harvey (Gabriel Macht) applies his wits to trying to oust her, but his mind also is on his advancing personal relationship with Donna (Sarah Rafferty), and also on an unexpected tragedy that throws him for a loop. Patrick J. Adams, who left the show at the same time as Meghan Markle (who had pressing
PLAYING WITH FIRE PG, 1 hr 36 min Comedy, Family
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL PG, 1 hr 58 min Action/Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Coming Home Soon
“DOWNTON ABBEY” (Dec. 17) “AD ASTRA” (Dec. 17) “FULLER HOUSE: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON” (Dec. 17) “RAMBO: LAST BLOOD” (Dec. 17) “JUDY” (Dec. 24) “BIG LITTLE LIES: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON” (Jan. 7) business in England), makes a return as Mike. Rick Hoffman, Amanda Schull, Dule Hill and Katherine Heigl also wrap up their roles; a “Complete Series” set is available. ››› (Not rated: AS, P)
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