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“Game of Thrones”
Premiering its fifth season Sunday on HBO. p3
“Voces”
Footage of James Dean in “Giant” is included in the fourth season premiere of “Voces” Friday on PBS. p 11
“The Messengers”
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Celebrity potlights Charles Esten
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“Nashville” on ABC.
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“The Lizzie Borden Chronicles” on Lifetime. p5
Emmy-winning actress.
Kevin Dunn Checking In. p8
Cedric The Entertainer Anthony Melchiorri “Cedric’s Barber Battle” on The CW. p6
Pictured: BULLFIGHTING JAMES DEAN Jun 01, 1955; Hollywood
“Hotel Impossible” on Travel Channel. p9
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Jon Snow
grows more cynical on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ By John Crook When Jon Snow (Kit Harington) first joined the Night’s Watch in Season 1 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” he did so as an idealistic, somewhat callow young man who saw the world in clearly defined black and white moral terms. As “Thrones” returns for its fifth season Sunday, April 12, however, the character has been dramatically changed by his two years (give or take) at Castle Black and his experiences in the wilderness of the North. Ygritte, the beautiful wildling who fell in love with Jon when he infiltrated her army, died in the huge battle at The Wall that capped Season 4, and Jon’s time with the wildling leader Mance Rayder (Ciarán Hinds) taught him that people often aren’t as they first appear. “When we first meet Jon (in Season 1), he is all about honor and duty,” explains Harington, 28. “It’s very clear to him who are the bad guys and the good guys. Where we find him this season is really interesting, because having spent time with who he thought were the bad guys – the wildlings, whom he now calls the Free Folk – he doesn’t really trust anyone who he maybe should trust as he would have done before.” That puts Jon in a decidedly awkward situation where his allegiances are concerned. The men of Castle Black were rescued at the eleventh hour by the army of Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane), head of the royal family once served by Jon’s father, Eddard “Ned” Stark. Stannis holds Rayder captive as the new season opens, yet Jon’s lingering respect for the latter leaves him conflicted as to where his loyalties should lie.
“Before, he would have gone into Stannis’ pocket straightaway, when they first met,” Harington says. “But now Jon is world-weary. He’s seen a lot of death, so now he sees shades of gray in people, which makes him more cautious and perhaps astute when it comes to dealing with what this world throws at him. I really think Jon is more cynical now, essentially. He knows what his duty is, he knows what he swore to, and that still is the core of him, because he’s a man of his word, like this father. But he is far more cynical about who he trusts and who he doesn’t.” He’s not allowed to reveal whether the new season finally will see Jon Snow venturing out of the North, but Harington says that if he does, Jon likely will return eventually to his homeland. “Throughout the season there are opportunities for him to leave,” Harington says. “The likely answer to that question (of whether he does leave) perhaps lies in how he has had a chance to do other things in the past rather than stay at Castle Black – and how he turned those opportunities down.” The actor says he’s very excited for fans to see the upcoming new episodes, although he has some advice for them: “Don’t get too attached to anyone.”
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CELEBRITY Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
CharlesEsten
‘Nashville’ on ABC
Christina Aguilera starts a multipleepisode guest arc on “Nashville” this Wednesday, April 15. What are your thoughts about her joining the show? Talk about verisimilitude or, as I call it, “stealing from the truth” when we’re playing this world of a pop diva who wants to come and be part of country. I don’t think we could have made a better choice. We’re real lucky to have her. Who are some other music stars you’ve met who have particularly impressed you? I did a Christmas show with Kelly Clarkson at (Nashville’s) Bridgestone Arena – her charity event, and she was kind enough to invite me to be a part of it. I’ve gotten to know her a little bit, and I have not heard a note that she cannot just shine with. Her voice blows me away. It’s not at the exclusion of anyone else, but she’s one of the most amazing singers I’ve heard. Though you’ve kept a home in California, as “Nashville” nears the end of its third season, do you feel like a resident of that city? Technically, I’m a resident of Tennessee now, and I have been for a little while. We just ended up selling our (West Coast) house, so we are full-on Nashvillians ... and my whole family has just fallen in love with this town and the special people they have here. It’s great to give back to a place that has given me everything. We miss all our friends back there, of course, but thank goodness for social media. The kids are able to stay in touch with their friends, and so are we.
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‘The Lizzie Borden Chronicles’ on Lifetime How would you characterize the relationship of sisters Lizzie and Emma Borden on Lifetime’s “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles”? I think it’s a very need-based relationship. Lizzie sort of views her as her property, and Emma’s always taken care of her but it’s not, at least from Lizzie’s point of view, a loving relationship. She’s not really capable of love in a normal way. Is Lizzie a fun character to play? Yeah, really fun. Anything that is fantastic and sort of extreme is really fun to do as an actor, at least for me. How did you approach creating her? Well, I think a lot of the character is based on the action, sort of, (which) implies who she is, really. Somebody who is able to take human life like this and actually derive pleasure from it is going to be a certain type of character (laughs). We definitely decided that she was sociopathic, that she either played at the emotions of a normal functioning person but that she probably didn’t have them for herself. Was shedding her at the end of the day difficult? No, not really. I mean, this is a very lighthearted kind of piece. I mean, it’s just supposed to be fun and sort of gory and fantastic. So I think there were like two emotional scenes in the whole series for my character because she doesn’t really experience emotion. So it’s not the kind of thing, a kind of heavy role where you go home and you live with it or are affected by it.
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CELEBRITY Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
Cedric The Entertainer of ‘Cedric’s Barber Battle’ on The CW
Where did the idea for “Cedric’s Barber Battle” (premiering Friday, April 17) come from? A barbershop is more than a place to get your hair cut, and that’s why I wanted to do this show. Any good barbershop is a man cave; if you don’t have the money for therapy, go to the barbershop and talk it out. Somebody’s going to be sitting there waiting on you. It is known to be said that guys will cheat on a wife before they cheat on a barber. A lot of people probably know the old-school barber like the guy on “The Andy Griffith Show” (Floyd), but nowadays, these guys have tattoos and earrings. Somebody’s got a Frisbee in his ear. They’re modern barbers, but they’re skilled, very great craftsmen. We wanted to go inside that world of these (people) who can do not only great haircuts, but great artistry. They can do portraits of celebrities as well as landscapes. From “The Soul Man” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” to movies and standup, what has kept you so active in your career in recent years? I really feel it’s about trying to stay steady. It’s trying to stay as busy as possible, and there’s a degree of likability I feel that I have ... where people find themselves feeling like they know me already. There’s a calm easiness about my “brand” that’s pretty acceptable. You can allow me the opportunity to say what it is that I have to say – and I will make you laugh. I’m thankful and blessed to still be doing this after 20 years, but you’ve got to stay busy and you’ve got to stay humble. And you’ve got to stay aggressive.
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Baker was nearly a baker before acting came calling Many a young American woman goes through a Paris phase. For Emmy-winning actress Kathy Baker, that came in the late 1970s after she’d graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a degree in French. Although acting was her first love, she decided she needed a fallback, so she attended Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in the French capital with the ultimate goal of becoming a pastry chef. “I was going to stay in Paris for six weeks and I stayed for two years,” recalls Baker, laughing. “And I ended up getting Le Grande Diplome at the Cordon Bleu and I did a play there and I catered and I made wedding cakes. And I just, you know, fooled around trying to find myself but I always wanted to be an actress.” “As soon as I came home from Paris with a Grande Diplome in my hand,” she continues, “I go straight to an audition at the Magic Theatre (in San Francisco) and I just did 10 plays in a row, Sam Shepard plays. I go to New York with a play. I mean, I didn’t last very long as a culinary person.” These days, the co-star of Comedy Central’s Wednesday sitcom “Big Time in Hollywood, FL” is content to cook only for family and friends, though she says she did take one useful skill from her time in Paris. “I think the best thing I took from that is I can read a recipe and decide if it’s a good one,” says the actress, who stars with Blake Lively and Harrison Ford in “The Age of Adaline,” due for release later this month, “and I can make it and then I just also adjust the recipe to whatever I want to do. But I am in no way a professional cook. I’m a home cook and I’m competent in the kitchen but there’s no way that you would hire me professionally.” What is your favorite book? “I have my all-time favorite book, which is ‘How Green Was My Valley.’ And then I have, of course, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Everybody says that these days. But right now, I read a couple of wonderful books. ‘The Paying Guests’ is a wonderful new book I read. I love ‘The Gold Finch.’ I loved ‘The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace.’ ... I just have a million favorites.” What is your favorite movie? “ ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’ ” What is your favorite musical artist? “(Laughs) I’m not very educated in music. ... My favorite musical artist is like whatever someone else is listening to right now and I go, ‘Oh, what’s that? I love that.’ ... If I’m having a dinner party, we put on ‘60s dance music or something in the background. And then we did a sort of Latin jazz kind of thing. Yeah, I’m not a popular music girl.”
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CELEBRITY George Dickie's Celebrity ScooP
KevinDunn
Stories are many of physicians, business executives or even tradespeople who turn to painting landscapes or writing the great American novel as a creative outlet or to alleviate burnout from their chosen career. But what if you’re already in a creative line of work? If you’re Kevin Dunn, who plays chronically downcast White House Chief of Staff Ben Caffrey to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ President Selina Meyer on HBO’s comedy “Veep,” premiering its fourth season, Sunday, April 12, you do home improvement.
“Good therapy,” says the affable actor from his Los Angeles home. “That’s what I’m doing right now. I’m putting closets in the basement. ... And it gets your mind off of ‘Oh, I gotta get a job.’ Because you get started and you get working on stuff and you forget the panic of not working.” Getting work is something the 58-year-old Chicagoan hasn’t had to worry about of late, at least since joining the cast of the Emmy-winning sitcom two years ago. As a character actor, he’s as familiar a face as you’ll find these days, starting in 1987 with his TV debut on the short-lived ABC drama “Jack and Mike” and moving onto guest-starring turns on “Seinfeld,” “Roseanne,” “Family Ties” and “Day by Day” (where he first worked with Louis-Dreyfus), and regular roles on “Bette,” “Samantha Who?” and “Luck.” In film, he’s proudest of his work in “Mississippi Burning” (1988), “1492: Conquest of Paradise” (1992), “Dave” (1993)“ and ”Stir of Echoes“ (1999), which was filmed in the Windy City. And when he’s not working on “Veep” or finishing his basement, Dunn can be found rooting for Chicago sports teams, especially the Cubs. “We’re loyal fans but not readily committed to admitting to be loyal fans,” he says, laughing, adding that he’s “sentenced to be a Cubs fan, Bears fan, Blackhawks fan, Bulls fan.” Date of birth: Aug. 24, 1956 Birthplace: Chicago Education: Graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in theater Family: Has one child with wife Katina, a journalist; sister is former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Nora Dunn Other TV credits: “Cheers,” “L.A. Law,” “21 Jump Street,” “JAG,” “The Practice,” Page 8 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote April 12 - 18, 2015
“Boomtown,” “Boston Public,” “Huff,” “Law & Order,” “7th Heaven,” “Lost,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Boston Legal,” “Harry’s Law,” “True Detective” Other movie credits: “Ghostbusters II” (1989), “Only the Lonely” (1991), “Chaplin” (1992), “Nixon” (1995), “I Heart Huckabees” (2004), “Transformers” (2007), “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008), “Jobs” (2013), “Draft Day” (2014) Did you know?: Dunn was considered for the role of George Costanza – which ultimately went to Jason Alexander – on “Seinfeld”
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Anthony M e l chiorri of “Hotel Impossible” on the Travel Channel
- Melchiorri has been in the hospitality business for 20 years. - He served for five years as a protocol officer in the U.S Air Force. He currently resides in New York with his wife and three children. - Melchiorri was put on the fast track to success early on at the landmark Plaza Hotel as director of front office operations. - By the age of 29, Melchiorri became a seasoned professional and was selected to be general manager of the Lucerne Hotel in 1997. Under Melchiorri’s management, the Lucerne was developed into one of the top ranking hotels in New York City, and selected as the New York Times Travel Guide’s Best Service Hotel. - Melchiorri has developed and repositioned some of the finest and most high profile properties in the United States including the first Nickelodeon Hotel and Resort and the landmark Algonquin Hotel. He takes on clients in need of development or immediate re-positioning, applies his experience and ability to assemble teams specialized in hotel management, and adds value for the owners and developers to ultimately increase their bottom line. - Melchiorri brings his expertise as the “hotel fixer” to Travel Channel’s original series “Hotel Impossible.” In this weekly onehour program, he helps turn around the business of a struggling hotel fighting to survive. - As senior vice president of New York Hotel Management Company, Melchiorri helped develop a 310 all-suite hotel in Times Square overseeing construction, design, pre-opening, opening and post-opening operations. - In addition to being the host and lead in Travel Channel’s “Hotel Impossible,” he also runs his own company, Argeo Hospitality, consulting on hotel projects for private owners and investors. Argeo Hospitality has the ability to create a plan, market and promote a company, and turn its staff into a welloiled machine.
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CELEBRITY Celebs’ favorite shows
Ken Burns
Jeremy Sisto
Josh Gad
Jesse Lee Soffer
Set the DVR Ken Burns of “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies” on PBS “I record things like news that I know I’m going to miss if I’m out. I record sports that I’m going to miss. But now with Netflix, I’m sort of down to that. The stuff I’m interested in I watch so little because I am working all the time. You know, my kids use it all the time to record their shows ... . I’m mainly a digester of what’s happening now and I’m a digester of stuff I can’t get on Netflix.”
Josh Gad of “The Comedians” on FX “My DVR is full of shows I love watching. For comedy, it starts with ‘Louie’; I admire what he’s doing so much. I also love ‘Silicon Valley,’ ‘Veep,’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine.’ And in terms of other shows, I love ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I absolutely live for shows like ‘Fargo’ and ‘True Detective’ and ‘The Americans.’ There’s so much good TV, you can’t keep up with it all.”
Jeremy Sisto of “The Returned” on A&E Network Jesse Lee Soffer of “Chicago PD” on NBC “I just started ‘Silicon Valley.’ It’s cool; I like it. It’s funny “I’m really into ‘Ray Donovan,’ and that’s about it. And ‘The when you’re in the business of storytelling and still, you get Wire.”’ hooked on these devices that are pretty simple. You create a bad guy and make him want what your good guy wants, and yet, you’re still wrapped up in it in an emotional way. It always says a lot about a show when it can do that.” Page 10 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote April 12 - 18, 2015
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recalls a ‘Giant’ movie By Jay Bobbin
One of the major movies of 1956 truly was “Giant,” in many ways – particularly for the residents of Marfa, Texas. Director George Stevens earned his second Oscar in bringing a cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and (in what would be his final film) James Dean to the town to make the sweeping version of Edna Ferber’s novel, which dealt in part with Mexican-American relations. Stevens’ producer-director son, George Jr., and others discuss the impact of the filming on all concerned in filmmaker Hector Galan’s documentary “Children of Giant,” the first Season 4 offering of PBS’ Latino arts and culture series “Voces” Friday, April 17 (check local listings). “It gave a lot of (local) people employment,” recalls Stevens Jr., an assistant to his father on the Warner Bros. picture, “and of course, it filled the hotels, and many of the cast and crew stayed in people’s houses. My father had this notion that he really wanted the town to be part of the picture, and it was an open set. The people from town, if they wanted to come out and watch shooting, they were welcome. So from my perspective, it was a wonderful place to make that film, and I’m sure it informed the film with some of the spirit of the people who lived there.” Shown often on Turner Classic Movies, “Giant” weaves the saga of wealthy Texas rancher Bick Benedict (Hudson), his
wife Leslie (Taylor) and maverick ranch hand – and later oil tycoon – Jett Rink (Dean). Mexican actress Elsa Cardenas made her Hollywood debut as Juana, who married into the Benedict family; also featured in “Children of Giant,” she was present when word came of Dean’s car-accident death on Sept. 30, 1955. “The phone rang, and Mr. Stevens answered the phone,” she says. “The lights were off, and he told us what had happened. It was around 7:00 (p.m.), and it was horrible news for us. Elizabeth was very sentimental and she started crying. All of us, we were very, very upset. The next day, we were all like we didn’t want to talk. We didn’t want to say anything.” Also in both “Giant” and “Children of Giant” is veteran actor Earl Holliman (“Police Woman”), whose character Bob Dace also joined the Benedict clan via marriage. He expresses pride for having been in the film, and also for being part of an atmosphere that was “always mixed” in ethnic terms. “It was always Mexican, always American,” he notes. “Everybody was laughing. It was like the circus had come to town. It was a festival for all the time I was there. It was glorious, what was happening in Marfa.”
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The devil made them do it
“The Messengers” premieres Friday on The CW. Story on next page
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high-school student Peter Moore; JD Pardo (“Revolution”) as Raul Garcia, a federal agent looking to escape his assignment in a violent Mexican drug cartel; and Jon Fletcher (“City of Dreams”) as Joshua Silburn Jr., a charismatic televangelist who posits that the apocalypse is under way.
is nigh on The CW’s ‘The Messengers’
That idea is bolstered by the presence of a mysterious figure known only as The Man, who offers Vera to be reunited with her kidnapped son in return for her help with one morally complicated task. As we come to find out, it is a deal with the devil – literally. In creating the fallen angel Lucifer, Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado says he tried to get away from the Bible’s graphic interpretation and instead make him more human. “We try to excuse him more and give him a background that will lead you to why he does what he does ...,” explains Morgado, who ironically enough has played Jesus Christ in “Son of God” and the History miniseries “The Bible.” “So for me, it was more about using and abusing the tools that we have as humans that we understand, like manipulation, sarcasm and having this big smile when somebody really wants to stab you in the back.
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By George Dickie
A meteor streaks down from the heavens and crashes to Earth, the resulting shock wave temporarily stopping the hearts of five disparate strangers. When they re-awaken, they find themselves inexplicably imbued with extraordinary gifts ranging from superhuman strength to the ability to heal. They’re now connected as the five Angels of the Apocalypse, and they may be the only hope for preventing the impending Rapture or end of the world, as prophesied in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. That’s the storyline of The CW’s intriguing and visually striking new sci-fi drama series “The Messengers,” premiering Friday, April 17. Filmed in the New Mexico desert, it stars as the five strangers Shantel VanSanten (“Gang Related”) as scientist Vera Buckley; Sofia Black-D’Elia (“Betrayal”) as abused young mother Erin Calder; Joel Courtney (“Super 8”) as bullied
“So all of that stuff that is common sense as being bad and manipulative,” he continues, “I used that but not in a demonic way. It’s more of a human thing because I think it’s more important to bring the idea of the evil that we know and we all can relate with every day than the supernatural evil.” As much a character in this end-of-times tale is the location of the New Mexico desert, which executive producer Trey Callaway says was chosen for its arid beauty and expansive vistas. “The pilot really creates this beautiful visual pallet,” Callaway says. “It’s been described as ‘Close Encounters’ meets ‘The Stand.’ You know, it’s got a really cinematic scope to it, and I think a lot of that is because of the beautiful, natural vistas of New Mexico. They don’t call it ‘The Land of Enchantment’ by accident. It really is a visually sumptuous place to shoot.”
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Clone Clone wars Tatiana Maslany stars in “Orphan Black,” premiering its third season Saturday on BBC America. Story on next page
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sends in the (male) clones By John Crook
Ari Millen
From its very first episode, BBC America’s “Orphan Black” has held fans spellbound with its complex and fantastic story of British con woman Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), who was stunned to discover the truth about her identity: She was one of many genetically identical women who were conceived via in vitro fertilization as part of a cover operation called Project Leda. As the story unfolded, three other clones – soccer mom Alison, brilliant microbiology student Cosima and unstable Ukrainian Helena, all played by Maslany – joined Sarah’s inner circle and helped her ward off any threats to their little “family.” The show’s writers, however, waited until the climax of Season 2 for their biggest reveal: the existence of similarly produced male clones created as part of a sinister companion program called Project Castor. As the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller returns for its third season, Saturday, April 18, we begin to meet more of these male clones, all of them played by Ari Millen. The actor had joined the cast earlier in Season 2 as Mark, a member of an eerie religious cult, but viewers didn’t know he was a clone at the time. At the end of that season, Helena was abducted by agents of Project Castor and kidnapped to parts unknown for purposes just as shadowy. “I can say that the clones are all in very disparate worlds right now,” Maslany says. “At the beginning of Season 3, there’s a real fractured element to the sisterhood. We don’t know exactly where Helena is, and Sarah has had this revelation about the Castor clones, and Alison is in her own little suburban world, while Cosima’s life hangs in the balance.”
Millen didn’t learn that Mark, his original character, was a clone until much later, at which point he began to study how Maslany handled the more highly technical scenes – including a Season 2 party scene in which Sarah, Alison, Cosima and Helena freely interacted. He was thrilled when he saw some footage of him sharing a scene with himself. “It was a little surreal, but it certainly made me very excited,” Millen says. “Until you see it, you don’t really know if it’s going to work. You’re in the dark, and I would think, ‘Are these guys going to look like different people? Is it really going to translate?’ But it’s just a really cool experience.” The introduction of male clones also means Maslany doesn’t have to do quite so much heavy lifting this season. “The show continues to be somewhat from my clones’ point of view, but there is a huge element that is now being lifted off my shoulders that Ari is carrying,” Maslany says. “His clones have just as much at stake in this world and as much complexity as mine do. We’ve also had so many amazing guest stars and recurring guest characters on the show, and the supporting cast has been playing a bigger part in the show, too.”
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Rory McIIroy Seeking Master status
Full Name: Rory McIlroy Born: May 4, 1989 (age 25) Hometown: Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
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Height/weight: 5 feet, 10 inches/160 pounds Swings: Right PGA Tour wins: 9
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Majors wins: U.S. Open, 2011; PGA Championship, 2012 and 2014; British Open, 2014 Other achievements: Leading money winner, 2012 and 2014; PGA Player and PGA Tour Player of the Year, 2012 and 2014
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By Dan Ladd Winning a major is the ultimate accomplishment for any professional golfer, and the Masters Tournament is certainly no exception. When it comes time to tee off on the final day at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday, April 12, if he makes the cut, there will be one player with somewhat more at stake than the rest of the field: Rory McIIroy. The reigning World No. 1 on the PGA circuit can accomplish a number of goals, should he be fortunate enough to slip on the coveted green jacket at the end of the tournament, which airs Thursday and Friday, April 9 and 10, on ESPN, before moving over to CBS for the weekend rounds. A victory at Augusta would not only be McIlroy’s first Masters win, it would also complete his grand slam. He won his first major, the U.S. Open, in 2011 after blowing a lead on the final day of the Masters that same year. He’s since rebounded nicely, winning two PGA Championships (2012 and 2014) and also taking the British Open in 2014. A Masters victory would put him in the same company as Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, as he would join them as the only players to complete a career Grand Slam by the age of 25. McIIroy leads defending Masters champ Bubba Watson in the rankings. He also just replaced Tiger Woods as the cover figure of EA Sports’ PGA Tour video game. Still, nothing beats the taste of victory that winning the Masters could provide.
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MOVIES JAY BOBBIN's Theatrical movie review
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“Cinderella”
One thing has to be said about Disney’s live-action revamps of some of its animated classics: The studio sure gets the casting of the villainesses right. Glenn Close proved it as Cruella de Vil in “101 Dalmatians,” then it was Angelina Jolie’s turn last year in “Maleficent.” Now, Cate Blanchett is the wicked stepmother in the latest version of “Cinderella” ... and if her typically superb acting alone doesn’t guarantee the two-time Oscar winner will excel in the role, the way the film showcases her fortifies her memorable work. You know the story – and, clearly, so do director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Chris Weitz (who has done much good screen work in tandem with his brother Paul). That’s apparently why they do a bit of expansion, with Blanchett’s character a particular beneficiary, explaining the psyche and reasoning involved much as Jolie’s Maleficent did.
Cate Blanchett adds spark to Disney’s liveaction ‘Cinderella’
While it’s the flashier performance by nature, the movie does have a notable Cinderella in Lily James (“Downton Abbey”). Her natural appeal makes it all the easier to root for the heroine to overcome her grim circumstances and – with the help of a Fairy Godmother (Helena Bonham Carter) – be in the right place at the right time to catch the eye of a prince (Richard Madden, of “Game of Thrones”). With the visual sheen that Branagh and company put on the story, this is pretty much the “Cinderella” that anyone would hope for, very stately and quite entertaining. This having been one of Disney’s top properties for so long, one has to expect it would get the same sort of care as Tim Burton’s tackling of “Alice in Wonderland” several years ago. It does, and such other fine talents as Hayley Atwell (recently seen as TV’s “Marvel’s Agent Carter”), Stellan Skarsgard and the great Derek Jacobi lend their acting touches as well. The result nearly makes one jealous of youngsters whose first taste of “Cinderella” this will be, and their elders can rest assured that it’s faithful enough to be acceptable as the definitive edition for them. The picture also has an ace that all other versions haven’t, and her name is Blanchett. And happily, she’s a “card” that this “Cinderella” knows exactly how to play.
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This true, Tim Burton-directed comedydrama takes its title from the standout trait of the characters ostensibly painted by Walter Keane (played by two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz) – who earned great fame and acclaim for them, though it ultimately was discovered that they actually were created by his wife, Margaret (the customarily excellent Amy Adams, who earned a Golden Globe Award for her performance). The impact of that professional situation on their personal relationship is examined; costars include Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter and Terence Stamp. DVD extra: “making-of” documentary. ››› (PG13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)
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Coming Soon on DVD... “CAKE” (April 21): Jennifer Aniston plays a woman newly involved with the widower (Sam Worthington) of a late member (Anna Kendrick) of her support group. (R: AS, P) “TAKEN 3” (April 21): Framed for murder, CIA veteran Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has to clear himself and protect his daughter (Maggie Grace) again. (PG-13: AS, P, V) “THE BOY NEXT DOOR” (April 28): A martially troubled teacher (Jennifer Lopez) comes to regret her brief interlude with a young neighbor (Ryan Guzman). (R: AS, N, P, V)
“THE GAMBLER” (April 28): Mark Wahlberg plays a professor whose secret gambling habit ends up endangering those closest to him. (R: AS, N, P) “PADDINGTON” (April 28): The beloved title bear goes to London and finds a family ... and also an enemy, a determined taxidermist (Nicole Kidman). (PG: AS) “THE WEDDING RINGER” (April 28): A groom (Josh Gad) who’s in desperate need of a best man hires one (Kevin Hart) from a firm that furnishes them. (R: AS, N, P)
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