‘The Lost Tapes: Patty Hearst’ Goes Inside the Heiresses’ Kidnapping That Riveted America
Soon to be married college student. Blue-blooded heiress to a family fortune. Kidnap victim. Terrorist sympathizer. Bank robber. Patricia “Patty” Hearst was all of these things as the case of her February 1974 abduction from her Berkeley, Calif. apartment and subsequent transition to an active accomplice in a crime spree with a left-wing urban guerrilla group dominated the news for 19 months. The case left law enforcement stymied and...
Foo Fighters Rock an Ancient Amphitheater in PBS’ ‘Landmarks Live in Concert’
The 11-time Grammy award-winning Foo Fighters have performed all over the world, but never in Greece, until this past July when they gave an historic concert at the Acropolis in Athens. “We’ve done some crazy things over the last 20 years, but I think this might be the craziest thing the Foo Fighters have ever done,” says frontman Dave Grohl at the beginning of “Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special,”...
Want a ‘Hot Date?’ Check Out Pop TV’s New Comedy Sketch Show
You may know their work from the website CollegeHumor or from truTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything.” But tonight real-life married couple Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy will share a larger stage as their new comedy sketch show, “Hot Date,” premieres at 8 ET/PT on Pop, a joint venture of CBS and Lionsgate. The half-hour relationship comedy features the couple playing a multitude of characters embroiled in the drama– and more often,...
‘The Long Road Home,’ An Unflinching Iraq War Drama
It was difficult to imagine on April 4, 2004 that it would be the day that one U.S. military platoon, the 1st Calvary Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, would suffer its largest loss of life in a single day since the Vietnam War. After all, it had been less than a year since Pres. George W. Bush had famously declared, “Mission accomplished” about the U.S. intervention in Iraq which overthrew dictator Saddam Hussein. American forces...
Jane Goodall Pic, ‘Kedi’, ‘Vietnam War’ Take Top Trophies at Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
As far as awards shows go, it’s a baby – and the second annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards also had a unique confluence of circumstances in that the two top prizes were given to documentaries focused on animals. “Jane,” the Brett Morgen-directed film about the legendary primatologist Jane Goodall took the top prize in ceremonies held at BRIC in Brooklyn November 2 that were hosted by Penn Gillette. The documentary “Kedi,”...
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