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Notes on a preview of ‘How to Succeed in Business…’

Wednesday night I saw the fourth preview of the new revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” starring Daniel Radcliffe, and I’m happy to report that the show is in great shape....

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Is ‘Company’ another sign of Broadway’s renewed health?

Last night I went to one of the local screenings of the HD recording of a recent Lincoln Center concert staging of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.” The show on the screen was quite wonderful,...

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Cheyenne Jackson knocks ‘em dead on 57th St.

There is no hotter ticket on Broadway at the moment than the Hugh Jackman concert show — the performer’s combination of looks, talent and old-fashioned star power has drawn him comparisons with...

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The utter pointlessness of HBO Films’ ‘Cinema Verite’

To those of us who were around in 1973, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, need no introduction. They were the featured attraction in a pioneering TV series called “An American Family” that...

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1971 flashback: when kiddie movies didn’t rule the summer

A few weeks ago, thanks to Netflix, I watched the bitter relationship comedy “Carnal Knowledge” and was struck by how relevant the Mike Nichols-Jules Feiffer film still is more than 40 years after its...

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‘My Shopping Addiction’: low-end reality TV

Everyone knows that we are in a new Golden Age of TV when it comes to the best stuff being produced by HBO, Showtime, PBS and even the commercial networks. Most nights, you’d be better off staying home...

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‘Mad Men’ + ‘Broadcast News’ + James Bond = ‘The Hour’

BBC America drew sadly small audiences for the first season of the very strong miniseries “The Hour” last year, but they are showing season two this fall, and I strongly urge you to catch up on DVD....

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‘W’: 40 years of gossip, design & innovative photography

I’m a magazine junkie, but I am sorry to say I have only seen the Woman’s Wear Daily offshoot W from time to time since it was launched as a broadsheet glossy in 1972. Like Rolling Stone, the...

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‘Mad Women’: real life in advertising’s good old/bad old days

Jane Maas has been a major player in the New York advertising scene since the 1960s, so she is the perfect person to contrast real life there with its fictional depiction on the AMC series “Mad Men.”...

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Following three of the women who worked for those ‘Mad Men’

The hit AMC series, “Mad Men,” which returns for its fifth season Sunday night, has gotten a lot of mileage out of its time-travel aspect of taking the viewer back to Manhattan office life of the early...

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‘Executive Suite’: the ‘Margin Call’ of the early 1950s

Warner Archive has just released a new DVD version of the 1954 MGM hit “Executive Suite” which serves as an engrossing time capsule of life in the American business culture just a few years before the...

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Coming: the ‘Difficult Men’ who made TV better than the movies

Faced with a choice this weekend of hitting the neighborhood multiplex to see “The Internship” or staying home to binge-watch some tasty HBO or Showtime or AMC series, who over the age of 25 would opt...

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‘Halt and Catch Fire’: promising AMC 1980s period piece

Judging by the first episode — shown last Sunday on AMC and now available from streaming services — “Halt and Catch Fire” will become a distinctive and entertaining new TV series. It’s always a little...

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‘How to Succeed in Business’: golden age construction

If you’re anywhere near Philadelphia between now and July 13, the Walnut Street Theatre production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” will add a lot of fun to your trip. The...

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Bad Movies We Love: ‘Palm Springs Weekend’

Released just a few weeks before JFK was killed in Dallas, the Warner Bros. release “Palm Springs Weekend” bears out many people’s belief that our pop culture idea of “the ’50s” lasted until November...

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‘Breathless’: The ‘Mad Men’ era in England

A new and very addictive British TV series, “Breathless,” is debuting on PBS “Masterpiece” Sunday night. The six-episode first season will be shown two-episodes a week between August 24 and September...

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#FridayReads ‘New York Mid-Century 1945-1965

A very pleasing combination of first-rate text and wonderfully chosen illustrations, the new Vendome Press book “New York Mid-Century 1945-1965” takes us through one of the peak periods in the history...

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Steve Schirripa talks ‘Sopranos’ & Foxwoods gig

It was fun to catch up with Steve Schirripa before his appearance with other “Sopranos” cast members at Foxwoods tomorrow. For many fans of the landmark HBO series, Schirripa’s character on the show —...

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HBO repackages ‘The Sopranos’&‘True Blood’

Nothing better illustrates the TV programming changes wrought by cable giant HBO than the just-released complete series packages of “The Sopranos” and “True Blood.” “The Sopranos” represents the...

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1971 flashback: when kiddie flicks didn’t rule summer

When, thanks to Netflix, I re-watched the bitter relationship comedy “Carnal Knowledge,” I was struck by how relevant the Mike Nichols-Jules Feiffer film still is more than 40 years after its release....

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