"Christmas in Rockefeller Center"Wednesday 8pm, NBC The big tree will be lit. Roker will host. But what really makes this annual special, well, special this year is that both Celine Dion and Barry Manilow will take the stage to sing holiday tunes and the like. And also probably bring about the end of the world, […]
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"Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade"Thursday 9am-noon, NBC There are plenty of reasons to dismiss the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. It gets monotonous with marching band after marching band followed by crappy Broadway musical numbers; C-list music stars clumsily lip synching to holiday songs; and the countless gaudy floats and giant balloons. And yet, I always make sure […]
American Gangster (R, 157 minutes) Based on an article by Marc Jacobson (who also inspired 2001’s The Believer), this crime saga dramatizes the life of Manhattan drug kingpin Frank Lucas. Denzel Washington stars as the slick thug who builds an empire during the ’70s while battling a determined police detective (played by Russell Crowe). Ridley […]
"Nip/Tuck"Tuesday 10pm, F/X Season 4 of this racy plastic surgery fest was such a disaster—dwarf sex, lobster babies, pointless Scientology storylines, organ-stealing prostitutes—that I’d all but written it off. The decision to relocate the whole show from Miami to Hollywood seemed a last, desperate gasp. But damn if it didn’t pay off: Two episodes into […]
30 Days of Night (R, 113 minutes) The hit graphic novel about a savage (but clever) band of vampires who emigrate to Alaska to bask in the extended darkness of the Arctic Circle’s sunless winter hits the big screen. Josh Hartnett (40 Days and 40 Nights) headlines as the small-town sheriff who tries to fend […]