On Friday night on PBS, Great Performances presents a documentary about the making of a Beatles TV special from 1967 — Magical Mystery Tour — then shows a restored version of that special. Magical Mystery Tour has the music from the U.S. album of the same name, but it's not the album. It's a musical comedy fantasy about the Beatles and a busload of tourists taking a trip to unknown destinations.
You can't fill your end-of-the-year season with nothing but good cheer, or you'll turn into a candy cane. (That's science.) So we chose to tackle a slightly darker topic this week: Is everything worse than ever?
Originally published on Fri December 14, 2012 5:37 am
Homeland is one of the best shows on TV, but television critic Eric Deggans says it's using the same cheap trick repeatedly. And, other shows do it too. They have main characters who are almost always right, but nobody ever believes them.
Linney's Daisy was on hand, along with Eleanor Roosevelt (Olivia Williams), to support the president on the weekend of a momentous visit by the king and queen of England in June of 1939, as Europe teetered on the brink of World War II.
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In Hyde Park on Hudson, Laura Linney plays one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's (Bill Murray) distant cousins — a reserved, self-contained woman with whom he carried on a quiet affair.
For presidential-film buffs, this holiday season has some high-profile offerings. First, there was Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln. And out now, there's Hyde Park on Hudson, a peek behind the curtain and into the life of America's longest-serving president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Carmelo Vargas waits backstage before playing Juan Diego in a performance at the celebration for at Bojangles' Coliseum. The Virgin Mary is believed to have revealed herself to him in the 16th Century.
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Besey Gomez and Carmelo Vargas play the Virgin of Guadalupe and Juan Diego in the play in front of about five thousand people at Bojangles' Coliseum on Tuesday night.
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A site is set up beside the stage to handle the quantity of offerings of flowers for the Virgin.
Children dressed as Juan Diego or in traditional Mexican attire for the celebration. Although a Mexican holiday, the day is celebrated throughout Latin American Catholic communities.
Vince Finnerty has been a priest at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church since 1995, and in that time he has seen a large growth in the Latino community.
“We have done the celebration in different places, but it got to the point where we needed some place bigger”, Finnerty says.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church now holds its festival for its namesake at Bojangles’ Coliseum. The church celebrated the Virgin Guadalupe on Tuesday night with about 5,000 people in attendance.
