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- DirectorDavid McNallyStarsPiper PeraboAdam GarciaJohn GoodmanAspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons, comes out of her shell.
- DirectorPeyton ReedStarsKirsten DunstEliza DushkuJesse BradfordA champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships.
- DirectorRay AustinStarsPatrick MacneeGareth HuntJoanna LumleySteed has invented a way of using a triumvirate of agents with photographic memories to memorize top secret information in three parts. Each third being useless without the other two. A brilliant criminal named Juventor plans to use a mind-swapping device to piece all three parts together and sell the combined information to the highest bidder. When he learns The New Avengers are closing in on him, Juventor decides to swap brains completely with one of his victims.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsPatrick MacneeGareth HuntJoanna LumleyGeneral Stevens has gone missing while inspecting the 19th Special Commando Division unannounced. Gambit intercepts a canister of combat footage starring the commanding officer of the 19th: Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller. Purdey has her finds her way into the training area by way of a pub filled with soldiers.
- DirectorRay AustinStarsPatrick MacneeGareth HuntJoanna LumleyScientists Thornton & Carter have discovered a radioactive isotope that causes living things to grow enormous. Rather than inform the Ministry the scientists keep the secret to themselves. After some of the isotope is spilled down the drain, reports surface of a monster emerging from the sewers that is intent on killing people.
- DirectorSusanna LoStarsPaolo SegantiSydney PennyDiego Wallraff
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsRoger MooreIan HendryRosemary DexterSet against an appealingly sunny Sicilian backdrop, this movie finds Simon Templar, an elegant thief and ethical busybody, outraged when a British banker is murdered after he recognizes an old colleague-turned-Mafia kingpin.
- DirectorJohn MoffittRobert SchwartzAndrew SoltStarsThe Ames BrothersPaul AnkaRoss BagdasarianA very special collection of classic Christmas moments from The Ed Sullivan Show. Featuring performances by Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, The Muppets, The Supremes, and many more.
- StarsChen KenichiMasahiko KobeIron Chef Tournament to determine the King of Iron Chefs. Chef Kobe Italian cuisine versus Chef Kenichi Chinese Cuisine. Theme ingredient: pork ribs Theme: Tokyo X
- StarsHiroyuki Sakai
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsNastassja KinskiMichael YorkRupert Penry-JonesDuring WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerJamie Lee CurtisTom ArnoldA fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
- StarsJohn Sebastian
- DirectorTed HaimesStarsBonoDavid BowieGerald Casale'Punk' Strips Music To Its Angry Roots BYLINE: EDWARD GUTHMANN, Chronicle Staff Critic 4 Star Rating PUNK: Documentary. With Johnny Rotten, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Chrissie Hynde, Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone. Directed, Written and Produced by Ted Haimes. (Not rated. 68 minutes. At the Red Vic Movie House through June 18.) ------------------------------------------------------------- If you thought you'd heard the last word on punk, or believed -- as I did -- that Penelope Spheeris' 1981 film ''The Decline of Western Civilization'' was the definitive punk documentary, you were wrong. Say hello to ''Punk'' , a smart, bracing, thoroughly enjoyable film that recalls the punk movement in England and the United States, pinpoints its roots and legacy, and interviews all the players who defined the genre. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is on board, along with Joe Strummer of the Clash, Elvis Costello (who says he never identified with punk), Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Joey Ramone of the Ramones and Malcolm McLaren, the effete London haberdasher who created the Sex Pistols. Unlike ''The Decline of Western Civilization,'' which offered an insider's look at the L.A. punk culture at the time it was happening and was followed by a 1988 sequel, ''Punk'' benefits from hindsight -- from a wisdom and insight that weren't possible when mosh pits, body slams and screaming bloody outrage were still cutting-edge. ''It was a great time because it was so spontaneous and pure,'' says wraithlike poet Patti Smith, whose mid-'70s success slightly predated punk. Adds John Doe of the Los Angeles band X: ''It was reclaiming rock 'n' roll to a simple message -- and wasn't a big, bloated, corporate, limousine, cocaine- ridden bunch of s--.'' Directed and written by Ted Haimes, and executive-produced by Quincy Jones and Andrew Solt (''This Is Elvis,'' ''Imagine''), ''Punk'' benefits from an amazing trove of film clips -- Costello's first TV appearance, David Byrne and the Talking Heads in 1975 -- and wisely lets the material speak for itself instead of imposing an overlay of critical analysis. The participants do the interpreting in ''Punk,'' whether it's Bono of U2 praising Smith for her blend of the profane and the sacred; Strummer admitting that the Clash ripped off its sound, as did most Brit punk bands, from the Ramones; or guitarist Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols recalling, ''I couldn't play and Johnny Rotten couldn't sing and it created this horrible noise.'' Horrible noise, perhaps, but the energy and fury that fueled it were inescapable and demanded a voice. Once that rage was diluted and turned into New Wave, Rotten argues, the whole point of punk was destroyed. ''(New Wave) was a complete corruption of everything,'' he says. ''Everybody tried to be nice all over again. Don't be nice; it's the kiss of death.'' We also learn that the Sex Pistols modeled their anarchistic, screw-off style after the glam-rock New York Dolls. Contrary to the standard media perception, ''Punk'' insists, the movement wasn't born in Britain but had its antecedents in such American performers as Iggy Pop, MC5 and the Velvet Underground and actually took form at CBGB, a dumpy biker bar in Manhattan's Bowery. ''Punk'' also demonstrates how the grunge rock of the early '90s -- Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day -- can be directly traced to the punk stylists of the '70s. So much for the notion that punk was a brief aberration that existed in a vacuum -- something that ended with Sid Vicious' death rattle. ''Punk'' celebrates the blasting energy of its subject, but also demonstrates the costs of unbridled rage and self-abuse. When Kurt Cobain died at 27, Iggy Pop says, ''it brought home to me, as many things have in my maturity, that this is a dangerous business -- dangerous for the practitioners.''
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsLouis ArmstrongPhilip BoscoDave BrubeckAs the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music. It has a new name, Swing, and for millions of young fans, it will be the defining music of their generation. Benny Goodman is hailed as the "King of Swing" and Billie Holiday begins her career as the greatest of all female jazz singers.
- 20011h 42mTV-PG7.9 (89)TV EpisodeDirectorKen BurnsStarsPhilip BoscoJames Lincoln CollierKevin ConwayAs the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success has made the music too predictable. Count Basie and the Kansas City sound reignite the spirit of swing. By the decade's end, Duke Ellington has been hailed as a hero in Europe, amid anxious preparations for war. And weeks after that war begins, Coleman Hawkins startles the world with a glimpse of what jazz will become, improvising a new music on the old standard, "Body and Soul."
- DirectorBradford MayStarsDavid James ElliottCatherine BellPatrick LabyorteauxHarm and Mac get separate transfer orders; Harm gets a promotion. Vic investigates and resolves a fraudulent enlistment. Harm and Mac talk, then propose to each other; Bud flips a coin to decide which of them will resign from the service.
- DirectorPaul HolahanStarsRob MorrowDavid KrumholtzJudd HirschDr. Larry Fleinhardt's former college days friend Jonas Hoke, the Senior computer-science researcher, who develops for Robert Oliver's firm Lorman group with gifted college drop-out Scott Reynolds a classified program to evaluate government projects, is murdered in his Hollywood Hills home; data were stolen from his computer, which only contains a coded program for analysis of baseball statistics. Hoke's financial divorce complications seem irrelevant, although his wife had a relationship with their security system installer Lucas Grant. However Charlie finds that Hoke actually used the same kind of advanced statistic analysis and performance prediction on other data, cleverly masked under meaningless baseball numbers: Hoke applied this method cutting-edge to calculate human performance prospects in real life, based on various governmental and other data, potentially far more valuable...
- DirectorDick LowryStarsAnne HecheTate DonovanMichael MitchellManhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsSean ConneryAlec BaldwinScott GlennIn November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsKirk DouglasRobert MitchumTony CurtisA former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.
- 1997–200350mTV-PG9.7 (11K)TV EpisodeDirectorJoss WhedonStarsSarah Michelle GellarNicholas BrendonEmma Caulfield FordIn this musical extravaganza, Sunnydale residents find themselves bursting into song, and flame, when a demon attempts to make Dawn his bride.
- DirectorBud SchaetzleJames YukichStarsWilliam ShatnerAlessandro StrattaTodd EnglishBased upon the Japanese cult sensation, Iron Chef USA carries on the legend of the famed "secret ingredient." Watch the Gourmet Academy, Iron Chef French Jean-Francois Meteigner, Iron Chef Italian Alessandro Stratta, Iron Chef Asian Roy Yamaguchi, Iron Chef American Todd English, take on challengers in the Kitchen Arena. William Shatner presides over the culinary clashes.
- DirectorWinrich KolbeStarsKate MulgrewRobert BeltranRoxann DawsonWhile pursuing the trail of Maquis rebels, a newly commissioned Starfleet ship gets pulled to the far side of the galaxy.
- DirectorMichael WadleighStarsJoan BaezRichie HavensRoger DaltreyOscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
- DirectorMark TarlovStarsSarah Michelle GellarSean Patrick FlaneryPatricia ClarksonA magical crab works wonders for a terrible chef's culinary skills, leading her towards the man of her dreams.
- DirectorJonathan LynnStarsBruce WillisMatthew PerryRosanna ArquetteA struggling dentist's life is turned upside down when a famous gangster moves in next door, and his wife convinces him to inform a notorious mob boss about the gangster's whereabouts.
- 1977–19791h7.8 (87)TV EpisodeDirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsShaun CassidyParker StevensonPamela Sue MartinFrank, Joe, and Nancy are at a detectives' convention when they discover a mysterious phantom who snatches one detective after another.
- 1977–19791h7.6 (80)TV EpisodeDirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsShaun CassidyParker StevensonPamela Sue MartinFrank, Joe, and Nancy are at a detective's convention when they discover a mysterious phantom who snatches one detective after another.
- DirectorAndrew SoltStarsGary BuseyHank BallardChuck BerryThis volume of the series explores the roots of Rock 'n' Roll as a musical genre.
- DirectorBud FriedgenStarsHank BallardMilton BerleChuck BerryRock and Roll goes mainstream and becomes popular with white teenagers and faces opposition, particularly from older adults who see it as a corrupting influence.
- 19951h7.6 (143)TV EpisodeDirectorAndrew SoltStarsAlan AldridgePeter AsherThe Beach BoysIn the 1960s, music artists from Great Britain like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who become popular in the United States.
- StarsBonoJames BrownRuth BrownThis episode explores the development of Soul with in the Rock 'n' Roll genre.
- DirectorSusan SteinbergStarsSteve AllenAl AronowitzJoan BaezThis episode examines the expanding electric music scene.
- DirectorObie BenzStarsJoan BaezBonoGary BuseyThe peace-loving counter culture produces the phenomenon of Woodstock.
- DirectorMarc SachnoffStarsDuane AllmanGregg AllmanJeffrey BaxterLes Paul's invention of the electric guitar paved the way for later Rock 'n' Roll guitar heroes.
- 19951h7.6 (145)TV EpisodeStarsDuane AllmanGregg AllmanJeffrey BaxterThis episode reviews the development of Rock 'n' Roll music of the 1970s.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsPatrick McGoohanGeorge ColeTony BrittonIn eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III's (Eric Pohlmann's) oppression and Naval press gangs.
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsJack LordJames MacArthurAl HarringtonA current wave of liquor store robberies and shootings are strangely linked to a fiveyear old bank robbery in which neither the quarter-million-dollar booty nor the thief was ever found. Charles Cioffi guest stars as an HPD officer, who, when the link in the crimes is uncovered, desperately hunts for the man behind the liquor store crimes.
- DirectorKeith BoakStarsChristopher EcclestonBillie PiperDavid VerreyThe Slitheen have infiltrated Parliament and have the Doctor and his friends trapped as the Doctor works to prevent them from starting World War Three.
- DirectorGwen ArnerStarsConnie SelleccaTwiggyJameson ParkerThree brides-to-be have secrets that may jeopardize their upcoming nuptials.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerKathryn HarroldSam WanamakerA former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.
- 1996–199723mTV-PG7.4 (32)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickThe team searches for a way to stop an apocalyptic preacher and his apostles from ending the world.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG7.7 (30)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickThe legendary Philosopher's Stone is recovered and then lost again.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG7.0 (27)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickAlice Starseer returns to bury her grandfather but comes into danger through Surd's ambition.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG7.2 (22)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickDr. Quest runs across underwater crop circles while on a journey to investigate the legendary sunken ship "Mary Celeste."
- 1996–199722mTV-PG6.8 (24)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickSurd prods cetaceans around the world into violence through his control of the cetacean bandwidth.
- 1996–199723mTV-PG7.9 (44)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickAn old enemy falls victim to his own weapon, a nerve gas, which threatens to leak out of his lab and destroy others.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG6.7 (31)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickJonny and the others search for a tiger roaming Manhattan, but a tabloid television reporter is hot on their heels.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG7.2 (28)TV EpisodeStarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickTransmissions from space contain warnings to halt space experiments.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG7.1 (21)TV EpisodeStarsQuinton FlynnJohn de LancieGranville Van DusenThe Quest team tries to stop a former KGB operative from creating a golem.
- StarsJ.D. RothGeorge SegalRobert PatrickSurd lures Jonny into a terrible maze.
- 1996–199722mTV-PG7.9 (52)TV EpisodeStarsJeff BennettJim CummingsJesse DouglasThe Quest team investigates rumors of ghost pirates in Bermuda, near the site of a legendary pirate wreck.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsVernel BagnerisSidney BechetBuddy BoldenJazz begins in New Orleans, 19th century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly diverse musical culture. In the 1890s, African-American musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden and Sydney Bichet create a new music out of these ingredients. Soon after the start of the new century, people are calling it jazz.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsAdam ArkinLouis ArmstrongPhilip BoscoSpeakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and music will span almost three-quarters of a century - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Armstrong grew up on the mean streets of New Orleans and moved to Chicago in 1922, inspiring a new generation of musicians. Meanwhile, Ellington outgrows the society music he learned to play in Washington D.C., and heads to Harlem.
- DirectorDonna DeitchStarsRick SpringfieldAndrea RothGeordie JohnsonKim Jameson is a student at a prominent university while Kate Jameson also known as Dominique, Kim's twin sister, is a troubled model working for the House of Shambertin in Paris. Kate is a drunkard, in desperate need for rehabilitation. Kim checks her sister in a rehab center, agreeing to fill up Dominique's absence. Many events take place in Paris as Kim finds herself dealing with all of Kate's problems including blackmail. She also falls in love with Philip, one of the workers there, when he finds a remarkable change in Dominique's personality.
- DirectorSandor SternStarsDavid HasselhoffMiguel FernandesKathy IrelandNew York. Some explosions destroy all the bridges connecting Manhattan with the rest of New York. The authorities attribute the disaster to a terrorist organisation. But Jake Gorki, a policeman of the New York Police Department, flying over the Federal Reserve Bank with his helicopter, suspects something else: a robbery.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsLouis ArmstrongSidney BechetBix BeiderbeckeIn the 1920s, jazz is everywhere, and for the first time soloists and singers take center stage. We meet Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues; Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazz star; and Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, for whom jazz offers a chance to escape the ghetto and achieve their dreams. Duke Ellington appears at the Cotton Club and Louis Armstrong performs his masterpiece, "West End Blues."
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsLouis ArmstrongVernel BagnerisSidney BechetIn 1929 as the Great Depression begins, New York is now America's jazz capital. On Broadway, Louis Armstrong revolutionizes the art of American popular song. In Harlem, Chick Webb pioneers his own big-band sound and in the city's clubs, pianists Fats Waller and Art Tatum dazzle audiences. But it is Duke Ellington who takes jazz "beyond category," composing hit tunes that has critics comparing him to Stravinsky.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEddie MurphyJon TenneyJoey TravoltaAxel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMel GibsonDanny GloverJoe PesciRiggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
- DirectorBill DukeStarsWhoopi GoldbergKathy NajimyMaggie SmithShowgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsLouis ArmstrongPhilip BoscoDave BrubeckWhen America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal. Bandleaders like Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw enlist, taking their swing to the troops overseas. Many black Americans, segregated at home and in uniform, find themselves fighting for liberties their own country denies them. In a Harlem club called Minton's Playhouse, a small band of young musicians, led by Dizzy Gillespie and the saxophonist Charlie Parker, has discovered a new way of playing - fast, intricate, exhilarating, and sometimes chaotic. The sound will soon be called "bebop" and once Americans hear it, jazz will never be the same.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsLouis ArmstrongDave BrubeckKevin ConwayThe postwar years bring prosperity, but the Cold War threat makes these anxious years as well. In jazz, this underlying tension will be reflected in bebop, and in the troubled life of it's biggest star, Charlie Parker. Dizzy Gillespie, tries to popularize the new sound by adding showmanship and Latin rhythms, while pianist Thelonius Monk infuses it with his eccentric personality to create a music all his own. Dave Brubeck mixes jazz with classical music to produce a million-seller LP. But one man remains determined to give jazz popular appeal on his own terms, the trumpet player Miles Davis.
- DirectorDeran SarafianStarsGary SiniseMelina KanakaredesCarmine GiovinazzoTwo bodies are found, strangled to death by the same killer. Evidence from the second crime scene leads the detectives to a house with a third live victim who is paralyzed and is only able to blink.
- DirectorDanny CannonStarsWilliam PetersenMarg HelgenbergerGary DourdanGreg has found a replacement in the DNA lab, Chandra Moore, and introduces her to the co-workers. Capt. Brass, Grissom and Greg, in his first case, investigate the death of an unidentified victim with a shot in the forehead in a shooting in the nightclub owned by Manny Brazil. He says that he does not know how the gun has passed through the metal detector. Catherine and Det. Louis Vartann investigate the murder of a woman covered in blood in a hotel room. The man, Carl Johnson, also covered in blood, tells to the detectives that he has never seen that woman before. Soon they learn that the victim is the stripper Nicole "Raven" Richards that drugged Carl to rob him. Warrick and Det. Chris Cavaliere investigate the death of Lance Frazer, a loser that died in the bathtub electrified by heat exchanger causing a short circuit in the motel. Soon Warrick learns that Lance hit a fifty-thousand-dollar jackpot on the previous night. Nick, Sara and Det. Travis investigate an "alien" buried in a shallow grave near the Area 51.
- DirectorTerrence O'HaraStarsDavid James ElliottCatherine BellPatrick LabyorteauxSturgis is the acting JAG of the Navy. Simon tells Mac that Webb is alive. Mac visits Kershaw and Clay's mother, then Harm, Mac, and Simon go to Manderley, where Harm finds Webb. Clay's mother fixes a problem, and Mac breaks off with Webb.