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  TELEVISION

  Documentary follows the evolution of Latin music

  When the Fania All-Stars played a legendary concert at Yankee Stadium in 1973, the stands were filled with 63,000 people who were so crazy for the radical new music called salsa that they stormed the stage. It was a bigger audience than the 55,000 who turned out for the Beatles' famed show at Shea Stadium eight years before. And yet there was almost no mention of the event in mainstream media, as if, for most of the country, one of the biggest concert events to take place in America hadn't happened.
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  SCREEN GEMS

  A look at the week ahead in the movies and TV

  BIG SCREEN Law Abiding Citizen (R) -- An angry man (300's Gerard Butler) targets the Philadelphia prosecutor (Jamie Foxx) who orchestrated a plea bargain for the killer of his wife and daughter. Sometimes, words just aren't enough.
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  TELEVISION Q&A

  Mullally joining 'Party' cast

  Q: I really miss Party Down with my favorite guys and gals. Will it return to TV?
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  TELEVISION

  Review | 'The Power of the Poor': How red tape stifles poor

  Third World governments come and go, trading monarchy for populism for military autocracy and even for the trappings, at least, of democracy. Yet the poor remain poor: from one to four billion of them, depending on whose estimate you accept.
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  TELEVISION

  Review | 'Three Rivers': Standard operating procedure for doc drama

  You know it's late in the fall TV season when a network can't keep its genre cliches straight. CBS' Three Rivers, fall's final new show, has an irascible surgeon snapping at a hospital bureaucrat: ``Never get between a doctor and his donut!'' I haven't checked, but I'll bet over on CSI: Miami, Horatio Caine is brooding about the cost of malpractice insurance and the promiscuity of ER nurses.
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  SCREEN GEMS

  A look at the week ahead in the movies and TV

  BIG SCREEN Couples Retreat (PG-13) -- Four married couples (among them Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and Jon Favreau) vacation on an island that specializes in relationship counseling. More than specializes, actually: The therapy is mandatory. The cast is promising, and Favreau and Vaughn co-wrote the screenplay, so the movie should be funny. But the trailer looks deadly.
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  TELEVISION

  Diversity returns to late-night

  Comedian and actress Mo'Nique can pinpoint when she began to fall out of love with late-night television. It was the spring of 1994, when Arsenio Hall, the man who broke the genre's color barrier, walked away from his popular syndicated show.

• TELEVISION Q&A

  Season one leaves 'Hartman' fan wanting more

  Q: I recently started watching the season one DVD of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and find it utterly brilliant and hilarious. How many seasons did this show run and are the other seasons available?
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  TELEVISION

  Review | This 'Night at the Movies' is frightfully fun

  Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that Norman Bates isn't about to burst out of the bedroom and slice you like a Benihana filet.
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  TELEVISION

  Reviews | 'Hank', 'The Middle': Will Grammer and Heaton work out better back-to-back?

  Back to you: Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton's joint show didn't work out, but the sitcom vets return to TV tonight with new shows
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  TELEVISION

  Review | 'Trauma': a pointless drama

  The Hollywood writers' strike has been over for more than a year now, but Trauma seems to be some sort of final shot across the studios' bow: See, guys, this is what a show would look like if you tried to make it without screenwriters.
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  TELEVISION

  Reviews | 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea,' 'The Story of Florida's State Parks'

  All you really need to know about Ken Burns' newest marathon documentary you can learn from the title: The National Parks: America's Best Idea. Really, the best? Better than the polio vaccine, air conditioning, the Internet, the airplane, liberal democracy, rock 'n' roll, bourbon and the abolition of slavery? Better than toilet paper?
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  SCREEN GEMS

  A look ahead at the week in TV and movies

  BIG SCREEN Capitalism: A Love Story (R) -- Michael Moore's most impassioned cinematic plea for activism yet explores the recent banking and housing collapse and the increasingly larger -- and more destructive -- role corporations have played in the U.S. government since the Reagan era. Moore does an impressive job of compressing a complicated subject into two highly watchable and entertaining hours, replete with man-on-the-street examples of the toll of the recession on the middle class.
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  TELEVISION

  Crime drama's looking a little lost

  The image is striking: A city skyline, bracketed by palm trees, looms ominously as a single building rises, like the tip of cigarette butt, to lean against the logo for the crime drama CSI: Miami, seen 10 p.m. Mondays on WFOR-CBS 4.
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  TELEVISION Q&A

  'Friday Night Lights' coming back on

  Q: Any idea when the show Friday Night Lights might run again?
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  TELEVISION REVIEWS

  Reviews | 'Brothers,' 'The Cleveland Show': 'Family Guy' spins off Cleveland Brown

  When The CW last spring canceled Everybody Hates Chris and let The Game move over to BET, it created a startling gap: For the first time in nobody-can-remember-how-many years, there wasn't a single black family sitcom on broadcast television. A network staple since Diahann Carroll broke the color barrier in 1968 with Julia was, to borrow a perhaps infelicitous phrase, gone with the wind.

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  WSVN adds two newscasts, making it one of America's newsiest stations

  Going against an industry-wide trend, WSVN-Fox 7 is adding news programs instead of canceling them. WSVN kicks off two new late-night newscasts this weekend. The 30-minutes show will air at 11 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, with Reed Cowan and Robbin Simmons at the anchor desk. The Sunday newscast will be followed by Sports Extra with anchor Steve Shapiro and sports agent Drew Rosenhaus.
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  TELEVISION REVIEW

  Review | 'FlashForward': Visions of the future dance in their heads

  If you could see the future, would you try to change it? If you're an ABC executive and the future is 14 million viewers evaporating in a puff of Nielsen smoke when Lost wraps ups its final episode later this season, the first answer is: You betcha! And the second is: FlashForward, the network's sci-fi series that debuts Thursday.
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  TELEVISION

  Reviews | 'Modern Family,' 'Mercy,' 'Eastwick': Hilarious, then unnerving, then . . . well, never mind

  Halloween may still be six weeks off, but don't be surprised if you hear an eerie wail from the ghosts of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Samantha Stephens and Hot Lips Houlihan as you watch TV Wednesday night. It's an evening for reworked genres, and the wraiths may be outraged -- and in a couple of cases, a little jealous -- at the posthumous cosmetic surgery they've undergone.
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  TELEVISION

  Reviews | 'NCIS: Los Angeles,' 'The Good Wife,' 'The Forgotten': It's a crime wave

  ''Obviously crime pays,'' noted plumber-philosopher G. Gordon Liddy once said, ''or there'd be no crime.'' Or television, he might have added.

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