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Sunday, May 1, 2022

Men in the Middle: notes on The Tourist, This Is Going to Hurt, The Responder and Around the World in 80 Days

Four dramas that got 2022 off to a strong start: dramas that owe their success not merely to the talents of their leading men, but to the onscreen personas that they’ve cultivated.
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Well, until recently, when I decided to change the title of the blog to something a little less obscure, the title was "That's Alls I Know," referencing the 1994 Murphy Brown episode "The Fifth Anchor," with Wallace Shawn as a former colleague of the FYI anchors.

The point of this blog: to talk about television, past and present. And recently, I've begun to embrace the films of Classic Hollywood, which -- for me, at least -- make up a good chunk of my TV viewing.

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Well, in my "day job," I run the record label PS Classics (psclassics.com), dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song. In my "down time," I write this blog, devoted to essays about television that seem to grow longer with each passing year.
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