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Jimmy Fallon goes where Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Ricky Gervais have gone before as he presides over The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Sunday on NBC. Jay Bobbin talks with the amiable “Tonight Show” host about what he plans to bring to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s yearly celebration of movies and TV.

12-13 Award-winning singer Patti Austin was among the many performers in September’s celebration of the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, an event captured in Thursday’s new ABC special “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America.” She tells Jay Bobbin about being with so many other talents for the occasion — and about the special guide she had on her own tour of the museum.

14-15 Neil Patrick Harris is nearly unrecognizable as a struggling actor trying to trick three young orphans out of a sizable inheritance in the seriocomic Netflix series “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” George Dickie talks to Harris about stepping into heavy makeup and the villain’s skin and to narrator Patrick Warburton.

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BY JAY BOBBINSince he basically hosts a party every weeknight, Jimmy Fallon expects to feel at home at The Golden Globe Awards.

The current “Tonight Show” star succeeds others including Ricky Gervais and the team of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as he presides over NBC’s telecast of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 74th annual celebration of film and television Sunday, Jan. 8, from Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel. Movies and television programs of the past year will be honored, and Meryl Streep – a winner of eight Golden Globes – will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for career achievement, and Sylvester Stallone’s daughters Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet will help hand out the statues by sharing the title Miss Golden Globe.

Knowing the event’s typically loose feel, Fallon is planning to maintain it in his own way. Previously an Emmy Awards host, the “Saturday Night Live” alum says that “according to our network, this is the biggest award show that we have. I was like, ‘Let’s do it up. Let’s make it glitzy and glamorous.’ That’s what an award show should be; I love that type of stuff. After seeing Tina and Amy crush it, and Ricky crush it, I want to see what we can do that’s different but still keep it fun.”

Fallon indicates that will be “a lot of the stuff we do on the (‘Tonight’) show, and still keep that vibe. The surprises can be in who wins The Golden Globes, but we have that positivity that we’ve never lost from ‘The Tonight Show.’ I love pop culture and TV and movies. If there weren’t entertainers, I wouldn’t have a show ... they’re all my guests. Basically, 90 percent of my guests will be in that (Golden Globes) audience, and it’s like, ‘Hey, we’re all here. This is so cool that we get to do this.’ It’s very showbizzy, and I like it.”

Though the Hollywood Foreign Press Association often takes its shots from The Golden Globes host during the show, the ever-friendly Fallon notes that “they’ve been super-great with me. They haven’t said ‘No’ to anything. There were a couple of changes I wanted to make, because I’ve been to The Golden Globes a couple of times as an audience member. It’s more the technical

stuff; I’ve said, ‘What do you think about this or that?,’ and they’ve said, ‘Yeah, we can make that work.’ ”

On the movie front, “La La Land” leads the Golden Globe nominees with seven bids – and on the TV side, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” is in front with five nominations. The November announcement of Streep as the DeMille honoree gave Fallon an immediate dose of comfort about his role at the event: ‘I was like, ‘Oh, fantastic!’ Just to get Meryl Streep, that sets the bar. It’ll be a classy night, top-of-the-line. You can’t get much cooler than that.”

You also can’t write the show too far in advance, Fallon reasons, because of what other programs might do. “You come up with an idea for something, then somebody will host (an earlier award show) and they’ll take that idea. Then you get another idea, and ‘Saturday Night Live’ does a sketch with it. There are so many people doing variety now, I can’t plan that far ahead. It’s really tricky, but we have a general idea of what we want to do with the opening, and I don’t think anybody else will do that.”

Whatever the outcome, Fallon intends to enjoy himself as the Golden Globes unfold. “It’s definitely going to be a big night, and definitely fun,” he forecasts. “I know what it’s like to watch it, and the job’s not over for these entertainers (who appear at the ceremony), because this is being broadcast. It’s like, ‘Make it a good show for people at home.’ And it’s the best of film and TV, so it’s like two award shows in one.”

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1Best Motion Picture - Drama“Hell or High Water”“Lion”“Manchester by the Sea”“Moonlight”“Hacksaw Ridge”

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy“20th Century Women”“Deadpool”“Florence Foster Jenkins”“La La Land”“Sing Street”

3Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - DramaAmy Adams (“Arrival”)Jessica Chastain (“Miss Sloane”)Isabelle Huppert (“Elle’)Ruth Negga (“Loving”)Natalie Portman (“Jackie”)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - DramaCasey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”)Joel Edgerton (“Loving”)Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge”)Viggo Mortensen (“Captain Fantastic”)Denzel Washington (“Fences”)

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6Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyColin Farrell (“The Lobster”)Ryan Gosling (“La La Land”)Hugh Grant (“Florence Foster Jenkins”)Jonah Hill (“War Dogs”)Ryan Reynolds (“Deadpool”)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion PictureMahershala Ali (“Moonlight”)Jeff Bridges (“Hell Or High Water”)Simon Helberg (“Florence Foster Jenkins”)Dev Patel (“Lion”)Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Nocturnal Animals”)

Best Television Series - Drama“Game of Thrones”“Stranger Things”“This Is Us”“Westworld”“The Crown”

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy“Atlanta”“blackish”“Mozart in the Jungle”“Transparent”“Veep”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion PictureNaomie Harris (“Moonlight”)Nicole Kidman (“Lion”)Octavia Spencer (“Hidden Figures”)Michelle Williams (“Manchester by the Sea”)Viola Davis (“Fences”)

2Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyAnnette Bening (“20th Century Women”)Lily Collins (“Rules Don’t Apply”)Hailee Steinfeld (“The Edge of Seventeen”)Emma Stone (“La La Land”)Meryl Streep (“Florence Foster Jenkins”)

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The new update of “One Day at a Time” teams you for the first time with iconic television producer Norman Lear. What are your thoughts about him?Oh, he is marvelous! I’ve always wanted to work with him and as we both got older, I thought, “Well, I guess it’s never gonna happen.” Everybody has said, “What made you decide to do this?” And I say, “Are you serious? Norman Lear!”(His being) 94 means nothing in terms of his alertness. He is just an astonishing man, with a terrific sense of humor. I loved those shows (that he did, such as “All in the Family” and “Maude”). I was a huge fan of them, and I feel that way about this show, too.I feel it’s setting a new standard, if you want to call it that, for a show about a Cuban-American family. I’ve seen some efforts (toward that) on TV that are really not very good. I won’t mention names, obviously, but this one just sets a fabulous standard.

Do you hope to return to “Jane the Virgin” as a guest star?Oh, it broke my heart that they wanted me to do the last episode of last season – and it was happening on the very day we were doing our first table read of the first episode of “One Day at a Time.” It just broke my heart. I love doing (“Jane”). I’m hoping they’ll call again.

Your career has spanned so much, including your voice work on the Sprout children’s series “Nina’s World,” what’s the nature of the fan letters you receive these days?I get fan mail from all ages! I have baby boomers, the “baby babies,” and people my age. Just all kinds of people, and I love that.

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Why do you think there is such a dearth of young people coming into the construction trades?I don’t know. I think it’s not so much the young people’s issue, it’s the exposure issue. I think the concentration of – as Mike Rowe would say when I met him – you can’t underestimate the value of an education. But does everyone need a four-year college degree? And I think that’s where you have to change the mind-set. There’s a lot of other opportunity out there and people are not being exposed. So without the exposure, it’s really not their fault that they’re not interested in it. They’re just not getting exposed. So I think the main thing we have to do is we have to expose it in every possible way we can and I think then if they start to see it maybe they’ll change their attitude. And parents have to change their attitude.

Have you seen this problem at all on “This Old House”?Well, I think we’re very fortunate in that we’ve always been connected – “This Old House” has been around for 38 years now (laughs) and from the very beginning that problem wasn’t as serious as it is now. And with Tom Silva and his crew and all the people connected with him, he has the ability to pull together the contractors that he needs.But on the other hand, I will say that it’s still difficult to find the people that you need. ... I hear even homeowners saying, “I can’t even find an electrician or a plumber to come and work on my house.” So we’re on the lucky side of the situation, I would say, and actually that puts us in a better position to be the ones to bring more attention to the rewards of being in the skilled trades and our job will be to inspire people to take a look and to find ways that we can bring exposure to young people back again because it was lost a long time ago when vocational arts were taken out of the high-school curriculum. ...But my perspective is that young people or anyone for that matter will not know if they love to do this work unless they’re exposed to it and we’ve lost the ability to expose young people to these great trades. And so we have the opportunity to try to present more awareness and empower young people to actually get into these trades.


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TASTYGEORGE DICKIE’S WHAT'S FOR DINNER

When was your last vacation, where and why?

“I’d have to say the last place we went was Vegas. My girlfriend and I went on a business/fun trip ... we just ended up hitting like five restaurants over two days (laughs) and just gorged ourselves. So we went to Carnevino, Mario Batali’s restaurant out there; we went to Tom Colicchio’s Craftsteak. It was sort of like a progressive meal of like, ‘Let’s see which one of these celebrity chefs is really the best.’ (laughs) They had no idea they were competing against each other for our affection but they were.”

What book are you currently reading?

“I’m reading a book called, ‘So I Heard You Paint Houses.’ It’s about what is supposedly the true story of how Jimmy Hoffa was murdered.”

What did you have for dinner last night?

“Last night, I had leftover wraps from this place called Bite Me Café in Burbank (Calif.). ... It was a chicken pesto wrap, which was really, really good.”

What is your next project?

“Before we started working on ‘Ginormous Food,’ I was working on a stand-up special. I’ve released a couple of albums so far and was getting ready to do a third and then when we started working on ‘Ginormous’ about a year ago, I kind of put that on the back burner, no pun intended.”

Despite what the title may imply, Food Network’s “Ginormous Food” isn’t about enormous meals and gluttony.

True, in each episode of the Friday series, there are things like a 14-pound bagel, a 30-pound stack of pancakes and a 17-pound chicken gyro.

But those, host Josh Denny explains, are typically made for parties to be divided into individual portions, and a lot of thought and craft goes into them.

“These chefs put a lot of time into conceptualizing these dishes,” Denny says, “so it wasn’t just 30 pounds of pancakes. It was 30 pounds of delicious pancakes. And the process is so long. ... Just to make one of those pancakes, I mean, you have to wait for roasted baby pumpkins, you know there’s a ton of seasonings that go in and it’s a labor of love and they put a lot of time into making sure these aren’t just impressive in terms of the size but there’s a lot of flavor going on in it, too.”

In each of the six episodes, Denny goes around the country to various cities and eateries to check out these outsized dishes, see how they’re made and meet the people who make them. In last week’s premiere episode, Denny went to Louisville, Ky., to try the roast beef sandwich on a 12-inch roll; other locales include Baltimore (the aforementioned stack of flapjacks), Nashville, Tenn. (the gyro), Cincinnati and Richmond, Va.

In the installment airing Friday, Jan. 13, Denny is in his hometown of Philadelphia to showcase an oversized version of what he says is the city’s signature sandwich, which is not what you would think it is.

“For me growing up, my favorite Philly thing was always the roast pork,” he says, “so I was really psyched when we went to Jake’s Sandwich Board and we did a roast pork sandwich instead of a cheesesteak because that’s really as much of a traditional Philadelphia thing; it’s just less publicized nationally. So when a lot of people go to Philly (and) they go ‘I want a cheesesteak,’ that’s how you know they’re probably a tourist. Whereas (if) somebody comes to Philly and goes, ‘Take me to the best roast pork place,’ that’s probably somebody who grew up in the area.”

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NORah O’DONNellAs a political reporter and chief White House correspondent at CBS and NBC from 1999 to 2012, current “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Norah O’Donnell has covered the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

In that time, she’s had a front-row seat for innumerable press conferences and logged hundreds of thousand of miles traveling with the president on Air Force One or the press plane. And she’s observed the individual work styles of each chief executive.

Bush, for instance, was an early riser who liked get to work in the Oval Office at around 7 a.m. and work until about 6 p.m., pausing for an afternoon workout. Obama, on the other hand, likes to work out in the morning, so he’d get to work around 9 or 9:30 a.m. but work late into the night.

When traveling, Clinton was usually a few hours behind schedule, while Bush was punctual and Obama was on time or early.

And when Donald Trump takes office in about two weeks, the White House press corps will once again adapt to a new president’s way of doing things.

“The rhythms of the White House reflect the president and the president’s schedule and how they like to do things ...,” O’Donnell says. “And that’s one of the interesting things about covering the president, is how they work, how they do business. And that tells you a lot about their leadership style, it tells you a lot about the way they’ll govern, the way they’ll direct the country.”

Much has been made about the president-elect’s saber rattling toward the media but O’Donnell expects that relationship to work out just fine.

“I actually think he respects the media very much and I think he recognizes the power of the media,” she says. “And you know, that shows by him inviting us up to Trump Tower to meet with him.”

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of ‘the Mick’ tuesday on Fox and ‘it’s always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Wednesday on FXX

On “The Mick,” are you enjoying playing a broadcast-network character who can get away with questionable behavior?

For so long, characters needed to be likable, and I actually don’t think that’s necessarily true in a comedy. The circumstances are always positive here. You’re not rooting for (“The Mick’s” Mickey) to fail, because if she fails, these kids won’t have someone watching them.The other thing about Mickey is that while she’s not necessarily likable on the surface, once she gets into it, she really does end up taking this job on. She didn’t want to, but she falls in love with the littlest boy and really cares about him. She wants to keep these kids safe, and she ultimately ends up being a much better parent to them than their own parents were. What do you think Mickey’s modus operandi is, beyond the money she was promised for minding the youngsters?

Her values are completely backward, but she is giving this every effort and doing her best. She just might not have the same values she wants to teach them, but her ultimate desire is to protect them and keep them safe and help them take care of themselves in the world. There are some redeeming things there; we just don’t hit you over the head with sappiness.

With the 12th season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” also running now, how is it to be in two series at once?

It’s very flattering, the idea of doing two shows at the same time ...but honestly, it’s a lot of work, and I have two little boys. I said, “If (The Mick’) is not the show I want it to be, I really would rather not do it. I’d rather spend my time at home, or doing something else.”It had to be fun, and it had to be exactly what I wanted it to be in order to sign on. And everyone’s really been so wonderful. It’s another little family that we’ve created.

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“All I get to say – quite honestly – is, ‘How lucky can a girl get?’ I am the fortunate woman who was asked to be in those iconic shows. It’s a great honor, and I’m very proud of them. They give me as much pleasure as everybody else.” – Julie Andrews, seen recently on “Great Performances: From Vienna — The New Year’s Celebration” on PBS, about the enduring popularity of her movies “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music”

“It is a lot more work. It takes every ounce of yourself because it’s your physical, your mental being and your spirit all in one. You need to bring all of those to bear because you have to be physically prepared to walk on the stage and you have to be mentally ready to interact with the audience. And then your spirit just has to be right and just ready to come to work.” – Russell Hornsby of “Grimm” on NBC, on acting in theater

“I feel very heard. I don’t feel like I’m being ignored when I say, ‘Hey, guys, this is not working for me.’ It’s everyone’s goal to make sure that I feel comfortable in this, because it was a big thing to take on.” — Kaitlin Olson of “The Mick” on Fox and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” on FXX, about having a co-executive producer credit on “The Mick”

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Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of “The New Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC“It’s all basically Mickey Mouse and stuff for the kids. But I do record ‘The Walking Dead’ for myself and then also when there’s like ‘Frozen’ on TV or any kid movies, ‘Tarzan,” I’ll tape that so my kids can fall asleep to it. So basically a parent DVR (laughs).”

Don Henley, seen recently on “The 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors” on CBS“As any of my friends will tell you, I watch The Weather Channel a lot ... and I watch it because it’s one of the only things on television that’s real. And I watch PBS; I love ‘Poldark’ and all the ‘NOVA’ episodes, and there are a lot of great shows about music there. I caught ‘Soundbreaking’ recently and ordered the DVD immediately. It’s great stuff.”

Janina Gavankar of “Sleepy Hollow” on Fox“All of them. I’m freaking out over ‘Westworld’ right now just like everybody else in the world. I love ‘Better Things.’ ‘Atlanta’ is incredible. Those are the current three.”

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Ryan Seacrest, seen recently on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2017” on ABCI’m obsessed with Anthony Bourdain’s shows, I finally got into ‘House of Cards,’ I watched ‘The Night Of,’ and I love ‘Chef’s Table.’ ”“

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BY JAY BOBBIN In an all-star cast of a major event, it’s always nice to get the opening spot.

Grammy-winning singer Patti Austin had that position last September at the inaugural ceremony for the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Staged at the city’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the evening was captured for the new ABC special “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America,” airing Thursday, Jan. 12.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were present for the celebration, whose talent roster was an entertainment who’s-who. Among the many others included are Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones and his daughter Rashida, Tom Hanks, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Gladys Knight, Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Dave Chappelle, Savion Glover, Dave Grohl, Octavia Spencer, Ne-Yo, Doug E. Fresh and Chris Tucker.


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“That this was about our history, and that we were having the opportunity to herald that musically and creatively, was so powerful,” Austin says. “I had whiplash for the first 15 minutes, because if there was one person to my left I hadn’t seen for 20 years, there was somebody to my right who I’d just worked with two years ago. There’s a saying where I come from that if you hug somebody, you say, ‘Press my laundry.’ Well, my laundry was well-pressed by the end of that night! There was just some magical stuff happening.”

One of the main perks for Austin in doing “Taking the Stage” was the chance to be among the first to explore the new museum: “I saw it under the auspices of the most magnificent guide you could ever hope for, and it happened to be a seven-year-old girl who’s the daughter of Dave Chappelle. I had never met Dave, and he’s one of the few people I’ve ever wanted to meet, because I admire his humor and what he tries to do with what he says.

“I have this furry cover for my iPhone, and his daughter fell in love with it and grabbed it and said, ‘Let’s go!’ When you walk in the building, there are two escalators, and you can decide how you want to get our history – from the bottom up or the top down. And of course, Dave Chappelle’s daughter said, ‘Let’s start from the top down,’ so that’s what we did.”

Another major lure for Austin to participate in the special was the involvement of Quincy Jones, the showbiz icon who’s an executive producer of the program along with

variety-show veteran Don Mischer. Austin says Jones is her “godfather. He’s family, so everything takes on a different kind of hue when he’s there, and I would say it’s more about being family than about the music or the work at this point. He calls, I answer; that’s how we roll. It’s always going to be high quality with the best people, and the most fun you can have with your clothes on. That’s why I show up for the guy.”

With the timing of its telecast, “Taking the Stage” will mark one of the last appearances by the Obamas before they leave the White House, and Austin reflects that “the President’s body language had me rolling. A lot of people weren’t paying attention, but every time I’d see him on camera, I’d go, ‘Look at how he’s sitting in that chair.’ It was like it was the most comfortable chair ever. If he could have put his leg over the arm, he would have. He was like, ‘Yeah. That’s right. This is us. It’s our day.’ And it was just awesome.”

Known for such hits as “Baby, Come to Me” and “It’s Gonna Be Special” – plus tribute albums honoring Ella Fitzgerald and George and Ira Gershwin – Austin appreciates having had her early look at the museum, and she’s looking forward to going back when she has more time. “I tell everybody that if they really want to see that museum, it’s a week,” she says. “I would give each floor a day, because there’s so much information and so much memorabilia and so many stories. It spans every aspect of the African American experience.”

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BY GEORGE DICKIEWith every sneer, arched eyebrow and cock of the head, Neil Patrick Harris makes clear that he is enjoying himself thoroughly as the dastardly Count Olaf in Netflix’s Victorian-style seriocomic tale “A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

Based on the best-selling books by Daniel Handler and dropping with eight episodes on Friday, Jan. 13, the hourlong series from director/producer Barry Sonnenfeld (“Men in Black,” “The Addams Family”) opens by warning viewers to “look away” as narrator Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton, “Rules of Engagement,” “Seinfeld”) tells the “very sad” tale of the Baudelaire children (Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, Presley Smith), three kids orphaned when a fire at their mansion claims the lives of their wealthy parents.

They’re taken into temporary custody by a well-meaning banker (K. Todd Freeman, “Dangerous Minds”) before being handed off to a distant relative living nearby, a struggling-with-good-reason actor named Olaf (a nearly unrecognizable Harris, “How I Met Your Mother,” “Doogie Howser, M.D.”). And Olaf, who doesn’t particularly like children, takes them in anyway, mainly because he sees dollar signs after learning a large inheritance will soon be coming when the eldest turns of age.

But when his motives are exposed and the kids are taken away, the inept thesp turns to a series of disguises and ruses to remain in their lives and hopefully trick them out of their parents’ estate.

To inhabit the balding, furry-browed Olaf, the lean, youthful Harris had to undergo about 2 1/2 hours in makeup each morning. And then, he says, the challenge became getting the prosthetics to perform as he wanted them to do.

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“I feel like at times when I was overacting,” Harris says, “my face didn’t move as much as I assumed it was because of all the prosthetics. So it’s interesting to see how it all looks ... from the other side because when you’re playing Olaf and you’re feeling like you’re gnawing on the scenery and then you realize that it was a little more subtle, I don’t know quite what to make of that.”

As Olaf employs his various scams and becomes other characters to trick the kids, Harris found himself with the task of portraying a bad actor trying to play someone else.

“It was a little meta for my brain parts but it was an exciting challenge,” Harris says with a laugh. “It became a task of mine to continually question whether Olaf was coming through in the other characters,” he says, “and when I was playing Olaf to make sure that I was real enough and yet ridiculous enough.”

By contrast, Warburton had to play it totally deadpan as Snicket, the all-omniscient narrator who doesn’t interact with any other the other characters.

“The challenge is that my relating is to the camera the whole time, whoever I’m speaking to through the viewer,” he says. “The viewer is my acting partner in effect, which doesn’t make me a really good listener as far as an actor because acting is reacting. I’m doing a lot of ‘This is what I think about this situation.’ But that’s somebody’s position. ...”

“I like it because there’s some depth and breadth to it,” he says of the storyline. “You know, some of it’s funny, some of it’s not. You know, there’s the dry intellectual humor to it and it is humorous. ... I couldn’t imagine these books being in any more deft hands than Barry Sonnenfeld.”

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BY GEORGE DICKIEThe grainy 12-minute cellphone video is shocking and chilling.

Four men clinging to the wreckage of a boat are picked off one by one by gunfire. As their blood paints the inky blue ocean around them red, the camera then turns to the people who apparently did the shooting. All are laughing, having a good time and snapping photos with their cellphones from a nearby boat.

This video, which went viral after being posted to YouTube in 2014, became the centerpiece of an investigation that is the subject of the National Geographic documentary series “Lawless Oceans,” premiering Tuesday, Jan. 10.

With no crime scene to look at and few clues except what is on the video, international maritime investigator Karsten von Hoesslin takes up the case. He learns that the video was posted by someone in Fiji and judging by the appearances of the men and the vessel that the murders likely took place in the Pacific or Indian Ocean or the South China Sea, where crime in international waters runs particularly rampant.

And those crimes include illegal fishing, piracy, drug and human trafficking. As clues take him around the world to places such as Fiji, Taiwan, England and Iran, von Hoesslin encounters roadblocks from governments fearful of looking bad – or worse, being implicated.

“One of the things that we knew from the beginning,” executive producer Robert Palumbo says, “was this is not a typical crime in that you don’t have a CSI team going out there and collecting evidence and looking at samples of what’s in the water and blood and ballistics. We don’t have that kind of thing. All we have to go on is this videotape.

“The videotape, we refer to it as our Zapruder film. ... We dig into what’s in that tape. What do we see? Karsten analyzes every detail of that videotape for clues about the big three questions: where, who and why. And he, in the course of the six episodes, follows the trail of clues and he follows it all over the world ... as he closes in on the facts behind the case.”

While Palumbo not surprisingly won’t say whether von Hoesslin solves the case, he does allow that he was “very successful” at answering the big questions and that he was able to determine the identity of at least one of the suspects.

“One of the main goals in the investigation is to build a case ...,” Palumbo says. “He has to build a case to get all the elements that are convincing enough and will withstand a court of law to present to governments to prosecute. Because Karsten is not a cop, he’s not law enforcement. He’s an investigator but he’s an independent so he can’t personally arrest anyone, so he definitely needs to get at least one government on his side and he also tries to get international law enforcement organizations like Interpol also on his side.”


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BY GEORGE DICKIE There is an old adage that says that when you fail to plan, you’re actually planning to fail, something that is certainly in evidence in a new cooking competition series premiering this week on Fox.

In “My Kitchen Rules,” an eight-episode hourlong series premiering Thursday, Jan. 12, celebrity duos cook for one another in a series of intimate dinner parties in their Hollywood homes, after which the meal is critiqued by the contestants and judges Curtis Stone and Cat Cora. The celebrity duo with the lowest score at the end of each round is eliminated and the two pairs left standing in the finale will battle it out for the “My Kitchen Rules” title.

The celebs taking part are reality show star Brandi Glanville and her partner Dean Sheremet, R&B artists and siblings Brandy & Ray J, entertainer Lance Bass and mom Diane, Andrew Dice Clay and wife Valerie, and Naomi Judd and her husband, Larry Strickland.

The series is based on a wildly successful Australian series titled “My Restaurant Rules,” which was hosted in its first season by Stone. Here, the Australian chef, restaurateur and TV personality says that the quality of the food served was “all over the place,” but he and Cora nonetheless felt lucky to be dining amid such Hollywood opulence.

“It’s almost a bit voyeuristic,” he says, “because you’re going into these incredible homes and watching these celebs in their own kitchens, but they’re out to impress, of course, so we got to sort of go on that journey and you can tell so much. You know, I always say the best food tells a real story


and you can tell such a story about yourself or your relationship or your family or whatever through what you put on the plate, and we really got to experience that.”

While Stone also saw varying levels of competency among the celebs, from simple home cooking to professional-caliber skill, he did notice one common mistake that kept cropping up.

“I guess the lack of planning was the thing that stood out to me,” he says. “I think when you’re hosting a dinner, you’re cooking for a lot more people than you’re used to and there were quite a few long waits on the show because dishes just weren’t ready in time and that was, of course, something that the other diners would be pretty disappointed in ... Something comes out and no matter how good it is at that point, you’ve blown it to a certain extent.

“So that was, I guess, something that as a chef you take for granted, that you need to plan and you need to organize and you need to know exactly how long it’s going to take. But as a home cook, you’re not in that mind-set as much.”

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FULL NAME: Ethan HappBORN: May 7, 1996BIRTHPLACE: Milan, Ill.HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6 foot 9 inches/235 poundsTEAM: Wisconsin BadgersPOSITION: Power forwardNO.: 22

CLASS: Redshirt sophomoreMAJOR: Communication artsHONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: Big Ten freshman of the year, 2016; Big Ten all-defensive team, 2016

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BY DAN LADDThe Wisconsin Badgers are once again rising in the NCAA men’s basketball rankings thanks in part to lanky sophomore Ethan Happ, the team’s hard-working power forward. Happ and the Badgers visit Purdue, Sunday, Jan. 8, on CBS in a matchup of two of the Big Ten’s better teams this season.

Happ sat out as a redshirt when the Badgers made a run for the NCAA title two seasons ago; coming up short to Duke in the NCAA Championship game under former coach Bo Ryan. They weren’t expected to be as competitive in the 2015-16 season, especially after Ryan retired in December, conceding the job to Greg Gard who eventually turned the team around. They entered the NCAA Tournament as a seventh seed and made the Sweet 16 before bowing to Notre Dame.

Happ was there for it all, being only the third freshman to start on opening day for Ryan and then in all 35 regular season games. He piled up solid statistics along the way on both offense and defense, quickly becoming known as one of the most well-rounded players in college basketball, averaging 11 points and seven rebounds per game. He also joined Kevin Durant and DeJuan Blair, being just the third freshman in the NCAA over the past 15 seasons to score 400 points, have 60 steals and 30 blocks.

This season his average time on the court is down by four minutes per game but through mid-December he was averaging 13 ppg with the rebounds, blocks and steals also coming. NBA scouts are surely taking note.ethanHapp

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It may be past the holiday season, but a fact that stands year-round is that one of the toughest things to do in movies is a successful Christmas comedy. There are classic exceptions, such as “A Christmas Story” and “Home Alone,” but many others go for the laughs without adding the heart.

The latest in that line is “Office Christmas Party,” but you can tell from the ads that it’s going for bawdy yuletide humor, so it should come as no surprise that that’s precisely what you get from it.

Jennifer Aniston does her “Horrible Bosses” act again as ... well, a horrible boss who vows to slice the staff of a tech company’s Chicago office in half, unless it can boost its quarterly returns before the soon-to-end year is out. To keep the focus on work, she cancels the office Christmas party. And of course, just as the name of the movie tells us, that simply will not do.

What’s potentially good about a premise like this is that you can assemble a wide variety of performers as the workers. Here, they include Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn and Emmy winners Courtney B. Vance (“The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”) and Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”). “SNL’s” Vanessa

Bayer and Randall Park (“Fresh Off the Boat”) also show up, and they all mix and match in various combinations, but those never really mesh.

The most notable co-star turns out to be comic T.J. Miller, and it’s more for what he doesn’t do – his usual walk on the wild side, playing characters who are very much on the edge. There’s a sweet spirit to his portrayal here of the office manager, who’s the brother of Aniston’s much more brusque and self-involved alter

ego. The vast difference between the siblings is what sets them apart, and where Miller benefits.

Directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck are known for taking what seem to be very basic subjects (an office Christmas party, a figure-skating competition in “Blades of Glory,” a surrogate pregnancy in the Aniston-and-Bateman-starring “The Switch”) and trying to make them spectacles of offbeat humor. Often, one moment may not work while the next one might, but the ratio ultimately is too “off” in this case.

It’s a dilemma when a party doesn’t come together, and for all its lopsided seasonal spirit, that’s a problem shared by “Office Christmas Party.”

JAY BOBBIN'S THEATRICAL MOVIE REVIEW

‘OFFiCe ChrisTmas ParTy’ gives guests, and viewers, minimal fun

MOVIES

Our Take

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“THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN” (Jan. 17): Emily Blunt stars as a troubled commuter who believes harm has come to a woman she frequently has observed. (R: AS, N, P, V)

“OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL” (Jan. 17): A fake medium (Elizabeth Reaser) puts herself and her daughters in peril when she summons actual supernatural forces. (PG-13: AS, P, V)

“THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS” (Jan. 24): A childless, island-bound couple (Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander) claims an infant they find as their own. (PG-13: AS, P)

“THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH” (Jan. 24): The David Bowie-starring sci-fi classic gets “Limited Collector’s Edition” treatment, with a vintage Bowie interview included. (R: AS, N)

“MASTERMINDS” (Jan. 31): An armored-truck driver (Zach Galifianakis) becomes the fall guy for a thieving couple (Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson). (PG-13: AS, P, V)

“QUEEN OF KATWE” (Jan. 31): Mastering the game of chess has a major effect on a Ugandan youngster (Madina Nalwanga); David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o also star in the true drama. (PG: AS)

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“THE BIRTH OF A NATION”Referenced often at the time of the film’s theatrical run, controversy over the past of writer, director and star Nate Parker likely had a box-office impact on this stirring historical drama. He gives a commanding performance as Nat Turner, the bible-educated slave who ultimately inspired a rebellion while being taken on a tour by his master (Armie Hammer) to preach to – and supposedly subdue – others who were owned. Also in the impressive cast are Aja Naomi King (“How to Get Away With Murder”), Penelope Ann Miller, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Aunjanue Ellis (“Quantico”) and Roger Guenveur Smith. ››› (R: AS, N, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)


Family Viewing RatingsAS Adult situations P Profanity V Violence N Nudity GV Graphic Violence

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 89 pm on Smithsonian ChannelThe Real Mad Men of AdvertisingMissing Don Draper, Peggy Olson, Pete Campbell and the period world of their Emmy-winning AMC drama? This new documentary series explores the fascinating commercials and ad campaigns of mid-20th-century America, also incorporating clips and interviews with “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner and his cast. The series premiere, “The 1950s,” examines how advertisers teased and tantalized post-World War II consumers with their visions of futuristic homes, cars and household appliances.

MONDAY, JANUARY 910:01 pm on ABCBig FanHow big a fan can someone be of a certain personality? Based on a “Jimmy Kimmel Live” segment, with Kimmel among the executive producers here, this new game show tests that question. In each Andy Richter-hosted episode, three people vie to prove who knows the most about a certain personality – and in the case of this premiere, Matthew McConaughey (who appears here) is the star in question. Another episode showcasing the NFL’s Aaron Rodgers follows.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1010 pm on FXTabooSet in 19th-century London, this new eight-episode British miniseries stars Tom Hardy (“The Revenant”) as James Keziah Delaney, who returns home from the ends of the earth after a voyage so extended that he long ago was presumed dead. James has returned to take over his father’s shipping empire, unaware of a dark family mystery that soon has deadly enemies scuttling out of the woodwork. The large ensemble cast also includes Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin, David Hayman, Michael Kelly and Jason Watkins.

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Andy Richter hosts Big Fan

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1110:30 pm on Comedy CentralJeff & Some AliensIn this new animated comedy series, Brett Gelman (“Another Period”) provides the voice of Jeff, the most average guy on Earth – well, apart from the fact that he shares his grungy one-bedroom apartment with three extraterrestrials (all voiced by Alessandro Minoli). In the series premiere, “Jeff and Some Honor Killings,” Jeff inadvertently kills an alien on the planet of Azuria, which will ignite an intergalatic war unless he restores balance by killing an Earthling.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 128 p.m. on E!Revenge Body With Khloe KardashianA Khardashian who has overcome her fair share of body and self-esteem issues endeavors to show others how to remake themselves from the inside out in this new eight-episode unscripted series in which she recruits help from top fitness and nutrition experts. In the series premiere, she focuses on Will, whose weight gain has contributed to recent heartbreak. Khloe and her roster of experts help this guy get his life back together and understand the meaning of true love.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1310 pm on DiscoveryThe WheelExtreme survival shows get a makeover with this new entry, in which six survivalists are challenged to endure grueling landscapes in South America as a wheel – its rotation determined by phases of the moon – moves them from one harsh site to another. To make it through the 60-day competition, each contender must fend for his or her life in a half-dozen different terrains ranging from a frigid tundra to treacherous rainforests and rugged mountains, each of which demands a different skill set.

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FAVORITE SHOWS

RETURNING FAVORITES:SUNDAY, JANUARY 8NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS, 8 pm) WINTER PREMIEREMadam Secretary (CBS, 9 pm) WINTER PREMIEREElementary (CBS, 10 pm) WINTER PREMIERETUESDAY, JANUARY 10This Is Us (NBC, 9 pm) WINTER PREMIEREBeing Mary Jane (BET, 10 pm) SEASON PREMIEREMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC, 10 pm) WINTER PREMIEREWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11Are You the One? (MTV, 9 pm) SEASON PREMIEREGirlfriends’ Guide to Divorce (Bravo, 10 pm) SEASON PREMIEREWorkaholics (Comedy Central, 10 pm) SEASON PREMIERETHURSDAY, JANUARY 12Colony (USA Network, 10 pm) SEASON PREMIEREFRIDAY, JANUARY 13Bring It! (Lifetime, 9 pm) SEASON PREMIEREThe Rap Game (Lifetime, 10:02 pm) SEASON PREMIERESATURDAY, JANUARY 14Home Made Simple (OWN, 9 am) SEASON PREMIERE

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