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HBO shot Fatherland in Prague in 1994 – a year in which we were somewhat pre-occupied in the Republic of South Africa – so I missed it entirely. In fact I’d never even heard of it until I caught it on tv today. Based on a Thomas Harris novel of the same name, it’s set…
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Little gets the Redhead into a froth, but news that HBO is creating a mini-series out of George R. R. Martin’s bestselling ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ novels was met with barely disclosed excitement in the Evans-Cuff household. The novels, set in a fictional and mystical land of kings and mercenaries and soothsayers and…
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You know that pop art picture where Bogie and Marilyn and James Dean are hanging out at Phillie’s night diner? Elvis is the bar-keep? That one. I was (bizarrely) reminded of that picture in the first few episodes of the award-winning HBO mini-series John Adams; just about everyone you’ve ever read about in connection with…
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