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John Griffiths’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridGetting It Right: News Icon Judy Woodruff
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With one of the most volatile midterm U.S. elections in decades approaching like a hurricane, viewers might be comforted to know that Judy Woodruff-the news icon for people who like their news straight, without constant "Breaking News" graphics-is here to help 'em navigate the proverbial winds and choppy waves.
Ethan Hawke Stars as John Brown in 'The Good Lord Bird'
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Midlife comeback kid Ethan Hawke tells AARP about turning 50, marriage advice, and his eight-part TV version of James McBride's National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird (Showtime, Feb. 16), about abolitionist John Brown, whose 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, led to the Civil War.
A Conversation With Donald Sutherland
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Grownups know Donald Sutherland, 82, from M.A.S.H. and Klute, and kids love his evil President Snow in The Hunger Games. He's a Hollywood patriarch whose five kids all work in show biz (son Kiefer on Designated Survivor andgranddaughter Sarah as Julia Louis-Dreyfus' daughter on Veep) . . .
Trading Places: Legion's Rachel Keller
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One of the peculiar pleasures of Legion, FX's heady Marvel drama that just started season two, is Rachel Keller's body-switching character, Sydney "Syd" Barrett. Her superpower goes haywire when people touch her out of the blue - making her romance with telekinetic David Haller (Dan Stevens) tricky.
TV Review: 'Vida' on Starz
Variety
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The rare drama series to focus on Latino characters - who are female and/or queer, no less - " Vida" only somewhat lives up to the color, richness and excitement maybe promised by its title (the Spanish feminine noun for "life").
'Get Shorty': A TV Hit on Epix - TV for Grownups
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But now comes this fast and loose series adaptation. Leonard's twisty caper has been tamed, the characters merged and renamed, the murder and mayhem reframed. Shorty the TV show wows by making its two main scrapers richly lovable.