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Movies & TV

What to watch this week

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Thursday, May 20

RICHLER, INK NOW books editor Susan G. Cole joins Patricia Pearson and Rebecca Eckler in a discussion of the glut of new pregnancy books. 7:30 pm on Bravo!

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN Feeling Helen’s Kate Hudson flirts with the gap-toothed host, and OutKast make a rare – and controversial? – musical appearance. 11:35 pm on CBS/Omni1

Friday, May 21

THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW Check out this repeat performance and interview with Prince . Degeneres also appears on Letterman tonight with the Strokes . 10 am on Toronto1/CBS Letterman, 11:35 pm on CBS/Omni1

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS LIVE AT SLANE CASTLE Flea and the boys beat their chests for an appreciative Irish festival crowd. 3 pm on MuchMoreMusic

Saturday, May 22

THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW REVISITED Elderly TV legend Alan Brady ( Carl Reiner ) asks his retired comedy writers Rob Petrie (Van Dyke) and Sally Rogers (octogenarian child star Rose Marie ) to write his elegy. Petrie’s wife, Laura ( Mary Tyler Moore ), sobs, “Oh, Rob!” 9 pm on CBS

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND (1997, dir Richard Kwietniowski, with John Hurt, Jason Priestley and Maury Chaykin) Offbeat indie finds Hurt, playing an English professor and failed romantic named De’Ath, obsessed with an airhead Hollywood teen star (not Chaykin). 12:30 am on CHCH Sunday, May 23

MEAN STREETS (1973, dir Martin Scorsese, with Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Robert Carradine and David Carradine) Scorsese’s breakthrough pic, with period Ronnettes (Be My Baby) and Rolling Stones (Tell Me) soundtrack. 9 pm on History

WHEN WE WERE KINGS (1996, dir Leon Gast, with Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, Spike Lee and Miriam Makeba) This Oscar-winning documentary recreates the media circus and cultural impact surrounding Ali and Foreman’s 1974 Rumble In The Jungle prize fight in Zaire. 10 pm on Newsworld

Monday, May 24

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964, dir Richard Lester, with the Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell and Victor Spinetti) Shot quickly in gritty cinéma vérité black-and-white, the Beatles’ first feature might as well have been in technicolor considering the seismic effect Lester’s adoring portrait of the Fab Four had on a generation. 4 pm on Bravo

HIGHT ART (1998, dir Lisa Cholodenko, with Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Tammy Grimes and Patricia Clarkson) Bi-curious aspiring shutterbug infiltrates famous reclusive photographer’s world of sapphic sex, hard drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Sheedy’s amazing as the arty junkie. Showcase at 11 pm

LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN T-dot’s own Jim Carrey , Eric MacCormack and Barenaked Ladies get the hometown advantage on this repeat of a show shot here last February. 12:35 am NBC/CKVR, repeated Tuesday at 5 pm on Star

Tuesday, May 25

BREAKING GLASS (1980, dir Brian Gibson, with Hazel O’Connor, Phil Daniels, Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart) Teenage helium-voiced plastic punkette becomes a star no matter the cost. 9 pm on Bravo!

Wednesday, May 26

LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN Longhaired lunkhead rocker Andrew W.K. – who has just started a gig with MTV as an advice columnist – demonstrates how he likes to party hard. Tell me this guy isn’t on steroids. 12:35 am NBC/CKVR, repeated Thursday at 5 pm on Star

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