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Movies & TV

What to watch this week

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Thursday, January 27

BARRETT-JACKSON AUTOMOBILE AUCTION Gear-head heaven: 24 hours of live coverage of the annual Scottsdale, Arizona, classic car auction, a seemingly endless parade of 50s Detroit iron, 60s muscle, retro hot rods, one-of-a-kind customs and European exotics. 7 pm on Speed, repeated at midnight. Continues at 5 pm Friday, 2 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday (repeated at 8 pm)

Friday, January 28

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Quirky pop rockers Guided by Voices appear in concert before calling it quits after 20-some years and countless recordings. Co-billed Modest Mouse , take note. 12:30 am on PBS

MONDO TOPLESS (1966, dir Russ Meyer, w/ Babette Bardot, Donna X and Abundavita) Big-bazoomed babes peel to cheesy acid rock in lurid sexploitation flick. 12:45 am on Bravo

Saturday, January 29

DAME EDNA – LIVE AT THE PALACE The antipodean housewife superstar storms Buckingham Palace and invites Jeremy Irons , the Stones’ Ron Wood and the Ozzy Osbourne clan over for a right knees-up. Subtitled. 9:45 pm on Bravo

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA A Cook’s Tour host and Kitchen Confidential author Tony Bourdain travels to Minneapolis’s Mall of America to investigate the culinary conflict raging between independent food producers and the multinational chains out to destroy them. 11 pm on Food

Sunday, January 30

BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTS Nobel Peace Prize concert. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones host the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize concert. Among those also taking the Oslo stage: Tim McGraw, the Chieftains with Rosanne Cash, Sweden’s Cardigans and Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab. 8 am on A&E

Nobel Peace Prize concert. Nobel Peace Prize concert.

Among those also taking the Oslo stage:

Monday, January 31

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Tonight’s episode chronicles the career of resilient Cuban leader Fidel Castro , one that’s survived those of 10 U.S. presidents as well as an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts and an economic embargo. Includes interviews with Castro’s relatives, childhood friends and fellow rebel leaders as well as Bay of Pigs veterans, human rights activists and journalists. 9 pm on PBS, repeated at 3:30 am

Tuesday, February 1

PARIS: THE CRAZY YEARS No, not more of Ms. Hilton, but a Roaring 20s-era portrait of the City of Light featuring interviews with artists Salvador Dali and Man Ray , writers Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas , Natalie Barney and John Glassco and stage queens Josephine Baker and Cole Porter. 8 pm on CBC

Wednesday, February 2

FLIPPING UNCLE KIMONO Actor and menswear designer John Malkovich stages a fashion show for his avant-garde Uncle Kimono line using judo fighters instead of male models. In the ensuing mayhem, the off-the-wall thesp loses his pants. 10 pm on City

THE CELLULOID CLOSET Based on gay historian Vito Russo ‘s book of the same name, this often amusing and sadly touching 95 doc examines Hollywood’s closeted onscreen treatment of homosexuality. With clips from Laurel and Hardy , Johnny Weissmuller and Marlene Dietrich as well as quips from Antonio Banderas , Gore Vidal , Shirley MacLaine , Tony Curtis , Whoopi Goldberg and Harvey Fierstein . Lily Tomlin narrates. 1:40 am on TVO

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