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This week in Newly Reviewed, Seph Rodney covers Deborah Roberts's collages, Ursula von Rydingsvard's wood outcroppings and Noel W Anderson's superstars.
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A new Bill Lawrence comedy starring Steve Carell and a new mystery starring Nicole Kidman are among this month's highlights.
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Longrunners Maybe Happy Ending and Chicago have a new look, while the new Broadways shows are unveiling their covers.
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Several promising titles are coming this month, including a new series starring Rachel Weisz and the feature-length sequel to "Peaky Blinders."
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For Lucille Ball completists, the release of Life with Lucy (1986), her ill-fated final sitcom, is most welcome. I Love Lucy/The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1951-60), The Lucy Show (1962-68), and Here's Lucy (1968-74) kept her on the network airwaves nearly constantly for a quarter of a century, but her return to theatrical features with Mame (1974) flopped badly, with Ball singled out for atypically harsh reviews. After that she did annual television specials for a few years, and was a frequent presenter at award shows. In November 1985 she starred in The Stone Pillow, a TV-movie in which she played an elderly homeless woman, and while that program received mixed reviews it did well enough in the ratings to prompt Ball and her (second) husband, comedian-producer Gary Morton, to dip into the sitcom well that had served her so reliably well and for so long....Read the entire review
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