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What’s Streaming HELLO, PRIVILEGE. IT’S ME, CHELSEA Stream on Netflix. In 2016, the comedian Chelsea Handler shifted toward documentary storytelling with her “Chelsea Does,” to explore questions she had about marriage, Silicon Valley, drugs and racism. In his review of that show for The New York Times, Neil Genzlinger likened it to documentaries “that ramble and lack focus and are more akin to visiting with a topic than to making a point about it.” But Handler has decided to delve back into the subject of race in “Hello, Privilege,” a full-length documentary in which this former talk show host What’s on TV COMEDY CENTRAL ROAST OF ALEC BALDWIN 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. At this stage in his career, Alec Baldwin is perhaps best known for impersonating President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” for laughs. Now he will be the one in the hot seat (just as Trump was in 2010) for one of Comedy Central’s famous roasts. … [Read more...] about What’s on TV Sunday: Chelsea Handler and Roasting Alec Baldwin

CLEVELAND, Ohio – There’s a reason the service organization Dance/USA held its annual conference in Cleveland last June: this is a vibrant dance community.Movers and shakers in the dance field descended on Northeast Ohio last summer only to confirm what those who live here have long known, what the 2019-20 season calendar makes clear beyond doubt.Even early in the season, before many groups have made or announced plans, the listings below are full of attractive offerings. Cleveland Ballet, for instance, is staging not one but two story ballets: “Carmen” and “The Magic Flute.” Verb Ballets, too, is raising its profile, and adding to its already long list of collaborative partners.Veteran presenter DanceCleveland also has made some of its boldest choices yet, searching ever further and more widely for the true cutting edge, and Cleveland Public Theatre continues to perform the great public service that is DanceWorks.Our schools, meanwhile – … [Read more...] about For dance lovers, Cleveland’s a plum: Fall preview 2019

What’s Streaming UNBELIEVABLE Stream on Netflix. This limited series, based on a real case, follows the story of Marie (Kaitlyn Dever), a young woman in “The Sinner,” “The Tale” and “Share,” the series explores the ways in which memory and credibility are sometimes called into question in cases involving sexual assault and trauma. What’s on TV MAIGRET 7 p.m. on Ovation. In this television adaptation, Rowan Atkinson plays Jules Maigret, the fictional French detective Georges Simenon’s novels THE CHEERLEADER ESCORT 8 p.m. on Lifetime. School is back in session, and to celebrate, Lifetime has been screening cheerleader-themed programming throughout September. The latest installment of its Cheer, Rally, Kill series follows Cassie (Alexandra Beaton), a college freshman who finds herself enmeshed in a ring of cheerleaders who moonlight as escorts for rich alumni. After one of the cheerleaders becomes pregnant and dies under mysterious … [Read more...] about What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘Maigret’

The new season of “Saturday Night Live” will not begin for two more weeks, but the long-running sketch comedy series is already drawing scrutiny for a new hire who has yet to appear on the show. On Thursday, “S.N.L.” said that it had hired Shane Gillis, a 31-year-old stand-up comedian, to join the program as a featured performer. Within hours of the announcement, video recordings of Gillis in which he is seen using bigoted language were circulating widely on the internet and drawing criticism from other comedians and comedy fans alike. In a video of one of his podcasts, Gillis used a slur for Chinese people while talking about Chinatown and adopted a caricature accent while mocking Chinese people who are learning to speak English. In another podcast recording, Gillis used homophobic slurs to describe Judd Apatow, the comedy filmmaker and producer, and the comedian Chris Gethard. Gillis has said he had no intention of hurting anyone with his work, but … [Read more...] about Shane