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“Becoming
Cousteau”
(Nov. 24)
From Oscar-
nominated and
Emmy-winning
filmmaker Liz
Garbus (“The Farm:
Angola, USA,”
“What Happened,
Miss Simone?”)
comes this 2021
documentary that
uses newly restored
archival footage
to look at the life, passions, achievements and
tragedies surrounding celebrated explorer and
environmentalist Jacques Cousteau, who died in
1997 in Paris at age 87.
“Jungle Cruise”
(Available now)
From director Jaume
Collet-Serra (“The
Shallows”) comes this
2021 action adventure
set in 1916 that stars
Dwayne Johnson as a
riverboard captain who
takes a botanist (Emily
Blunt) and her brother
(Jack Whitehall) on a
perilous journey deep
into the Amazon in
search of a mythical
tree whose petals are thought to have healing
properties. Jesse Plemons and Paul Giamatti also
star.
“The Beatles: Get
Back” (Nov. 25)
Music fans will most
definitely take interest
in this three-part, six-
hour documentary
from “The Lord of the
Rings” director Peter
Jackson, which uses
in-studio footage shot
in early 1969 to show
how Paul McCartney,
John Lennon, George
Harrison and Ringo
Starr made their 12th
and final album “Let It Be.” (ORIGINAL)
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Christmas:
Letters to Santa”
(Available now)
When Kermit and
company accidentally
intercept three
children’s letters to
St. Nick, they vow
to hand-deliver them
to the North Pole
themselves with a
little help from their
friends. Whoopi
Goldberg, Tony Sirico and Madison Pettis (“Cory
in the House”) are among their human co-stars in
this special.
BY JOHN CROOK
Turkeys
Questions:
1) Kyle Chandler
2) Bette Midler
3) Cloris Leachman
4) Bronson Pinchot
Answers:
Joan
Cusack
1) What later “Bloodline” star played Joan Cusack’s
boyfriend in the short-lived 2001 ABC sitcom “What
About Joan”?
2) What former Oscar nominee and singer proved less
than “divine” when she starred in the 2000-01 CBS
sitcom “Bette”?
3) What Academy Award-winning actress (also a
multiple Emmy winner) played Grammy Winthrop,
a sarcastic Pilgrim grandmother in the ill-fated 1999
Plymouth Rock sitcom “Thanks”?
4) What actor became a breakout
star in the ABC sitcom hit “Perfect
Strangers” but probably wanted
to move back to Mypos when he
later bombed in the awful 1997
kiddie sitcom “Meego”?
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