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PLAY BY PLAY: A History of Sports Television; HBO...
...Leguizamo, 27. Kaleidoscopic, hilarious and politically very incorrect, Mambo Mouth had a successful 35-week run off- Broadway earlier this year and won a 1991 Obie and Outer Critics Circle Award. Now a one-hour TV special based on the show will get the first of six airings on HBO this Saturday...
SESSIONS (HBO, debuting Oct. 6, 10:10 p.m. EDT). A 42-year-old husband and father (Michael McKean) discusses his sexual fantasies and mid-life neuroses with a sympathetic shrink (Elliott Gould). Billy Crystal created and co-wrote this offbeat comedy series, which is frank and frequently clever, though a bit mushy at the center...
DREAM ON (HBO, Sunday nights). Book editor and divorced dad Martin Tupper (Brian Benben) is trying to make sense of the '90s. So why do scenes from - '50s TV shows keep popping into his head? In its second season, this decidedly adult sitcom, which makes deft use of old black-and-white clips, is better than ever...
...didn't invite his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel to join him. Simon, now the Midas of polycultural pop, seemed determined to banish the ghost of the folk-rock sound that made him famous. Backed by a 17-piece band, he kicked off the show (broadcast live on HBO) with the rousing samba tattoo of The Obvious Child, from his album The Rhythm of the Saints, and kept up the momentum with 2 1/2 hours of undulating, Afro-Caribbean-flavored music. The older songs that were included were transformed, including a reggae-tinged Bridge over Troubled Water and a percolating version...