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January 19, 2021 4:00 AM Matt Roush, TV Insider
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A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (8/7c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): You never know what skeletons lurk in someone’s genealogical closet. In the seventh-season premiere of Harvard professor Gates’ captivating series that explores celebrity guests’ ancestries, actress Glenn Close and cult director John Waters are dismayed to learn of slaveholders in their families’ privileged pasts. “It makes me feel a sense of shame,” says Close, who nevertheless feels “stronger” when told of Quaker and Puritan forebears who helped found the nation in its Colonial days. (She’s also delighted to learn one of her ancestral lines connects with Princess Diana.) Waters loves hearing Gates declare, “Your family tree drips with drama,” and blurts, “It sounds like a movie scene I’d write” when treated to a newspaper cli
Will Ferrell is opening up about the one joke in
Eurovision that nobody picked up on.
During his interview with
Variety, the 53-year-old actor dished about how in the Netflix movie, everybody believes that elves exist, which was actually designed to be a nod to
Elf.
“You know what’s funny? Nobody got the subtext to that,”
Will shared. “We were trying to put in this bit about how Lars has issues with elves and elves are stupid and thought, ‘That’s going to get such a funny laugh because of Buddy the Elf’.”
However, it “just went over everyone’s head.”
of rhinebeck, new york. hey, guys, keep walking. mr. president, how does it feel to have your little girl growing up? it s good. the occasion? chelsea clinton s marriage. it s a private ceremony, but media interest is overwhelming. of course it s a wedding that s being billed as fit for american royalty and it doesn t appear to disappoint. long time clinton friends ted danson and mary steenbergen are among the few famous guests invited to attend. watching the support that bill gave his daughter and the way he honored her and the admiration that he has for her and the respect he has for her and for this lovely man that she married was very moving. chelsea asked one thing from her father, that he lose 15 pounds for his health before she gets married. she told me the other day, dad, the only thing you got to
the occasion? chelsea clinton s marriage. it s a private ceremony, but media interest is overwhelming. of course it s a wedding that s being billed as fit for american royalty and it doesn t appear to disappoint. long time clinton friends ted danson and mary steenbergen are among the few famous guests invited to attend. watching the support that bill gave his daughter and the way he honored her and the admiration that he has for her and the respect he has for her and for this lovely man that she married was very moving. chelsea asked one thing from her father, that he lose 15 pounds for his health before she gets married. she told me the other day, dad, the only thing you got to do is walk me down the aisle and you need to look good. five months earlier bill clinton experienced chest pains and underwent a heart procedure. it is not his first time with heart issues. in 2004 he had a quadruple