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‘SHOW ME A HERO’ On HBO
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BO’s new six-part HBO Original miniseries, Show Me A Hero, premieres with two parts back-to-back same time as the US on Aug. 17, 8 a.m. with a same day 8 p.m. encore. Two new parts air on subsequent Monday nights at the same time. The miniseries will also be available on HBO GO on the same day. Based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin, it explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, NY. David Simon and William F. Zorzi, Jr. wrote the screenplay based on Belkin’s book. Paul Haggis directed all six parts of the miniseries. The cast includes Oscar Isaac as Mayor Nick Wasicsko; Catherine Keener as longtime East Yonkers resident Mary Dorman;
Alfred Molina as Councilman Henry J. Spallone; Winona Ryder as Councilwoman Vinni Restiano; LaTanya Richardson-Jackson as housing project resident Norma O’Neal; Bob Balaban as U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand; Jim Belushi as incumbent Yonkers Mayor Angelo Martinelli, who lost his bid for a seventh term to Nick Wasicsko; and Jon Bernthal as NAACP attorney Michael Sussman. Lisa Belkin was a New York Times reporter in the late 1980s, when Yonkers, a city of 200,000 located just north of The Bronx and nearly 80 percent white, was suddenly confronted by a politically unpopular reality. A lawsuit undertaken by the U.S. Justice Department and the NAACP had proven definitively that Yonkers officials had used federal housing funds to purposely segregate the city for decades, and while elected officials vowed to appeal that
ruling, even the city’s own lawyers saw little chance it could be overturned on the merits. The remedy for the civil rights violations is simple, but politically fraught: Yonkers must build 200 units of low-income housing somewhere on the white side of the Saw Mill River Parkway in East Yonkers, followed by another 800 units of affordable housing. A committed housing expert, Oscar Newman (Peter Riegert) is determined to use a new philosophy of public housing to avoid the high-rise projects and slum conditions of previous generations, and Yonkers housing commissioner Peter Smith (Terry Kinney) and housing consultant Robert Mayhawk (Clarke Peters) stand ready to help him. But before they can do so, Yonkers officials must name the sites on which the new townhouses can be built.
Scenes from HBO's new miniseries Show Me a Hero
August is for the LittLe ones
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A well-accessorized feline in America's Next Cat Star
A baby orangutan is being bottle fed in Meet The Orangutans
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very animal has something unique to offer no matter how big or small it is. This August, it is the month of the little ones as Animal Planet takes on the cutest cats and the youngest orangutans with two of its newest series. It is never an easy journey towards becoming the best. America’s Next Cat Star follows host John Fulton as he presents some of the cutest and most charismatic kitties in the country to our panel of judges: pet expert Andrea Arden, BuzzFeed Editorial Director Jack Shepherd, and comedian and cat lover Julie Klausner. The team sifts through thousands of feline videos and photos in search of the next IT kitty. What exactly does it take to be-
come the next feline star? Find out which of these lucky cats gets named America’s Next Cat Star as the show premieres Aug, 12, 9 p.m. and every Wednesdays thereafter. Also, Meet The Orangutans is a window into the extraordinary daily drama at the world’s first-ever Orangutan Sanctuary where over 30 orphaned ginger terrors rule the roost. Led by Orangutan Fairy Godmother Sue Sheward, a dedicated team of vets, nurses, rangers and volunteers, they all have just one aim: to return their endangered young charges to the wild. Take a tour of Northern Borneo’s special kind of rescue center in the new series Meet The Orangutans airing 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 24.