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"Movie: Madonna and the Breakfast Club" Guy Guido ("Lovin' Brooklyn," "Physical Attraction") wrote and directed this 2019 documentary that hearkens back to the time when Madonna was a struggling New York City singer with the Breakfast Club, her first band, in the days before she landed her first solo record deal. "Movie: Bingo Hell" Adriana Barraza ("Drag Me to Hell") stars in this fantasy comedy as Lupita, who with her fellow seniors fights to save their community from an evil presence that has taken up residence in their local bingo hall. L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Brake and Joshua Johnson also star for director Gigi Saul Guerrero ("The Source of Shadows"). (ORIGINAL) "The Baby-Sitters Club" Season 2 of this dramedy series finds business booming for the friends' babysitting business, thus forcing the need to bring in new sitters in Mallory and Jessi (Vivian Watson, Anais Lee). The new school year also brings new relationships, personal journeys and important lessons but the same friendship and camaraderie. Sophie Grace and Malia Baker are among cast returnees. (ORIGINAL) The STREAM Scene Where all the top choices can be found in one place! "Just Beyond" (Oct. 13) Boom! Studios's graphic novel of the same name served as the basis for creator Seth Grahame-Smith's ("The Hard Times of RJ Berger") horror comedy anthology series that tells stories of supernatural self- discovery through the worlds of witches, aliens, ghosts and alternate dimensions. Henry Thomas, Riki Lindhome, Gabriel Bateman and Cedric Joe are in the cast. (ORIGINAL) 10 • Terre Haute Tribune-Star • October 10 - 16, 2021 BEST ELIZABETH TAYLOR MOVIES "National Velvet" (1944) The young Taylor had a part for all time, and all ages, as the horse- riding Velvet Brown in this much-loved drama that teamed her with Mickey Rooney and Angela Lansbury. Turner Classic Movies shows it Tuesday, Oct. 12. "Little Women" (1949) Many of MGM's top stars at the time, including – besides Taylor, who played Amy March – June Allyson, Janet Leigh and Peter Lawford were gathered in this heartfelt version of the much-filmed Louisa May Alcott classic. "Father of the Bride" (1950) Taylor pretty much bade farewell to the "ingenue" stage of her career with this comedy classic casting her as the soon-to-wed daughter of the dad (Spencer Tracy) who stresses out over the wedding plans. "A Place in the Sun" (1951) Guided by Oscar-winning director George Stevens, Taylor has her allure set on "high" as a socialite who attracts a poor but earnest young man (Montgomery Clift) already involved with another woman (Shelley Winters) who is going to have his child. "Giant" (1956) In one of her best roles, Taylor played a privileged Texan drawn to both her rancher husband (Rock Hudson) and an indomitable rebel (James Dean, in his final role) in the film version of Edna Ferber's sprawling novel that earned director George Stevens his second Oscar. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) "Maggie the cat is alive!" Indeed she was with Taylor portraying her, caught between her husband (Paul Newman) and his estranged, dying father (Burl Ives) in the steamy Tennessee Williams play. "BUtterfield 8" (1960) Taylor earned her first Academy Award – opposite, among others, then- husband Eddie Fisher – for novelist John O'Hara's potboiler about a model and her questionable personal liaisons. "The V.I.P.s" (1963) Even if it's admittedly soapy in nature, this multi-plot saga of passengers fogged in at a London airport was a gossip-lover's dream for the first substantial view it gave of Taylor and Richard Burton at the peak of their romance. "Cleopatra" (1963) Say what you will – and much has been, over almost 60 years – but this costly, almost studio-busting monument to Hollywood excess may well be the ultimate star vehicle for any actress, with Taylor glamorously regal as (of course) the queen of Egypt. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) Forget about glamour in this case ... Taylor was rewarded with her second Oscar for playing it raw and shrewish opposite an equally dowdy Burton in debuting film director Mike Nichols' searing version of Edward Albee's play about arguably the Worst. Dinner. Party. Ever. TCM also has this on Tuesday, Oct. 12. BY JAY BOBBIN "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Father of the Bride" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"