Your Weekend: A Selective Guide
Movies: “Top Five” is the Chris Rock comedy. “Inherent Vice” is, at long last, a movie adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Television: School of American Ballet hits PBS on Friday…Sunday brings the series finale of “The Newsroom“…A new, 10-part series, “Marco Polo,” streams on Netflix. Music: Sam Smith deservedly snagged multiple Grammy noms this week: find out why here. Books: Just about the only work that’s making all the year-end best-of lists is Phil Klay’s “Redeployment.” Sports: Yes, it’s true: the NFL’s four best teams are the Packers, Patriots, Seahawks, and Broncos. Finally: How I wish a national distributor still made old-fashioned Peppermint Chip ice cream.
