Movies: I am a big fan of Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” but not of his “Murder on the Orient Express.” So I don’t have high hopes for his new version of another Agatha Christie classic, “Death on the Nile”…TV/Streaming: I gave “Reacher,” on Amazon Prime, a look. But it takes more than female and male semi-nudity to capture my attention. Pass…Music: Women won most of this week’s BRIT awards, led by — shock! — Adele…Books: Sean McMeekin’s “The Russian Revolution” is opening my eyes to a phenomenon I thought I knew just about everything about…Sports: Is there an (American) football game this weekend? Is there some sort of winter-sports festival going on in China?
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