Salon.com > bad25 http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 09:17:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What to watch when you’re not eating turkey http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/what_to_watch_when_you%e2%80%99re_not_eating_turkey/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/what_to_watch_when_you%e2%80%99re_not_eating_turkey/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13104676 To help you survive the long Thanksgiving weekend in close quarters with your relatives, here’s a guide to what’s worthwhile on TV this holiday.

“Michael Jackson: Bad25” (Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EST, ABC)

On the 25thanniversary of the release of Michael Jackson’s epic “Bad,” Spike Lee has assembled a documentary about the making of that album. It features interviews with everyone from Martin Scorsese (who directed the “Bad” video) to Sheryl Crow (who sang a duet with Jackson on the record) to the less directly involved Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber and Kanye West. There’s also behind-the-scenes footage of the King of Pop hard at work (how did he do that leaning dance thing?). Watching a man in his prime hard at work should help you digest your enormous dinner, right?

"Liz and Dick" (Sunday, 9 p.m. EST, Lifetime)

Lindsay Lohan plays Elizabeth Taylor in this made-for-TV movie about the scandalous, explosive romance between Taylor and Richard Burton. If just reading “Lindsay Lohan plays Elizabeth Taylor” makes you ill, skip it, but if you can stomach it, you’re in for a camp classic that’s totally terrible in a totally fun way.

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