Pop
Rod Lott
I’m not sure I’d call Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album the “masterpiece” as it packaging proclaims, since a couple of its tracks have never clicked with me, but it’s as damn close as pop music gets.

Folk
Rob Collins
A year before The Beatles exploded on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Bob Dylan planned to perform “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” in the spring of 1963 for a national TV audience.

Thriller
Rod Lott
So simple is the story of Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, "The Phantom of the Opera," that it continues to be remade on stage and screen. More interesting, however, are not its adaptations, but those that tweak the setting to more contemporary, even oddball venues.

Television series
Rod Lott
Richard Roundtree is there, and so is Isaac Hayes' iconic, Oscar-winning theme, but "Shaft: The TV Movie Collection" isn't quite the "Shaft" of the 1970's feature-film trilogy. The operative word there: "TV," which means little of the R-rated shenanigans that made the character so popular.

Television series
Rod Lott
In inversion relation to his relationship with film, Quentin Tarantino's track record in television has been less than stellar.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
You know him as Rajesh Koothrappali on the CBS smash hit The Big Bang Theory, but Kunal Nayyar is not the awkward outcast he plays on TV. See for yourself when the actor shares his story of rising from a New Delhi youth to CBS sitcom star, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 100 Campus Drive in Weatherford. Tickets are $10-$20. Call 580-774-3019 or visit swosu.edu.

Thursday

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CFN
Gazette staff
It’s not cool to make fun of someone’s body. It’s less cool to do it in print ... especially if you want to keep your job.