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Durham Mayor Bill Bell reviews "Brick City"

Tomorrow night (Sunday at 8), the Sundance Channel presents the second season of "Brick City," six one-hour episodes chronicling the challenges facing famed mayor, Cory Booker, his police director Garry McCarthy, and the citizens of Newark, New Jersey.

We loved the first part, but this time Happiness decided to get an expert opinion of the series. So we turned to Durham Mayor Bill Bell. Bell, we figured, could gage the authenticity of the show and testify to the difficulty of handling budget cuts, angry citizens and crime.

His overall opinion after screening two episodes?

Watch live online coverage from Sundance Film Festival

Beginning Saturday (Jan. 22) at 2pm EST, you can watch live reports from the annual Sundance Film Festival from Park City, Utah, right here. Look for live performances and interviews. You can also go directly to livestream.com.

Watch live streaming video from aplivesundance at livestream.com

"Nick Nolte: No Exit": A profile of an unconventional man

Nick Nolte is one of those actors who you might describe as having squandered his talent. He could have been so much bigger, you might say, if he hadn't been so messed up. And then your mind flashes on the infamous wild-haired photo after he was arrested for DUI.

But if you watch "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Sundance, 8 tonight), you find that Nolte is quite at peace with his choices on and off screen. In this witty, wry documentary you learn that, as a friend of mine would say, he's just a different kind of cat.

The film features a clean-cut, dapper reporter played by Nolte interviewing, via computer screen, the more disheveled actor Nick Nolte. In the process, and intercut with film images and comments from folks including Ben Stiller, Rosanna Arquette, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe and director Paul Mazursky, we learn Nolte's life story and his unusual perspectives.

Want to Stir Things Up at the Christmas Table?


Just watch "Jesus In India," on the Sundance Channel tonight at 9 and then discuss it with the family.

The documentary explores the controversial theory that Jesus Christ's " lost years" -- from about the ages of 12 and 30 -- may have been spent in India.

At the center of the film is author Edward T. Martin, a man who grew up attending a Fundamentalist Christian church in small town Texas. At bible school one day, he asks his teacher about what happened to Jesus during those years, since only a single passage in Luke (2:52) makes reference to those hidden years.

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