Green Earth Day

Green Earth DayFuse has new documentaries on Jay-Z and Beyonc#233;. "Jay-Z: Free Force" debuts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17, with a half-hour look at the bluesy rapper formerly known as Shawn Carter. "Beyonc#233;: Shine" is an hourlong look at the Miss Knowles now known as Sasha Fierce at 6 p.m. Monday, April 19. But best of all might be Fuse's daylong salute to Green Day to mark Earth Day starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 22.Cassidy back at 'BBMPat Cassidy is going back to where most Chicago radio newshounds say he belongs. The 40-year veteran will return to all-news WBBM 780-AM on Monday, April 19, and reunite with morning-drive co-host Felicia Middlebrooks. Cassidy previously jumped to all-talk WLS 890-AM, but wound up in what he clearly found an uncomfortable pairing with Mancow Muller. "I'm happy to be back on the best radio news team in America," Cassidy said.TCM fest comes homeTurner Classic Movies tried to create a stir in Hollywood recently with an actual film festival in theaters, as well as a road trip that brought the fest to Chicago's Music Box Theater. Now TCM is bringing it all back home with a similar thematic festival next weekend, starting with "The Red Shoes" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22. Better, however, are the ensuing "Once Upon a Time in the West," Sergio Leone's masterpiece, at 9:30 p.m., and "The River," Jean Renoir's Indian swan song with Satyajit Ray on the crew, at 12:30 a.m.Here's Johnny!As it is, "The Shining" is Stanley Kubrick's tedious exercise in horror, a movie that scares you by boring you to death. When it runs with ads on AMC, however, it's even more endless. So watch Jack Nicholson mug for three and a half hours starting at 7 p.m. today, and then watch it again when it runs immediately after at 10:30.False800600Jack Nicholson hams it up in "The Shining." False