<span>Q: I saw the movie "Breach," with Chris Cooper, in the theater a few years back, but was recently told it was based on a true story. Is that true?</span>
Not only is "Breach" (2007) based on a true story, it's based on "one of the worst cases of espionage the FBI has ever encountered." That's how CNN described the case at the time.
In the film, Chris Cooper ("American Beauty," 1999) plays Robert Hanssen, a veteran FBI agent working in counterintelligence to catch Soviet spies. However, it was revealed in February 2001 that for most of that time, Hanssen was, in fact, spying for them.
Big Brother, on CBS
The heat is on for the remaining Houseguests as they compete for the $500,000 grand prize in this new episode. Julie Chen hosts this special weekly elimination episode in which one of the Houseguests is sent packing by their housemates.
Tears and thrills: Networks roll out a new slate of prime-time dramas
Noah Mills, Natacha Karam, Demetrius Grosse, Hadi Tabbal and Mike Vogel as seen in "The Brave"
Whenever the fall TV season rolls around, viewers are treated to a whole new slate of dramatic programming. Whether medical dramas or police procedurals are your bag, there's bound to be something that grabs you on the fall schedule.
Final frontier: Comedy meets sci-fi when 'The Orville' premieres on Fox
The cast of "The Orville"
When the USS Enterprise embarked on its "five-year" mission in "Star Trek" on NBC in 1966, a series set in space was a novelty. Nowadays, prime time is rife with thrilling intergalactic adventures, almost all of them bleak. Yet, there's a new series on the event horizon that aims to inject a little humor into the sci-fi genre.
Q: I'm looking for the name of a movie. It's about teens graduating high school, but their school has a curse where one senior dies every year. I caught part of it on TV recently but I didn't get the name, and I'd like to see the rest.
Fortunately that's a fairly unique premise, so I can say that it's almost certainly the 2015 horror-mystery "The Curse of Downers Grove."
It's unique, but it's also a very Bret Easton Ellis-ish premise, which is why it's surprising he didn't write the source material. He was involved, though.
Ellis, a novelist and more recently filmmaker, has cornered the market on stories about horrible things happening to (and/or perpetrated by) affluent young people.
Wahlburgers, on A&E
In this new episode, loyal Wahlburgers customers ask Paul if they can have their wedding at the Boston location. In Philadelphia, while on tour with New Kids on the Block, Donnie and his son Elijah drive the Wahlburgers food truck to the concert venue.
The Simpsons, on Fox
Unhappy with Yale, Mr. Burns decides to open his own for-profit university where Homer gets a job as a professor in this rebroadcast. Actor Jason Alexander, "Jeopardy" winner Ken Jennings and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson guest star.
Q: Did any of the children from "The Sound of Music" do anything else I'd recognize?
They certainly did. Whether you'd recognize them in those things is a different question.
Of the seven actors who played the von Trapp children in the 1965 classic "The Sound of Music," three didn't go on to do anything else. Charmian Carr (who played Liesl von Trapp), Duane Chase (Kurt) and Debbie Turner (Marta) more or less gave up on acting shortly after "The Sound of Music" -- going out on top, so to speak (that's a mountain pun, by the way).
Preacher, on AMC
When Jesse (Dominic Cooper) and his friends Tulip (Ruth Negga) and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) hit a snag, they prepare to leave New Orleans in this new episode. However, when an old enemy resurfaces, they're forced to change their plans.
Supermarket superstars: Top culinary talent competes in Flavortown Market
Guy Fieri instructs contestants in "Guy's Grocery Games"
Even pro chefs need to shop for groceries. They're no strangers to the produce section or the express lane of the local supermarket, but do they have what it takes to make it through Flavortown Market?