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TV & MOVIES

Remembering the Greats: The TV will be filled in the coming days with tributes to two movie greats who died this week, Robert Mitchum and James Stewart. AMC will show a 24-hour slate of Mitchum’s films, including “The Big Steal,” “One Minute to Zero” and “The Racket,” starting today at 3 a.m. TCM’s Mitchum tribute--featuring seven movies and his last television interview, for TCM’s “Private Screenings” series, will be shown Saturday, also starting at 3 a.m. AMC’s Stewart programming, scheduled prior to his death, starts at 3 a.m. on Friday with “You Gotta Stay Happy” and includes 11 other movies such as “Broken Arrow,” “Winchester ‘73,” “The Spirit of St. Louis” and “Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation.” TCM, meanwhile, will show three Stewart movies--”Harvey,” “The Philadelphia Story” and “You Can’t Take It With You”--on Sunday, starting at 5 p.m. TCM is also planning a “Jimmy Stewart Weekend,” with about 25 movies, including “The Greatest Show on Earth,” for July 12-13. A&E;, meanwhile, will carry installments of its “Biography” series on both actors on Saturday, with Stewart’s at 5 and 9 p.m. and Mitchum’s at 6 and 10 p.m. And KCET-TV Channel 28 has an already-scheduled Mitchum movie, “Farewell My Lovely,” at 9 p.m. Saturday.

Cosby Refuses Blood Test: Actor Bill Cosby has refused defense attorneys’ request that he take a blood test to determine if he is the father of 22-year-old Autumn Jackson, who is accused of trying to extort $40 million from him. Cosby’s lawyer and prosecutors have said the blood test is irrelevant to Jackson’s trial. Cosby has said he doesn’t believe he is her father.

‘King’ of the Internet: The American Film Institute’s movie theater-on-the-Internet, OnLine Cinema (https://www.afionline.org/cinema), has begun showing the 1949 serial “King of the Rocket Men,” which originally ran in theaters as shorts prior to the main event. The first installment will be seen through Sunday; additional installments will change each Monday.

POP/ROCK

The Great Publicity: The publicity generated by Disney-owned Hollywood Records when it recalled the Insane Clown Posse’s “The Great Milenko” because of “inappropriate lyrics” has brought the unknown Detroit rap group’s album to No. 63 on the pop chart. With most stores keeping their original shipments, about 18,000 copies were sold during the seven-day period that ended Sunday, according to SoundScan’s weekly list of the nation’s Top 200 sellers. “It definitely feels good,” said Alex Abbiss, the group’s manager, “but it’s not going to have a chance to do anything next week because there ain’t no records left.” About 100,000 copies were originally shipped.