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The 20/20 episode scheduled for Friday, November 29, 2024, will be pre-empted due to live coverage of the college football game between Georgia Tech (7-4) and Georgia (9-2). The game will air from Sanford Stadium, where Georgia’s Bulldogs are aiming for their 31st consecutive win in Athens and their seventh straight victory over in-state rival Georgia Tech.

As Georgia looks to extend their dominance over Tech, they’ll also be watching Saturday’s results to determine their fate in the SEC Championship Game. The match will feature a strong defensive front for Georgia, led by standout lineman Mykel Williams and linebackers Jalon Walker and Cj Allen, who will need to contend with Georgia Tech’s explosive offense, including running back Jamal Haynes and two versatile quarterbacks who can scramble and make plays on the run.

For college football fans, this rivalry game is not to be missed as Georgia looks to solidify its playoff positioning.

There are obscure treasures and there are holy grails. Of the latter, none is more mythic than the original 131-minute cut of Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons, believed by many to be lost somewhere in Brazil. All others arguably belong to Erich von Stroheim. Born in Vienna in 1885 into a Jewish household, von Stroheim is mostly remembered for playing evil Germans in films like Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion. Cinephiles, though, know him as the unluckiest auteur in the history of cinema.

Intended to run anywhere between six and 10 hours, many of von Stroheim’s films, from Greed to the Gloria Swanson vehicle Queen Kelly, were severely bastardized by studio heads upon their release. In this context, the iris shot that opens 1922’s Foolish Wives feels especially poignant. This is no ordinary “fade into” effect, but an entrancing reinforcement of the sinister, insular, and constrictive nature of the film’s milieu.