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A tale set in the 19th cen-
tury joins the streaming
revolution Friday as
AppleTV+, the tech giant’s
streaming service, makes its
debut. “Dickinson” and eight
other Apple original series
mark the beginning of its en-
try into territory ruled by
Netflix — followed in the next
seven months by Disney+,
NBCUniversal’s Peacock and
Warner Media’s HBO Max.
There’s no question that
the fragmented world of tele-
vision is about to be shat-
tered into thousands more
pieces with this looming del-
uge of new content, but
there’s debate over whether
the anything-goes days of
streaming innovation (see:

TELEVISION REVIEW

Raucous love letter to a poet

HAILEESteinfeld plays the young and outspoken Emily and Wiz Khalifa is her

secret friend, Death, in the AppleTV+ dark comedy “Dickinson.” The new stream-

ing service’s lineup also includes the workplace dramedy “The Morning Show.” E4.

Apple TV+

Apple TV+’s vibrant

‘Dickinson’ adds a

modern beat to a

revered literary figure.

LORRAINE ALI
TELEVISION CRITIC

[See‘Dickinson,’E4]

Neil Young has come up

with a canny way to disarm

those who have periodically

criticized the veteran Cana-

dian singer and songwriter’s

most pointedly political

songs or public statements

about life in the USA on the

grounds that “he’s not even

an American.”

As of next month, that ar-

gument will no longer hold

water.

“I’ve passed all the tests;

I’ve got my appointment,

and if everything goes as

planned, I’ll be taking the

oath of citizenship” shortly

after turning 74 on Nov. 12.

The salient point being, “I’ll

be able to vote,” said Young,

who has lived roughly two-

thirds of his life in the U.S.

since arriving in Los Angeles

in the mid-’60s and first

making his mark on the rock

’n’ roll landscape with Buf-

falo Springfield.

“I’m still a Canadian;

there’s nothing that can take

that away from me,” he said.

Young was at a studio in

Santa Monica where he and

his wife, activist-actress

Daryl Hannah, assembled

their new film, “Mountain-

top,” documenting the re-

cording of Young’s latest al-

bum, “Colorado.”

“But I live down here; I

pay taxes down here; my

beautiful family is all down

here — they’re all Ameri-

cans, so I want to register my

opinion” about this country.

He means doing so at the

ballot box; he’s often regis-

tered his opinion musically,

in songs such as “Ohio,”

about the killing by National

Guardsmen of four students

at Kent State University

during campus Vietnam

Neil Young is on

a new Horse ride

He’s becoming a U.S.

citizen and touting a

new documentary and

album with the band.

By Randy Lewis

[SeeYoung, E5]

As that time-worn chestnut from the

SkyNet future goes, there’s no fate but what we make.

Which is why, more than a quarter-century after blasting

her way to action-icon status in 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judg-

ment Day,” Linda Hamilton took a month and a half to decide

if she should bring Sarah Connor back to the big screen for

“Terminator: Dark Fate,” the sixth entry in the franchise.

Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron, director of

the first two “Terminator” films, a producer on “Dark Fate”

— and Hamilton’s former husband — had called three times.

After the third call, she phoned him back.

“He said, ‘Limbo!’ We call each other Limbo and Jimbo,”

explained Hamilton, who purposefully lives far from Holly-

wood in New Orleans. “ ‘It’s about work.’ ”

He sent an email detailing pros and cons of why she should

and shouldn’t reprise her signature character. Not that it

mattered, Cameron said. “Anybody who knows Linda knows

you don’t convince her of anything,” he said from New Zea-

land, where he’s filming his “Avatar” sequels. “It has to be her

idea, or it has to be her decision.”

What was she mulling over in that time? “Did I want to

switch out my lovely normal life in New Orleans for 15 more

minutes of fame? Did I have anything to say as Sarah Connor

that I hadn’t said already ... and

“I JUSTdidn’t want to let Sarah Connor down,” says Linda Hamilton, center, with costars Natalia Reyes, left, and Mackenzie Davis.

Myung J. ChunLos Angeles Times

Tough trio shows

the future is female

Linda Hamilton leads the charge in a ‘Terminator’ for the ages

BYJENYAMATO>>>

[See‘Terminator,’E2]

Netflix has made expen-

sive quasi-blockbusters like

“Bright,” acclaimed Oscar

fare such as “Roma” and a

multitude of romantic come-

dies and Christmas movies.

But the streaming giant has

never released anything

quite like “The Irishman,” a

3½-hour, $159-million crime

epic from one of the lions of

cinema, Martin Scorsese.

Opening in select thea-

ters in Los Angeles and New

York on Friday, the sprawl-

ing drama marks the high-

est-profile film debut yet for

the streaming giant, which

has made movies a key part

of its streaming business af-

ter years of disrupting the

television industry.

For Netflix film chief

Scott Stuber, who joined the

firm more than two years

ago, the Scorsese picture is

part of a mission to prove

that the streamer — widely

seen as an outsider and, by

some, an enemy of tradi-

tional Hollywood — can

make movies that stand up

among studio giants.

“The Irishman,” which

tells the story of hit man

Frank Sheeran, comes with

serious gangster-flick pedi-

gree. Robert De Niro re-

unites with the “Taxi Driver”

auteur to play Sheeran,

while Al Pacino stars as no-

torious union boss Jimmy

Hoffa and Joe Pesci plays

Mafioso Russell Bufalino.

“For us the most satis-

fying thing is an artist like

[Scorsese], and all these in-

credible actors, making this

film that we’re all proud of,

and will hopefully be a big

event to audiences all over

the world,” Stuber said in an

Netflix

bets big

on film

to hold

viewers

Scorsese’s big-budget

‘The Irishman’ is part

of a plan to make the

lineup irresistible.

By Ryan Faughnder

and Wendy Lee

[SeeNetflix, E3]

‘Buried Child’ a

thorny treasure

Sam Shepard’s

Pulitzer-winning

drama speaks to today

in A Noise Within’s

revival. E3

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