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SundayArts WITH: MOVIES I BOOKS I STYLE I FOOD BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE JANUARY 26, 2014 BOSTONGLOBE.COMARTS EL REY NETWORK TELEVISION New cable networks hope to blaze a trail By Sarah Rodman GLOBE STAFF PASADENA, Calif. Just as many viewers are cutting the cable cord, a pair of new minority-owned networks are hoping to restore the connection. Those two networks, REVOLT and El Rey Network, met with reporters here recently as part of the Television Critics Association winter press tour. Both outlets emerged out of a deal that the FCC made during the Comcast merger with NBC Universal to distribute minority-owned networks. REVOLT, launched in October 2013 and currently airing in roughly 20 million homes, is a music channel founded by Sean "Diddy" Combs targeting millennials with original programming, including a mix of music videos from several genres (from hip-hop to EDM to country to alternative rock) and live news and entertainment shows.

The El Rey Network, launched in December 2013 and currently airing in nearly 40 million homes thanks, in part, to a partnership with Univision was created by director Robert Rodriguez City," the "Spy Kids" franchise). Rodriguez says the El Rey Network will aim NETWORKS, Page N8 Above: Robert Rodriguez is founder of the El Rey Network. THEATER CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Mind games On Boston stages, characters mess with each other's heads and ours Surviving Sundance 20 films in 5 days: Spies and a boy make a big impression BY DON AUCOIN GLOBE STAFF Midway through Act 2 of Terry Johnson's "Insignificance," a character identified as the Ballplayer, in-spired by Joe DiMaggio, confronts the Senator (Joseph McCarthy) after discovering him in a New York hotel room with the Ballplayer's wife, the Actress (Marilyn Monroe). "You a man of honor?" demands the Ballplayer in the Nora Theatre Company production, to which the Senator replies: "I'm a solip-sist." Ballplayer: "OK. What's a solipsist, remind me." Senator: "I believe that only I exist.

All the rest of you exist only in my imagination." Ballplayer: "That's stupid. I exist." Sena tor: "Sure you do, but only in my head." A few seconds later, the Ballplayer thinks he spots an opening. "If I don't exist, how come I'm arguing?" he demands. Responds the Senator: "I like to argue." By the end of their exchange, the Ballplayer's head is spinning. That may be a familiar sensation at the moment for Boston-area theatergoers, because intricate mind games are playing out all over local stages.

Psychological manipulation designed to knock someone off balance and gain a tactical advantage is central not just to "Insignificance" but also to Huntington Theatre Company's "Venus in Fur," New Repertory Theatre's "Imagining Madoff," SpeakEasy Stage Company's "The MIND GAMES, Page N6 By Ty Burr GLOBE STAFF PARK CITY, Utah One thing to remember about giving oneself up to a film festival's many offerings is that the experience creates concordances, patterns, inner rhymes. My second day at this year's Sundance the 30th annual edition, ending Jan. 26 I saw two movies about spies, one fictional, one non. As you might guess, it was the documentary, "The Green Prince," that seemed too far-fetched to believe. Less expectedly it was the more hopeful of the two, but the other film, "A Most Wanted Man," is based on a John le Carre novel, so disenchantment is in its blood.

"The Green Prince" is the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of a Hamas leader and a mole for Israel's Shin Bet security agency. Right there are enough ironies and anxieties to fuel a Hollywood thriller or an ambitious cable series, but director Nadav Schirman tells an additional tale, that of the SUNDANCE, Page N10 Above: Ellar Coltrane in Richard Linklater's "Boyhood." RYAN HUDDLE. GLOBE STAFF n- THE ENTHUSIAST I 11 Sill RISE AND SHINE CLASSICAL MUSIC THE MAESTRO Recalling the vision of conductor Claudio Abbado Tatte Bakery opens another Uk BOOKS BANNED IN BOSTON Matthew Gilbert on the WilliamS. Burroughs bio N16 location in Kendall Square N15.