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Sympathy for the Devils TV by DEAN ROBBINS With Crossfire Hurricane (Thursday, 9 p.m., HBO), the Rolling Stones have produced a worthy 50th-anniversary documentary. It chronicles their journey from being "the band everybody hated to the band everybody loves," in Mick Jagger's words. We learn that the group consciously set out to become the bad-guy counterparts to the Beatles in the mid 1960s. The Rolling Stones evolve from villains to heroes in Crossfi re Hurricane naire Keith Richards. "What's left? The black hat." For more than a dozen years, the Stones earned that black hat by causing riots, getting busted and taunting the straight world with their hedonistic behavior. The incredible footage puts you on stage and backstage in the center of the storm — the "crossfire hurricane" of the title. The docu- mentary is nothing like the one the surviving Beatles made about their own experience, as the Stones don't provide the same level of insight into themselves or their times. What they do provide is a visceral thrill — the thrill you can get only from diabolical musicians creating art outside the nor- mal social boundaries. "The Beatles got the white hats," says guitarist extraordi- The thing that sets the Stones apart from other blues- based poètes maudits — from Robert Johnson to Jim Morrison — is their knack for surviving into old age. "Usually the guy in the black hat gets killed in the end," says Richards. "Not this time, brother." Jungle Gold Friday, 10 pm (Discovery) nists leave family and friends for a dangerous environment where the chances of striking it rich seem shaky at best. Though Scott and George are oblivious, portents of doom abound: impassable roads, natives with machetes, armed poachers on the patch of land they bought from a local tribe. Plus, anyone with even a glancing knowledge of pop culture would realize that an obsessive search for gold can only lead to disaster. Did none of Scott and George's friends think to screen Treasure of the Sierra Madre for them? Witness Monday, 9 pm (HBO) This extraordinary documentary series follows war pho- tographers into global conflict zones. It's scary enough just sitting at home and watching the footage — I can't imag- ine what it's like to be the photographer braving danger in Africa or Brazil, with the simple goal of showing the world the truth. more hours. Scott and George take a different approach: They head to the Ghanaian jungle to dig for gold. In this reality series, the driven young protago- When most of us go into debt, we cut back on expenses, maybe work a few "Some people say I am crazy to go there pregnant," she says in her imperfect English. "But all over the world there are millions of women when they're preg- nant doing really hard work. And if they can do it, why I cannot do it?" It's not easy to take in the grisly images here, but you feel guilty looking away. As de Viguerie might say: If she can put herself in danger to tell an important story, why we cannot watch it? In this week's installment, we get close to French pho- tographer Veronique de Viguerie as she tramps through the bush in South Sudan, chronicling a local militia's brave fight against the brutal Lord's Resistance Army. De Viguerie is fearless and resourceful, not to mention preg- nant. 20 UCW NOVEMBER 14-20, 2012 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM