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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight…

…possibly, nothing. It’s all in the hands of Time Warner Cable, which somewhere in a four-hour window today is supposed to install two Cablecards in my new HD TiVo. (Don’t know what Cablecards are? Good for you! I’d explain, but that would be too dorky even for Lev’s blog.) I know, I know. When the [...]

I Hear That Train A’Comin’

A number of papers have been reporting that Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has agreed to give a home to an unrealized Jeff Koons project — a replica of a 1940s locomotive that would hang nose down from a 161-foot tall crane. As Koons envisions it, every so often [...]

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We Can Work It Out

Three items from the mediabiztertainment news: (1) Apple Corps and Apple Inc. have resolved their long-running name dispute; (2) Jeff Zucker is poised to be named head of NBC Universal today; and (3) Viacom and YouTube are still at a standoff over YouTube’s rights (and Viacom’s compensation) concerning copyrighted video. Each in its way about [...]

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Still Cheaper Than 30 Seconds on The Super Bowl

With a settlement of $2 million, our long national nightmare is over. (And Hasbro will have to start paying for Lite Brite advertising again.) Now to attack the real urban threat: sneakers hanging from power lines.