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Breaking: Ro-Ro-Rosie, Goodbye

Two days after her split-screen throwdown with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, TMZ.com and the AP are reporting that Rosie O’Donnell will not be returning to The View, ending her run on that show three weeks early. TMZ quotes an ABC statement saying, “We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract [...]

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Weekend TV: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

In HBO’s lamented Western Deadwood, we rarely saw or heard from Native Americans, except as severed heads and as a cynically-invoked threat that rationalized brutality and power grabs. HBO’s movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, debuting Sunday, begins just before Deadwood did–with the massacre at Little Big Horn–but has a distinctly different perspective. The [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Showcase Showdown!

Cliff Lipson/CBS Everybody’s praising Bob Barker as he gets ready to retire, but in my Culture Complex column this week, I take a minute to give the love to that most American of game shows itself, The Price Is Right: [U]ltimately, what wins Price are the skills that matter. Remembering facts (and I say this [...]