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Letters from a Los Angeles Jail: The Wisdom of Paris Hilton

They say when you reach a crossroad or turning point in life it doesn’t really matter how we got there, but what we do next after we get there. We usually arrive there by adversity. And it is then, only then, that we find out who we truly are and what we are truly made [...]

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Size Matters

Shaq’s Big Challenge. ABC photo: ANGELO CAVALLI I just got a press release from an activist group I haven’t heard of, about a TV-discrimination issue that I’ve never heard voiced. Nation of Size, a group representing “persons of size,” has issued its first report card evaluating the representation of large people in prime time TV. [...]

Biennale Blues

Today’s recommended reading — a shrewd and funny takedown of the whole dreary notion of artworld biennials by New York magazine critic Jerry Saltz. Having spent a week blogging from Venice, I know where he’s coming from, especially when he talks about the frenzy of press preview days, with long lines to enter the most [...]

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What's In a Name? About $5 Billion

Often lost in the excitement over Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to buy Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal is the possibility that the deal may not mainly be about a newspaper at all but about TV. CNN Money takes a look at the potential for the deal to provide instant brand recognition for Murdoch’s forthcoming [...]

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TV Poll: What's Your Favorite Theme Song?

I’ve been watching a lot of old DVDs and TV shows lately, and one thing that always does my heart good is hearing old theme songs. Not because they’re better or worse necessarily than today’s, but because they’re so long. This is the thing about TV that most tells you how the world has changed [...]