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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

Wayne Brady launches the counterstrike against Joey Fatone in the battle of the misremembered-lyrics contests with Don’t Forget the Lyrics on Fox. But before that I’m probably going to get a start on the screeners of HBO’s new September therapy drama Tell Me You Love Me, which you may know better as the show where [...]

The Italian Stallion

Victorious Youth, Greek, 300-100 B.C. — Photo: Getty Museum Things are getting serious here. Francesco Rutelli, the Italian culture minister who has been on the warpath over looted antiquities, abruptly issued an ultimatum yesterday to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Return everything we demand by the end of the month or Italy will impose “an [...]

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Scalpel Fight! Moore and Gupta Throw Down on CNN

He’s no Paris Hilton, but Michael Moore provided one of the more dramatic exchanges on Larry King Live in a while, having an on-air throwdown with CNN’s own medical correspondent (and TIME contributor) Dr. Sanjay Gupta last night. (Here’s the transcript, link courtesy of Romenesko; the video’s online at CNN.) The confrontation followed a Gupta [...]

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Test Pilot: Reaper

Photo: Michael Courtney/The CW Test Pilot is a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots may be rewritten, recast and reshot before airing, and end up much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s [...]