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NBC: Green as a Peacock

A choice, 100% postconsumer-recycled nugget from the New York Times’s NBC press tour coverage this morning: [NBC entertainment chief Ben] Silverman also announced that all of NBC’s prime-time shows would participate in a companywide pro-environmental project called “Green Is Universal” for a week in November. Every show on NBC would have a story line with [...]

Frank Stella: The Artist as Architect

Constantini Museum (Model), 1999 — Photo: Steven Sloman; Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society I finally caught up last week with the pair of Frank Stella shows at the Metropolitan Museum. The larger of the two, Painting Into Architecture, is closing July 29. I think I put it on the back burner partly because of a mostly [...]

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Big Love Watch: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Big Love, watch out for that Holy Spirit sucker punch. HBO photo: Lacey Terrell Last week we watched Bill take off his ring with Ana in the diner and wondered: was it love or was it lust? Turns out it was love–just on a different person’s part. [...]

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Test Pilot: Chuck

Levi, left, with Joshua Gomez. NBC Photo: Greg Gayne 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 [...]