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Big Love Watch: Meet the Parents

SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this post until you’ve watched last night’s Big Love. And beware of strange women bearing videotapes. HBO photo: Lacey Terrell In-laws can be exasperating: if they’re not cutting off the electricity and physically threatening you, they’re getting hammered on Stoli and trying to feel you up in the kitchen. In last [...]

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Damages Assessment

Close, left, with Byrne. Larry Riley / FX Reviewing Saving Grace yesterday, I wrote that I liked Holly Hunter’s performance better than the show. Tonight FX unveils its own big-actress showcase with Glenn Close in the legal thriller Damages, and as they said in the 7-Up commercials, it’s the same thing, only different: this time, [...]

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Lessons of the YouTube Debate

I knew we were in trouble when we saw the Viking. CNN’s buildup to the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate has been schizo: they want to present it as a revolution in politics, by empowering the Web 2.0 Nation, and they want to present it as entertainment, by showing off the goofy videos. (Which, to be fair, [...]