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South Park Watch: Carry On, My Wayward Sons

It may defy union solidarity to say it, but thank God we have South Park for at least one more week. “Guitar Queer-o” wasn’t the work of animation brilliance that “Make Love Not Warcraft” was, but it was pretty brilliant in its own right. Like that earlier episode, it showed Parker and Stone’s gift for [...]

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MSNBC Offers Too Little Green,* Gets No Rosie

“everything happens for a reason,” Rosie O’Donnell philosophizes in her all-lowercase r blog, announcing that her potential talk-show deal with MSNBC has fallen through. The reason in this case, reports the LA Times, was money–she wanted network money, they offered basic-cable money. Someone, apparently, neglected to tell her that when you put “MS” in front [...]

The 10 Best Coen Brothers Moments

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The Coen Brothers return with the thriller No Country for Old Men, starring Javier Bardem as a psycho killer, Tommy Lee Jones as a saintly sheriff, and Josh Brolin as a man on the run. A look back at the Coens’ best movie moments.

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Strike Zone: 24 86ed, Office Downsized; Will It Be Short or Long?; Send in Ari Gold!

Better reset that clock. Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Fox Let’s take care of the morning’s strike news in a hail of bullets: * The strike is already claiming its first schedule victims. Fox has postponed season 7 of 24 (disaster or silver lining?) so that it can be aired in its entirety whenever the strike [...]

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The Morning After: A Little Bit Country

Actually, the only part of Tuned In that is even a little bit country is the part that watches American Idol, and Nashville before it got cancelled. (Well, my iPod includes a couple Dixie Chicks albums, but mostly because I’m one of those East Coast communists who hates America.) But surely there’s a Tuned Inlander [...]