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TV Weekend: Strike Out?

The biggest show of the 2007-08 TV season will be tomorrow night, and you will not be able to watch it. That’s when the WGA holds a massive hootenanny at the Shrine Auditorium in LA (and a somewhat smaller hootenanny in New York City) for members to talk (or yell) over the proposed deal the [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Becoming Ms. Big. Also: Why Do You Hate Newswomen, America?

Katie Couric interviews Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. / CBS My Time magazine piece about Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle and how they relate to the Hillary-era zeitgeist–i.e., what are the standards, and double standards, society sets for powerful women–is up here. In the piece I briefly mentioned how women like Martha Stewart and Katie Couric [...]

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The Morning After: Micronesia, Micro-Stars

The has-beens and the would-bes hit the beach. / Monty Brinton/CBS I went into the first episode of Survivor: Micronesia–Fans Vs. Favorites expecting to hate it. First: considering that Survivor has now been on the air for over seven years, isn’t every edition pretty much a “fan” edition? It’s pretty rare that the show now [...]

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Lostwatch: We've Got Company

Jack and Kate get to know the new guy. / MARIO PEREZ/ABC SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, watch last night’s Lost. And tell my sister I love her. It was painful to write last week’s Lostwatch because I had to keep myself from mentioning any details about this week’s Lost, which I liked even [...]