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What's Your Lost Name?

By James Poniewozik

Of the many time-wasters the Internet has blesssed us with, one of the finest is the random name generator. You have your porn name generators, your soap-opera name generators, your prison name generators. But unless my Googling skills are poorer than I think, no one has come up with the much-needed Lost Name Generator. You [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1558 days ago

Corporate Press Release Theater: Ben Silverman To Stop Selling Shows to Self

By James Poniewozik

Here at Corporate Press Release Theater, we usually tend to skip over eyeball-glazing releases from production studios about business transactions. This one, about the sale of hugely successful series-importer Reveille (The Office, Ugly Betty) is an exception because of its implications: Ben Silverman, founder of Reveille, will no longer be able to sell programs to [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1558 days ago

American Idol: Your Predictions Now!

By James Poniewozik

So the American Idol Semifinal 24 have been selected, and the tween girls, grandmas and Wal-mart music-section buyers of America shed a tear that glasses-wearing, curly-headed, Clay Aiken-y, Josh Groban-y Kyle was cut. So far, the girls seem stronger than the guys; then again, I’m pretty sure the girls always seem stronger than the guys [...]

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A Second Look At: Breaking Bad

By James Poniewozik

Walt and Jesse clean up in the meth business. / AMC: Lewis Jacobs SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details about upcoming episodes of the series. When I reviewed Breaking Bad on the basis of the first three episodes, I had one main reservation: that the dark and comic elements of the show were having [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1558 days ago

You Too Can Program Robo-James!

By James Poniewozik

I’m on vacation next week. Don’t you judge me. You have no idea how hard this job is on my tender, tender eyes. Unlike my usual February week off (when I just hang around in Brooklyn watching Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr. while they’re on school break), I’m actually going somewhere, so [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1558 days ago

The Morning After: Rescripted

By James Poniewozik

“Wait a minute… words on a prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funions… the writers are back!” –Jon Stewart The writers’ strike is over, which means I can finally go back to being uninterested in late-night television. I kid, mostly, but it’s true that as far as late-night is concerned, the [...]

+Looking Around | 1558 days ago

Rose How’d You Get So Red?

By Richard Lacayo

The Gray Fort, Jim Dine — Karolyn Sherwood Gallery As I mentioned just before heading out on vacation, I’ll only be posting once this week, today, to repeat a Valentine’s Day post from last year about the color red. I figured it would be a post that wasn’t really on the news, but as it [...]