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Tina Fey Vs. Liz Lemon on Hillary

A while ago, in a story about feminism and TV, I quoted the 30 Rock episode in which Liz Lemon says that, in the upcoming election, there’s an 80 percent chance that she will tell her friends she’s voting for Barack Obama but will secretly vote for John McCain. It turns out, though, that Tina [...]

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Wire Watch: No Country for Old Men

Michael K. Williams as Omar. / HBO: Nicole Rivellli SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this edition of Wire Watch, rent a car at Enterprise, use the GPS to find your way home, and watch last night’s Wire. In The Wire, individuals struggle valiantly against systems, but eventually the systems win. They grind you down, overpower [...]

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Oscars Defeat Jon Stewart

The writers’ strike is over, right? That’s what I’m reading in the papers, and Jon Stewart made his first joke of the night about it. But if you expected the Bruce-Vilanchists of Hollywood to storm back and prove their importance by whipping up a barnburner of an Academy Awards in the couple weeks since the [...]