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Obama's Pre-View

If you can’t wait for the most important interview of the 2008 election—Barack Obama, tomorrow morning on The View—preview clips have been posted on abc.com. In the three snippets, he (very briefly) discusses Rev. Jeremiah Wright, how to handle campaign attacks, and his distant relation, Brad Pitt. Not much news for politics junkies—well, I didn’t [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: The Oceanic NOT-Six

Today is the first of a month of Lostless Thursdays, so let’s reconvene the LDG for a spring session. As always, tangents and digressions in the comments are encouraged, since they usually raise better questions than what I come up with. The other day I was jawboning with TIME’s John “The Contrarian” Cloud about whether [...]

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Report: FNL Coming Back!*

*And now, the asterisk: it’s not actually an official announcement yet. But TV critic David Bianculli (formerly of the New York Daily News, presently of NPR’s Fresh Air) says that Kyle Chandler has told him in an interview that Friday Night Lights is all but certain to return for a third season. (Link thanks to [...]

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The Morning After: Idol Watch Edition

Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination coming up… after the break!