Before the Deluge

The New York City Waterfalls; Brooklyn Bridge Site (artist’s rendering), Eliasson, 2008 / Images: © OLAFUR ELIASSON, COURTESY PUBLIC ART FUND As you may have heard, this summer and fall New York will be hosting a roughly four-month outdoor art installation by Olafur Eliasson called The New York City Waterfalls. Cascades will pour into the [...]

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More On That Controversial Woman in Vanity Fair, and That High-Priced Female Anchor

I am referring, of course to Barbara Walters. The Miley Cyrus issue of Vanity Fair excerpts Walters’ upcoming memoir, Audition, in which—even as Katie Couric runs into more ratings trouble at CBS—she recalls being dismissed as the first female evening news anchor, with a giant-for-the-time salary and a none-too-happy male co-anchor: The press was relentless [...]

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TV Tonight: Odd Couples

GREG GAYNE/THE CW On The CW, the debut of Farmer Wants a Wife, in which Matt, a 29-year-old Missouri country boy with a promising future as an underwear model, tries to find a match from among ten city women. On Fox News, Hillary Clinton makes her first appearance on The O’Reilly Factor. Expect contrived drama, [...]

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Upfront, Downscale: Can You Run a Network Without Those Little Chicken Kebabs?

TV’s annual May “upfront” presentations—in which the big broadcast networks announce their fall programming for advertisers—are coming up in two weeks, but word is they’ll be different this year. For starters, there will be less schedule to announce: NBC made its fall presentation early this month, while the writers’ strike aftermath has affected fall development [...]

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Outsourcing Disney's Teensploitation

I’m on deadline this morning, working on a (thankfully brief) piece about l’affaire Montana for the print Time. In the meantime, and on a related note, you might want to check out this story in Slate. Even as Disney was outraged over Miley Cyrus’ photos on this side of the Pacific, across the waves in [...]

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The Morning After: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond

Jason Castro performs… from the future! / Frank Micelotta / FOX My reviews of last night’s American Idol, Neil Diamond Night edition, are up at time.com. As you know if you watched, however, all 10 performances were outdone by Paula’s strange episode in the middle of the show, in which she began critiquing Jason Castro’s [...]