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TV Weekend: Man + Camera Crew + Room Service vs. Wild

Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls returns tonight, continuing season 2, which began airing episodes last fall. The controversy last year, in which it was discovered that Grylls occasionally stayed at resorts and had assistance from the crew accompanying him, did not finish off the show, whose premise is that Grylls travels to [...]

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My Last Miley Post, I Promise, I Think

Regular commenter shara says lays down some common sense in the previous thread on the Miley Cyrus brouhaha: If the parents of little kids are upset, then that’s their business I guess, but they can’t expect a young woman to not grow up just because they want a kid-friendly icon or role model. She plays [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Montana or Molehill?

In this week’s Time, it fell to me to write The Moment—the mini-column that opens the magazine—on Miley Cyrus. Think of it as a last-minute asterisk on her Time 100 entry, written before the Vanity Fair incident, by the frighteningly prescient Donny Osmond (“Miley’s fans are not thinking about the fact that she will grow [...]

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The Morning After: Step into My Office, Baby

Stanley (Leslie David Baker) steps out from behind his crossword. / NBC Photo: Chris Haston Another strong post-strike episode of The Office, which seems to have rediscovered its balance between comedy and drama, while toning down the zaniness of some of this season’s early episodes and dialing up the humor of awkwardness. The workplace comedy [...]

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Lostwatch: Ghost Story

So this guy says to his doctor, “Doc, it hurts when I go like this.” / ABC SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a prescription for sleeping pills, crack open a beer and watch last night’s Lost.