+Looking Around | 1469 days ago

More Thinking About the Kaufmann House

By Richard Lacayo

With Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House set to be auctioned tonight, lets get back to the subject of how to preserve great Modernist houses from the wrecking ball. (Or almost as bad, tacky renovations.) As I said yesterday, to the extent that they publicize the value of Modernist houses as important works, auctions as a way [...]

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Tuned In+1470 days ago

Corporate Press Release Theater: Christian Slater, Car Salesman

By James Poniewozik

NBC already announced its fall schedule (or its fall schedule for now) a month ago, so its “upfront” today will consist mainly of—well, I’m not entirely sure, but it seems like it, like the other big-network upfronts, will be focused less on new shows than on new ways for advertisers to make money off shows. [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1470 days ago

Upfronts Preview: TV Faces Its Shrinkage

By James Poniewozik

We TV critics like to pretend we’re a heartless, puppy-kicking, candy-from-baby-taking bunch, but we’re as sentimental as anyone else. So don’t be surprised if you read a bit of a melancholy streak in the this week’s coverage of the big-network upfronts, which kick off today. As I’ve mentioned, this week’s presentations will be a diminished [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1470 days ago

BSG Watch: Mother's Day

By James Poniewozik

Sharon (Grace Park) gave her selves a good talking-to. / SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal SPOILER ALERT: Considering this episode of Battlestar Galactica aired Friday, you really have no excuse to have waited three days to watch it—um, like I did… Mother’s Day plans, and the Survivor finale, got in the way of my [...]

+Looking Around | 1470 days ago

Thinking About The Kaufmann House

By Richard Lacayo

Kaufmann House, Richard Neutra, 1946. /JULIUS SHULMAN I’ve been thinking lately about the best way to preserve Modernist houses, some of which have been going to the auction block and some to the chopping block. As you may have heard, the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Richard Neutra’s suave little exercise in High Modernism, is [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1470 days ago

Fallon Upward

By James Poniewozik

Making months of speculation official, it is being widely reported that NBC will announce today (at a press conference scheduled noon-ish) that Jimmy Fallon will succeed Conan O’Brien as host of Late Night. It’s a brilliant, brilliant move. For Jimmy Fallon. For the rest of the parties involved, I’m not so sure. Granted, Conan O’Brien [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1470 days ago

The Morning After: Old Girls' Club

By James Poniewozik

Last night’s final four end the season’s wild ride. / Monty Brinton/CBS SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Survivor finale after the jump: