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American Idol: David Wins!

Yeah, I know, it’s a lame joke, but if professional comic Mike Myers can use it, so can I. Spoilers about which David is the 2008 American Idol coming up… after the break!

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HRC Endorses HBO's Recount

In my last Time Tuned In column I wrote about the upcoming HBO movie Recount, about the disputed Florida vote in 2000, and its potential to stir up passions in the Democratic primary, where certain campaigns are charging disenfranchisement in Florida: Even if the primary is settled by the time Recount airs (or by the [...]

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Reaping Rewards

SPOILER ALERT: Brief spoilers about the Reaper season finale follow. With so many shows disrupted and marred by the aftereffects of the writers’ strike, it’s good to see one series that actually considerably improved at the end of this season. I had pretty much given up on Reaper by the time the strike hit, but [...]

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Does Anyone Like Their Cable Company?

This morning, Time Warner made official that it would be spinning off Time Warner Cable as a separate company. I don’t pretend to know whether the step is a positive or a negative for either company. But I do know one benefit for me: Now when I complain about how much I hate my cable [...]

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The Morning After: Win-Win?

David Cook gestures hypnotically to the Idol crowd. / Michael Becker / Fox My final American Idol reviews of 2008 (dear God in Heaven, I actually wrote 157 of them) are up at time.com. And now we sit and wait to find out which David won. Is it possible that both of them did?