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TV Tonight: 30 Days a Week

I don’t have time to full-on review it, as I really need to start doing some things that are not this blog, but a quick reminder that Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days returns tonight to FX. (Nutshell premise: every week, a subject spends a month living the life of someone else whose lifestyle is very different, [...]

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Should Men Be Allowed to Review SATC?

An interesting post at Hollywood Wiretap about a subject that I had been curious about but never got around to researching fully: were male critics more likely to pan the Sex and the City movie than women? I hadn’t thought so, mainly because the harshest reviews I’d read were from two female critics, Salon’s Stephanie [...]

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HuffPo's Double-Edged Sword Cuts a Clinton

It’s become a familiar scene in modern politics: the pol who came up in an era when you could speak off the cuff without being recorded, getting caught by the new Internet panopticon and having his or her embarrassing words or images posted on the Web. This time, the catch-ee was Bill Clinton, recorded on [...]

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The Morning After: Digging Back In

Not a single Baldwin among them, ABC’s mole-hunters return. / ABC/ADAM LARKEY After it debuted in 2001, but before it was remade as a VH1-like celebreality show for D-listers, The Mole developed a cult following as “the smartest reality competition on TV,” which I guess is a little like being the best cross-country skiier in [...]