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Obama's Berlin Speech: A Star, and Stripes

The flags were the first thing that jumped out: American flags, all over the crowd thronging in front of Berlin’s Victory Column. If the Obama campaign handed them out, it was a good idea; if Berliners brought them on their own, it was good for him. This was what you wanted to see if you [...]

The Big Corbu Book

We hear a lot that the future of books is in weightless digital downloads. No more bulky volumes cluttering up your apartment. They must not have gotten the news at Phaidon, the art and architecture book publisher. Over the last few years they’ve been going the other way, turning out a few giant books, volumes [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Any Others Questions?

A bit of housekeeping: I’ll probably wind down LDG, like last year, by the end of the summer–maybe even a bit sooner because (unlike last year) the season 4 finale didn’t set up any game-changer that made for a season’s worth of speculation. Hopefully, ComicCon—which my L.A. colleague Rebecca Winters Keegan will be reporting from [...]

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Anchors Away, pt. 2: Stuck in the Middle

ABC’s Charles Gibson got stuck with the hammock slot in the Obama-tour sweepstakes, interviewing the candidate between Katie Couric’s first sitdown Wednesday and Brian Williams’ Q&A, scheduled to run after Obama’s much-touted Hoffnungundanderngespiele in Berlin today. Maybe for that reason—or just because hurricanes trump everything—ABC led with Dolly last night. Gibson’s interview itself wasn’t especially [...]

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Norm Coleman Offensive to Bowlers

In my most recent column, I cited Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who’s running against former SNL satirist Al Franken, as one of the prime examples of Campaign 2008′s campaign tactic: humorlessness as a political strategy. Coleman and his surrogates have steadily been using Franken’s history of edgy/offensive jokes (including one positing Andy Rooney as a [...]

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The Morning After: What You Want, Natalie?

Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke Spoilers for last night’s Project Runway coming up after the jump: