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Gibson and Palin, Round One

For the past few days, the entire world has been offering Charles Gibson unsolicited advice on how to interview Sarah Palin. I’ve done enough bad interviews in my day that I can hardly imagine handling one in front of an audience of a million kibitzers. So I’ll spare you (and Gibson) my two cents on [...]

First They Lose a Leger

Woman and Child, Leger, 1921/DAVIS MUSEUM Then they lose their director. David Mickenberg, for seven years head of Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center, resigned yesterday, two weeks after it became public that his museum appears to have lost a Leger, Woman and Child, that had been donated to the museum in 1954. Geoff [...]

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…Lest Ye Be Judged

Project Runway judge Michael Kors showed his own collection at New York’s Fall Fashion Week. WWD calls his spring collection “a bit familiar,” but at least there’s no models “pooping fabric” here! Elsewhere at time.com, Joel Stein offers his take, which apparently differs from the rest of the fashion commentariat. (“Those are the three things [...]

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Your Daily Palin TV Update

ABC has released its schedule for dishing out Charles Gibson’s Alaskan Sarahstravaganza: excerpts of the interview will air tonight on World News and Nightline and tomorrow on Good Morning America, World News and 20/20. [In other campaign-TV news, I should also note that Richard Stengel—a.k.a. my boss—will moderate a forum on service with John McCain [...]

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The Morning After: All Vacancy

As a kind of public service, I took the title of Fox’s hotel sitcom Do Not Disturb literally and neglected to review it. My apologies to those of you who inadvertently, or vertently, watched the premiere last night. But consider this an open thread for discussing it, ‘Til Death or even Greatest American Dog (which [...]

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TV Poll: Your Favorite Foreigners

HBO photo: Michael Tackett I recently got the first few episodes of HBO’s Little Britain USA, which the network is hoping will become America’s new favorite comic oxymoron. (If you combine Britain and the USA, don’t you get Canada?) I’ll write more about the show later. For now, I like it well enough, just as [...]

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Project Runway Watch: The Ugh of Aquarius

Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke The Project Runway show at New York’s Fashion Week is coming up tomorrow, and once again I got an invitation. I went last spring, but I’ve been conflicted about going in the past, because I’ve worried about finding out who’s eliminated in the future and having anything spoiled for me. PR [...]

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9/11, Again

MSNBC is again running its rebroadcast of its live coverage of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, in real time. Whatever you think about the propriety of showing the images or how the media has handled them since, it still continues to be horrible and fascinating: not just because of the ghastly events, but as [...]