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J-Lo's Miracle Foot Cure; or, Project Runway Judging More Strenuous Than Triathlon

Sept. 12, 2008: The big surprise at the Project Runway fall show in Bryant Park this morning was not which contestants were showing but who was sitting on the other side of the judges’ table. The guest judge for the finale is… Jennifer Lopez! Not! Actually, Heidi Klum took to the runway to inform us, [...]

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What Seth MacFarlane Can Teach SNL

Yesterday, I posted a review of a web-video snippet of a single SNL sketch. This morning I wrote about Seth MacFarlane’s venture into Web video, which shows that his humor works best isolated into 90-second chunks. There’s a connection here, right? I’ve seen several reviews today of the season premiere of SNL, which seems like [...]

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Mad Men Watch: Communion

Making the sale, losing the market. / AMC SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, crack open a beer from Holland and watch last night’s Mad Men.

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Seth MacFarlane Finds His Medium

Back in the Wild West days of YouTube, before the copyright lawyers arrived to harsh everyone’s mellow, you could scan through the currently-playing videos and conclude that Family Guy must be the highest-rated show on TV, if not the most popular entertainment on the planet. Family Guy does well enough, of course, but it’s only [...]

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The Morning After: Twice Bitten?

There didn’t exactly seem to be a clamor for a weekly True Blood Watch last week, but has anyone stuck with it? Second impressions? I did actually find the series improved by the fourth and fifth episodes, but I don’t know if it’s enough, or if many people will stick around until then.