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Laura Bennett Feels Sarah Palin's Pain

Before last month’s Project Runway fashion show in Bryant Park, I ran into Laura Bennett, the past Runway finalist who was cheerfully nonchalant about having a career and six kids. (My favorite quote of hers about adding a new baby to the family: “Just throw it on the pile!”) It was just after Sarah Palin [...]

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Is "Liar" As Bad As "Terrorist"?

Over at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder has an interesting post about a partisan dispute over press coverage of campaign events and the whackjobs who attend them: So crazy liberals at Obama-Biden events occasionally make fun of Sarah Palin in crude terms, and at times, a more than a few folks have yelled that McCain is [...]

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Wanted: Even More Misanthropic TV Geniuses

FOX I recently got a screener for Fox’s midseason drama Lie to Me, starring Tim Roth as a cynical genius who studies “deception detection”: the science of noticing tiny “microexpressions” in a person’s face to determine whether they’re lying, what they’re thinking or how they’re feeling. The show is yet another example of the TV [...]

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The Morning After: Clean Slater?

So last night saw the debut of My Own Worst Enemy. (To what Mediaweek described as “sluggish” ratings.) Is it your new best friend? Your thoughts on that, TV sports or any other Monday-night tube welcomed.

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HIMYM Watch: Ch-ch-ch-changes

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get your flail and watch last night’s How I Met Your Mother.