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Did Sarah Silverman Do Obama a Mitzvah?

You didn’t have to be Jewish to watch Sarah Silverman’s The Great Schlep video, but it helped. As you know if you’re one of the millions of people who watched it, in the spot, Silverman made a tongue-in-cheek-but-also-serious argument for Jewish grandkids to visit bubbe and zayde in Florida and convince them to set aside [...]

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Checking In On: Entourage

  I don’t ask a lot of Entourage. I know that it will never be deep or groundbreaking or one of my favorite shows on television. I just expect it to amuse me and give me a break: to be a funny, reasonably Hollywood-savvy diversion. So call this faint praise if you want, but I’m [...]

Rudolph Redux

Redux — it means reborn. On Friday I headed up to New Haven for the two-day festivities to celebrate the rededication of Paul Rudolph Hall, the new name for the great, vexed, endlessly abused and now beautifully restored building that was completed in 1963 to house Yale’s art and architecture programs. in the picture above [...]

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Heroes: Connections

Since Heroes is a show about synchronicities and loosely-connected global events, here’s a few related links this morning:  * The New York Times weighs in on the show’s ratings and creative troubles, which have led to firings and shakeups, and have caused agita at the network’s highest levels. (One good point the piece makes: it’s [...]

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Your Life Begins Again Jan. 21

ABC has announced the return date for Lost, which will have a two-hour premiere (preceded by an hourlong clip show) in its new timeslot at 9 p.m. E.T., Wednesday, January 21. Which also happens to be Mrs. Tuned In’s birthday. It’s going to be hard to top that gift.

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The Morning After: Deadliest Foiled Catch

  Friday night, Animal Planet debuted its new series Whale Wars. Inexcusably, it does not involve a tournament of mortal battles between orcas and spermaceti. The reality series follows the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a group of militant environmentalists who set sail to confront and stop Japanese whaling ships, sometimes under threat of gunfire.    [...]