+Music | 480 days ago

Top 10 Songs That Aren't Sung

By TIME Staff
Songs That Aren't Sung

There are songs and then there are things that position words in the general vicinity of music. TIME takes a look at pop numbers that are more spoken than sung.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 480 days ago

Parker/Spitzer's First Night: Too Close for Comfort

By James Poniewozik

Dear CNN: Nothing personal, I just don’t want to be that close to Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. The new she-said-he-said show, Parker/Spitzer, opened last night with the two hosts and a gaggle of guests crowded together around a round table the size of a medium pizza and, ugh, it was just too close. I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 480 days ago

President Trump? Not If Snooki Runs

By James Poniewozik

Over at his redesigned The Page site, my colleague Mark Halperin has been reporting that someone commissioned a poll testing Donald Trump‘s name among a list of potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates. And in an interview with TIME, Trump is not entirely denying being interested in running: “If I ever did, this would be the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 481 days ago

Mad Men Watch: It's the End of the World As We Know It

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, fake-call a close friend and pretend to watch last night’s Mad Men together. God help us, but Stan Rizzo actually had it right this episode: “It’s the end of the world,” he told Peggy—by way of trying to get in her pants, naturally, but perceptively nonetheless. Picking up [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Boardwalk Empire: Season 1, Episode 3 | 481 days ago

Boardwalk Empire Watch: Gut Feeling

By James Poniewozik
HBO

Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up: The first two episodes of Boardwalk Empire, having introduced and expanded the worlds of Nucky Thompson and the New York and Chicago mobs, impressed upon us how dangerous the show’s lawbreakers were, juts as they were poised to become wealthier and more powerful. Last night’s episode emphasized [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 481 days ago

Rubicon Watch: Kill Will

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s Rubicon coming up: One of the things that’s enthralled me with Rubicon (and probably frustrated some people) is how it’s built suspense by withholding. Rather than give us one explosive action scene after another, it’s created tension by the suggestion of violence, the distant reports of threats, the insinuations of danger—the [...]

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Tuned In+Remembrance | 484 days ago

Stephen J. Cannell, Wise Guy of Primetime, Dies at 69

By James Poniewozik

Stephen J. Cannell, creator or producer of dozens of TV series over several decades, is reported to have died at age 69. Cannell’s extensive list of achievements includes a number of well-known TV series, especially cop and crime shows, and likely The Rockford Files and The A-Team will lead most lists of his hits. (Among [...]

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Tuned In+484 days ago

TV Tonight: The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

By James Poniewozik

Here’s why I don’t post here every time a former Arrested Development star says, “We’re really close to making the movie!”: I’ve heard it too many times to believe it until I see it. Fox’s Running Wilde, likewise, is not the second coming of Arrested Development. Nor was Mitch Hurwitz’s Sit Down, Shut Up. And [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 484 days ago

Oy Gevalt! Rick Sanchez Blasts "Bigoted" Jon Stewart, Says CNN Run by Jews

By James Poniewozik

Update: CNN announced this afternoon that Sanchez is “no longer with the company.” CNN’s Rick Sanchez, a frequent target (like many anchors) of The Daily Show, went on comedian (and CNN contributor) Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show and said that Stewart was picking on him out of bigotry. And then he took it a little [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 484 days ago

NBC Sitcoms Watch: Animated Comedy

By James Poniewozik

I don’t usually do group reviews of the Thursday comedies,* but today there’s a point to it. There’s been a lot of discussion this week on this blog and elsewhere about what the broadcast networks can and can’t do that cable can. But while most of what’s interesting in drama is getting done on cable, [...]

+Movies | 484 days ago

Top 10 Hollywood Remakes

By Glen Levy
Everett

Many Americans can’t be bothered to watch foreign films. The subtitles, you know. Luckily, Hollywood is always ready to jump in with an unnecessary remake. TIME picks the best of the bunch.