[Yes, I wrote that headline in the hope that 18-year-old guys would think a lagniappe was a dirty body part and click on it. I’m not a proud man.]
In this week’s print TIME, I have a big old feature on pottymouthed cherub Sarah Silverman. Her new sitcom, The Sarah Silverman Program, debuting on Comedy Central Thursday, will divide …
Regular Tuned In readers–humor me–will notice some changes today. I’ve been exported over to the Moveable Type publishing platform, which means, among other things, a larger author photo and the schmancy banner picture above, which, I can assure you from the lack of mayonnaise smears and “GO TO ATM” Post-Its on the clean woodgrain, is …
There is such a thing as a documentary becoming too timely. When Alexandra Pelosi (Journeys with George) set out to make a movie about the culture of evangelical Christianity for HBO, she found a Virgil to guide her through the–well, it’s a loaded analogy, but you get the point. Ted Haggard, one of the highest-profile evangelical
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Three thoughts on the State of the Union address:
1. As a pure piece of rhetoric, the speech seemed scattershot and lacking a theme. Much of the punditry leading up to the speech had said President Bush would not be delivering a "laundry list" of proposals. It sure sounded like one to me. Ethanol, health care, Social Security, balancing
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The first two things to note about last night’s episode of 24: (1) It’s good to know that you can drive fast and unimpeded in L.A. half an hour after a nuclear bomb goes off; (2) Even I was surprised how quickly and easily Jack decided to tie up and torture his own brother for information on his dad, who may be linked to the bombing
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My experience of jury duty went like this. I sat in a big room for a long time. I sat in a smaller room for a short time. Somewhere in another room, somebody accused of something copped a plea. And they sent me home. So I cannot report to you as to whether the experience of a trial in Brooklyn criminal court matches what you see on TV. I
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My experience of jury duty went like this. I sat in a big room for a long time. I sat in a smaller room for a short time. Somewhere in another room, somebody accused of something copped a plea. And they sent me home. So I cannot report to you as to whether the experience of a trial in Brooklyn criminal court matches what you see on TV. I
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I’m going to turn things over for a brief guest post by my current e-mail autoreply. Take it away, Auto!
I will be on jury duty beginning January 22 and, unless the Brooklyn Supreme Court has decided to splurge on free wi-fi, will be unable to retrieve e-mail during the day.
In other words, expect posting–much less my blessed …
Great episode of The Office last night. (As for the overhyped musical episode of Scrubs, go here to hear it done right. And Joss Whedon wrote the music himself, instead of hiring pros.) Yet again, I’m amazed at the attention to detail in this sitcom. There are no blank spaces; the characters seem to be thought out down to the atomic
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I have not exactly been a defender of Isaiah Washington lately. But I have to kinda-sorta come to his defense–or at least criticize one of his critics. At the Golden Globes, he denied–implausibly, if you believe his costars–having used a slur against gay Grey’s Anatomy costar T. R. Knight last fall: "No, I did not call T.R. a faggot.
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NBC is reportedly planning to make the Today show run for four hours. Four. 240 minutes. I am deeply disturbed by this, not because I am a particular fan of Passions, which the double-super-sized morning show will supersede, but because the move threatens to break physical laws.
Let me explain: By the usual pattern, each hour of a
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It took months, but Grey’s Anatomy cast members have finally come out and said what previously you were only allowed to kinda-sorta suggest and imply: that Isaiah Washington did, in fact, use the word "faggot" in an on-set argument with Patrick Dempsey. Since reports of the altercation–and the subsequent outing of gay costar T. R.
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People* have been wondering if I want to add any more to my current column–which argues that 24 is not the right-wing tool some critics say it is–in the light of last night’s episode, where a suitcase nuke blew up in suburban L.A. Some detractors–or at least those that ABC News coaxed knee-jerk reactions from–say the blast went too
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