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I realize that I have not really written about Human Target in this space yet. I don’t have a good excuse, but I have a reason: boredom. That is, the show hovers for me in some limbo between good and bad, neither good enough that I want to note it nor interestingly bad in any way that bears writing about. Its premise seems so slight as …
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Yesterday, I got the ABC logline and press release for next week’s Richard Alpert-centric episode of Lost. (SPOILER ALERT: Richard “faces a difficult choice.” I really hope that didn’t blow the whole series for you.)
What interested me most was the title, “Ab Aeterno.” Which made me think: Oh, yeah—Latin. What was up with the …
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Alex Chilton, a great American songwriter, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack in New Orleans, at age 59. First with The Box Tops but most importantly with the Memphis band Big Star, Chilton all but invented American power-pop, even if most people will know him more by the bands he influenced than by his own spectacular …
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol final-twelve elimination last night:
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In your late-night update for the week:
* Two weeks into his restoration, Jay Leno is still leading David Letterman in the ratings, albeit with fewer viewers than when he left the Tonight Show.
* Dave, meanwhile, had fellow Leno-basher Jimmy Kimmel on his own show (above) to fondly reminisce about the Jaypocalypse.
* And the LA …
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Here’s what your favorite political obsessive is going to be doing today, now that Rep. Dennis Kucinich has already had his minute in the spotlight announcing his support of the health-care bill: poring through the C-SPAN Video Library, a collection of every video on the public affairs network since 1987. The database is massive and …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a beer, heat up a TV dinner, soak in a little bit of the homespun wisdom of Michael Landon, then watch last night’s Lost.
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Last night, the final twelve contestants on American Idol performed the music of the Rolling Stones. Did they start you up? Did they give you satisfaction? Click on the pictures for one TV critic’s individual (and definitely non-music-expert) reviews:
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Two decades after she was a Golden Girl, Betty White has managed to become TV’s It Girl. First she got a (prescient) career achievement award from the Television Critics Association and a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. Then the 88-year-old landed in one of the best Super Bowl ads (above) this year, taking a …
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The first thing you need to know about Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty is that it contains a possessive, not a contraction. It is a show called The Price of Beauty that stars Jessica Simpson. The title is not telling us that Jessica Simpson Is The Price of Beauty.
But in a way both reads are accurate. That is, Jessica Simpson is …
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American Idol‘s final 12 kick off the finals tonight with the music of The Rolling Stones (look for my picture-gallery reviews to post overnight), and somewhere Tyler Grady is cursing fate that he never got the chance to properly show off his Jagger strut. The choice of artist means that, as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, someone …
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Tonight FX debuts Justified, its Elmore Leonard-based US marshal drama starring Timothy Olyphant. I liked what I’ve seen a lot, and my review ran long enough ago that I figured I should point you to it again:
It seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made them. Maybe the genre,
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Just caught up on How to Make It in America, the first episode to air since the review copies HBO sent me. In my review, I, like most critics I’ve seen compared the series to Entourage (with which it shares a producer). The makers of the show have resisted the comparison, though it’s meant as a compliment: it reminds me of the things I …
