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In my most recent column, I cited Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who’s running against former SNL satirist Al Franken, as one of the prime examples of Campaign 2008′s campaign tactic: humorlessness as a political strategy. Coleman and his surrogates have steadily been using Franken’s history of edgy/offensive jokes (including one …
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Spoilers for last night’s Project Runway coming up after the jump:
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Following on yesterday’s DVD release of Robot Chicken’s Star Wars parody extravaganza, Seth Green and company are planning a sequel:
Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken travels back to a galaxy far, far away to create a second, all-new Star Wars-themed special. Premiering November 16 at 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT), Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
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A few recent architecture developments loosely connected by the topic of cash:
Shigeru Ban will be doing his first American museum. The Aspen Art Museum, which has been housed for 30 years in a converted hydroelectric plant, has selected Ban to design its new 30,000 sq. ft. facility. (About the size of the typical Aspen ski chalet.) …
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…and while I’m on the subject of American media stars touring war zones, I would be remiss if I didn’t share this even more important news: The Hills star (and McCain supporter) Heidi Montag, and her squeeze Spencer Pratt are planning to visit Iraq, with some assistance from McCain’s daughter. (Via Politico.)
Heidi evidently plans a …
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In my post on Katie Couric’s interview of Obama, I made one point about the pros and cons of heavy media coverage: “Imagine if Obama had talked about the ‘Iraq-Pakistan border’ while he was in Iraq.” That McCain line is the subject of a Howard Kurtz story in the Washington Post about how the mainstream media are starting …
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When Barack Obama absconded to the Middle East and Europe, taking America’s entire broadcast network-news industry with him, one question was whether he would get an unbalanced amount of coverage compared with John McCain, or an unbalanced amount of scrutiny. As Katie Couric got the first crack at an overseas interview last night on …
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America’s TV critics are picking the cocktail spears from their clothing, heading for LAX and embarking for their home cities, having concluded one of the weirder TV critics’ press tours in a while. Weird because there was relatively little new TV to preview in it. Largely because of the writer’s strike, but partly because it’s starting …
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Estelle Getty, the Golden Girls’ machine-gun-mouthed Sophia, died this morning. I can’t pretend to ever have been an enormous fan of The Golden Girls, but you had to admire the dynamism with which she took over the show: she was a pint-sized tornado of kvetchy sarcasm. (You might have been surprised to find that she was only 84 when she …
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There’s been much talk, particularly with Barack Obama’s overseas roadtrip, about whether the media are paying an unfair amount of attention to the Democratic candidate compared with John McCain. (An argument the McCain campaign is aggressively pushing.) It’s a worthwhile question, but it’s also worth noting that there are motivations …
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NBC’s challenge: keep the new guy from becoming the bad guy. / NBC
I’ve been linking to NBC’s various press-tour announcements about its late-night changes next year, but they add up to an interesting enough big-picture of NBC’s various gambles that they deserve their own post:
* First, where is Jay Leno going, when and how will NBC …
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At least one chain of local TV stations has found a solution for the nobody-wants-to-pay-for-journalism-anymore conundrum: product placements on the local news. The Meredith Corporation has struck a deal that has placed cups of McDonald’s iced coffee on the anchor desks at its Las Vegas affiliate; McDeals are in place at several other …
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* On the final day of sessions, America’s TV critics finally run out of TV networks, and Tim Goodman jumps for joy.
* Tim Kring says that Heroes will only benefit from returning to the air after viewers have spent a long time watching “a lot of stuff on TV that wasn’t of the quality of ‘Heroes.’” Such as season 2 of Heroes, for …
