Just a few days after a judge said that Mass MoCA could show Christoph Buchel’s disputed installation in an unfinished state, the museum has decided simply to clean the thing out altogether. Geoff Edgers has the story at The Boston Globe. Over at the museum’s website, Mass MoCA Director Joseph Thompson expresses his desire to move on …
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The Morning After: Reap Some Cane, House Some War…
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The months of hype are over and the first Tuesday night of the new season is history–let’s have your reviews of Reaper, Cane, returning shows like House, the third night of The War, etc.
Previews of Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy Money and Life coming up in this space. In the meantime, here’s what I thought …
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JPTV: Don't Fear Reaper
Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW
A reminder, to anyone who still needs one, to catch the season’s best comedy and best action show, Reaper, on The CW. If I have one complaint–and I always have one complaint–it’s that I don’t know if this sweet and hilarious show has the bigger themes and depth of characters to make it another Buffy. …
Marion True: It’s Official
The Associated Press is reporting that, as expected, right after the Getty Museum signed its deal with Italy promising to return 40 contested antiquities, the Italians dropped their civil case against the former Getty Curator Marion True. But, say the Italians, for now the separate criminal case against True will still be going …
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The Wheels of Commerce Go Round and Round
It’s fall premiere season, yet all I want to do is write about car commercials. (Maybe because I’m in the middle of buying one of these. Warning: does not actually transform.)
This morning I complained about Nissan using a Clash song to sell the new Rogue during Heroes (scroll down). So why did that bug me, while I find this Magnetic …
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Tell Me You Love Me Watch: "Oh, My God! TiVo!"
They’re not just kids; they’re human shields. Doug Hyun / HBO
What’s more destructive to a relationship? Is it infidelity? Is it children? Or could it be… TiVo?
If TV, after all, is the perfect tool for conversation-avoidance for a troubled couple, then TiVo promises to raise the medium to new heights of efficient, commercial-free, …
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Cane: How Can Something So Sugary Taste So Bland?
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“Sugar is the new oil,” says rum-family scion Alex (Jimmy Smits) on CBS’s Cane. Which is a not so subtle way of trying to tell the viewer, “Cane is the new Dallas.”
It’s not, but let’s indulge them for a minute and continue the parallel. It’s also a rich-family saga, but in this case, the family is the Duques, a …
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The Morning After: Nerd Night, HIMYM, More Burns, Less Burns…
NBC Photo: Michael Yarish
Big round of new-series and returning-shows premieres last night (see below for the Heroes thread). I reviewed some yesterday; now it’s your turn. Did Chuck suck? Should Journeyman… um… returneyman? I don’t have any rhymes for The Big Bang Theory or How I Met Your Mother, but you get the point.
Also, feel …
Van Gogh’s Letters
Sketch by van Gogh in a letter to Émile Bernard, March 1888, Thaw Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library.
As anyone knows who has ever dipped into Van Gogh’s correspondence with his brother Theo, his letters aren’t just art historical documents. He talks into your ear. Each of the letters are little gems of lyrical, intimate and …
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Heroes Watch: The Squiggly Thingy of Death!
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes–hey! Stop drinking that coffee and look at me when I’m talking to you!
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The downside to all that closure that Heroes bends over backwards to give you is that, once an arc ends, the show has to tap-dance pretty fast to set new stories in motion. Gotta get …
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JPTV Jr.: Mo' Gabba Gabba
I would be remiss if I did not tell you that TV’s most awesomely weird children’s show (and not-children’s show), Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba!, was airing new episodes this week.
And that–for those parents who are not ashamed of further obsessing over their kids’ obsessions–the show has a behind-the-scenes production blog.
And if I did …
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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight: "–dary!"
Monty Brinton/CBS
We’ve waited four months for Barney to complete that adjective, and he does, on the season return of How I Met Your Mother. The episode itself is an average one at best–including a dull guest role by Mandy Moore as Ted’s rebound squeeze and a slightly better Enrique Iglesias turn as Robin’s–but there are promising …
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Geek Chorus
NBC Photo: Mitch Haddad; Robert Voets/CBS; NBC Photo: David Moir
Why did Monday become nerd night on network TV? Maybe it’s because it’s far enough away from Sci Fi Channel’s Friday night programming block; maybe it’s because viewers need a refuge of programming with more testosterone than Monday Night Football yet less estrogen than Dancing …
