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So the LA Times says that George Lucas says that he’s just started work on something that maybe-possibly-just-might-if-it-ever-gets-around-to-happening be a live-action Star Wars TV series. On the one hand, I’m loath to comment on nascent projects like these, which have a way of turning out never to exist. On the other hand, this is a …
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It didn’t have to be this way.
I feel compelled to defend Viva Laughlin at least that far–and it’s as far as I’m willing to go–because it’s important to separate the deserved criticism of this truly bad show from the undeserved criticism. Namely, that it was doomed to be bad because it was a bad idea: a murder …
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It’s a deadline day for me, so I’ll leave it to you to weigh in on last night’s TV, especially Pushing Daisies. If the press reports have been correct, this is about the point in the series where Warner Brothers locked Barry Sonnenfeld out of the bank vault to rein in the production costs–this on a show where the …
And again.
I just arrived in Dallas for The Future of the Past, a conference at Southern Methodist University about the continuing controversies over cultural property and just who owns it. Given the developments of the last year or so — the successful claims by Italy for the return of antiquities in American museums, the decision by …
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Should we be angry we got only 10 episodes of JFC, or glad we got that many? HBO photo: John P. Johnson
I’ve been working on my review of CBS’s musical mystery Viva Laughlin, which, to give you a preview, is just as bad as you’ve heard, but not for the reasons you might think. And it got me thinking. Watching this adaptation of the …
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Last week I asked what new fall shows you’d decided to stick with. Well, time passes and things change, and this seems worth checking in on weekly for a while. Are there any shows that last week convinced you to give up on? Shows you finally caught up with on DVR and decided to add? I’d reshuffle my list from last week thusly:
1. …
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A big part of me was hoping that Don Imus’ rumored return to the air would stay a radio and not a TV story, so that I could blissfully ignore it on Tuned In. But you write a cover story on the guy, and you have certain obligations. It’s the Pottery Barn rule of journalism.
And in a twist on the story in today’s New York Times, it turns …
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This is where we talk about Tuesday night TV on Wednesday morning. It’s obvious by now, right? You’re particularly invited to post any reactions to last night’s Damages, since I’ve fallen behind on the show (and thus may sit out this thread to avoid the spoilers). What’s your verdict now?
Let’s finish up that talk with SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra.
LACAYO: Are there trends in the museum world that you fear? What keeps you up at night?
BENEZRA: One of the things I think a lot about is that there was a time when the values that museums held and the established patterns of behavior that museums acted upon were pretty …
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“If I lived in a place like this, it would be impossible for me not to be happy.” — Jamie
HBO photo: Alan Fraser
I haven’t been quoting Jamie a lot in these reviews, but this–Jamie drooling over the house that Carolyn and Palek can’t wait to flee–is really Tell Me You Love Me in a nutshell: how you can be made miserable by things …
Brad Cloepfil, whose firm Allied Works Architecture is designing the new Museum of Arts & Design (MAD) in Manhattan, took me on a tour yesterday of the still unfinished building, which is expected to open its doors next September.
This is the same project that set off a huge preservation battle in New York a few years ago because it …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn on your TV and do whatever it tells you to.
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The bad news: No Hiro. The good news: No Peter! The bad news: More Nathan. The good news: He shaved! Because his kids told him to! Guess his spiritual crisis is over!
In the absence of Hiro, the best thing on last night’s show …
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So yesterday at Tuned In, we talked about economic free marketeers on TV, and about Drew Carey. Well, friends, it all circles back–to an (online) TV show by economic free-marketeer Drew Carey. In addition to hosting Power of Ten and The Price Is Right, Carey has started hosting webcasts for reason.tv, the video webcasting arm of …
