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In my review of Saving Grace, I challenged Tuned In reader and Oklahoma City resident Keith to rate how well the show portrays his hometown. He came through:
Did they get Oklahoma City right? Not for me. Other than a very limited number of exterior shots such as the memorial site, the show is filmed in Los Angeles. I guess the fact that
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SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this post until you’ve watched last night’s Big Love. And beware of strange women bearing videotapes.
HBO photo: Lacey Terrell
In-laws can be exasperating: if they’re not cutting off the electricity and physically threatening you, they’re getting hammered on Stoli and trying to feel you up in the kitchen. In …
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Close, left, with Byrne. Larry Riley / FX
Reviewing Saving Grace yesterday, I wrote that I liked Holly Hunter’s performance better than the show. Tonight FX unveils its own big-actress showcase with Glenn Close in the legal thriller Damages, and as they said in the 7-Up commercials, it’s the same thing, only different: this time, I …
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I knew we were in trouble when we saw the Viking. CNN’s buildup to the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate has been schizo: they want to present it as a revolution in politics, by empowering the Web 2.0 Nation, and they want to present it as entertainment, by showing off the goofy videos. (Which, to be fair, time.com has been doing in the past …
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With the nation’s newspaper TV critics meeting in L.A. to cover the summer TV press tour, Variety just ran a story about how, thanks to the bleeding newspaper biz, several of them will not be meeting there anymore — nor will anyone else from their papers. As newspapers cut budgets left and right, one of their current favorite targets is …
Pablo Picasso on a beach, 1937
Right, Pablo?
Anyway, this dedicated but overworked art critic definitely needs one. So I’m taking the next three weeks off. During that time I expect I’ll look in occasionally at Looking Around. But I won’t be back up and running on a daily basis until mid-August. Til then, you can look for me sur la …
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Hunter, right, with Laura San Giacomo. TNT
Holly Hunter’s Saving Grace debuts on TNT tonight, and I’ll be writing more later in the week, for the print magazine, on the new breed of female antiheroes represented by this show and Glenn Close’s Damages, on FX starting tomorrow. Well, that is, I already wrote on this–you just won’t be …
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John from Cincinnati. You’ll notice there is no spoiler warning on this post. There’s a reason for that. The chief significant development–John announcing (again) that “Sean will soon be gone”–was in last week’s preview. Other than that, while there were a few nice moments in Palaka’s motel-tub treatment session and Dickstein’s going …
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Because it’s a Friday, and because by the time September rolls around I may be too buried in fall debuts to remember to tell you about it, I’m asking grown-up animation fans to mark Sunday, September 9 on your calendars: Loren Bouchard (Home Movies) makes his return to Adult Swim with Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, which looks …
From The Art Newspaper comes this story. At the very time that Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has been fighting to reclaim Italian antiquities from American museums, an Italian conservation group called Italia Nostra is in court attempting to block the repatriation to Libya of a second century Roman statue of Venus that’s …
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I finally caught up with last night’s rebroadcast of Victoria Beckham: Coming to America. I could offer all sorts of excuses for not having watched the original Monday broadcast, but the fact was, I just didn’t care that much. In this respect, it would appear I am a true red-blooded American. Despite all the media buzz Posh’s mini …
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I’ve decided to add AMC’s advertising drama Mad Men to the Watch rotation this summer, although, truth be told, it’s been so long since I watched the pilot that this first one is going to be a bit more of a Mad Men Did-You-Watch post.
When I first saw the pilot, I was worried it was a case of pilot-itis, the too-good-to-be-true first …
Figure of a River God, from the west pediment of the Parthenon — © Trustees of the British Museum
I’m just back from a small press lunch with Dimitris Pandermalis, who heads the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum, and Bernard Tschumi, the architect of the new museum, which is nearing completion at the …
