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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Big Love, watch out for that Holy Spirit sucker punch.
HBO photo: Lacey Terrell
Last week we watched Bill take off his ring with Ana in the diner and wondered: was it love or was it lust? Turns out it was love–just on a different person’s part. Ginnifer Goodwin got a showcase last …
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Levi, left, with Joshua Gomez. NBC Photo: Greg Gayne
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots may be rewritten, recast and reshot before airing, and end up much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented …
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Weekend travel plans cut in to my weekend TV plans, so I probably won’t get around to Entourage until tonight. Feel free to discuss here.
Did quite enjoy Flight of the Conchords, although with the insertion of Business Time, I finally understood what some longtime FOTC fans mean when they’ve complained that the songs were better in …
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NBC has announced a celebrity edition of The Apprentice to air next season. That is not the scary part of this post. The scary part, as James Hibberd reports at TV Week, is that new NBC chief Ben Silverman wants to recruit actors from The Office to compete in the show–thereby not only unnecessarily extending the life of a past-its-prime …
Not long ago I ran a piece in Time about the threat of demolition faced by Modernist houses around the country, with houses designed by Paul Rudolph as being for some reason a particular target lately. Today I get some related news from my colleague Carolina Miranda, who’s in Florida looking into work of the Sarasota School that …
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SPOILER ALERT: Do not read further until you’ve looked for the Word in the Video.
HBO photo: John P. Johnson
So, it turns out John has his own words after all. And as is so often the case with quiet types, once he gets a head of steam and starts monologuing, it turns out you can’t shut the guy up. If there had been any doubt about the …
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HBO photo: Doug Hyun
HBO has held its TCA press tour session in LA (headlines: Deadwood movies possible but don’t bet on it; Curb Your Enthusiasm coming back in September; nobody knows if Tony’s dead) and brought out the stars and producers of Tell Me You Love Me, its new fall drama that the New York Times has already dubbed “that sex …
Damien Hirst’s pickled shark, formally known as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, has been presented as a three year loan by its owner, the hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen, to no less a grand lady than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
And to think, this is the same Met whose trustees …
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My Culture Complex column this week looks at how Lifetime’s hit Army Wives has managed to deal with the impact of a war that’s still being fought, even though two years ago, the Steven Bochco Iraq drama Over There had people in a tizzy:
The analysis was that it was too risky to dramatize a war in which people were still dying. Yet when
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Top Chef has become a Tivo show for me this summer, recorded and saved for Thursday night to take the place of Survivor, as Pirate Master has so thoroughly failed to do. I spend Thursday carefully avoiding any spoilers. Therefore, I’m not reading the comments–la la la, I can’t hear you–until I’ve watched. But I’ve really gotten …
Fallingwater/Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937
I made a trip last weekend to Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright house about an hour’s drive outside Pittsburgh. There wasn’t any news-related reason. I just wanted to see the thing while I still had my visit to the Philip Johnson Glass House fresh in my mind. In their different ways both …
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Moeser and Brady rock out. Greg Gayne/FOX
In the middle of the first episode of Fox’s Don’t Forget the Lyrics last night, as the first contestant ran through a rendition of the Jackson Five’s ABC, a line from the song ran in giant capital letters on the onstage video display and the screen chyron: “READING, WRITING, ARITHMATIC…”
This …
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Mark it on your calendars: as of January 1, 2008, Court TV will no longer exist. The legal channel is becoming “TruTV,” recognizing its shift of focus away from trial coverage to reality shows.
This Reuters article includes any number of risible TV-biz-isms, one of the choicest being the network’s explanation that it’s going after an …
