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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers about Lost. Not necessarily the spoiler you’re thinking of. Which I guess may be a spoiler in itself. Sorry.
ABC / MARIO PEREZ
Damn you, Lost. Damn you for making me cry. Damn you for making me cry about Charlie. Damn you for making me cry about Charlie, and then not killing him.
Seriously, …
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Spoilers about last night’s American Idol elimination follow.
Whoa! I didn’t predict Melinda’s being voted off American Idol, but that won’t stop me from offering a few theories:
1. Repeat after me: It is not a singing contest. I’ve said it before, but I’ll repeat it–”You get on Idol by singing; you win Idol by telling a story.” …
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I have seen the funniest video of the upfronts, and it was not created by any network. It was made by stewmurray47 at YouTube. Called Caruso Endless One-Liners, it mashes together (with CBS’s blessing) a string of corny Horatio Caine lines from CSI: Miami, with David Caruso putting on his trademark shades after almost every one. It’s a …
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Hugh Jackman guest stars in (and produces) Viva Laughlin. 2007 Upfront Photo: Robert Voets/CBS
The most important bit of news from CBS’s schedule-announcement press breakfast this morning may have been a spoiler about Lost. Or not. You tell me. One of CBS’s new dramas, Cane, costars Nestor Carbonell (Richard from Lost). Now I’m not …
“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.”
— Andy Warhol.
192 One Dollar Bills, 1962 /Andy Warhol
Good old Andy, as endlessly quotable as …
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American Idol reviews are live this morning. My guess for tonight: Jordin goes home, leaving a Melinda-vs.-Blake showdown that will be a more interesting stylistic contrast, but soured by the fact that the judges and producers, through their song choices, seemed to do everything to ensure that result short of cutting Jordin’s microphone …
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The cast of Ugly Betty does a song and dance for advertisers. / ABC
NBC, which is tanking in the ratings, had a screen at its upfront with trying-too-hard-to-impress demographic statistics. ABC, which has a few top ten shows, has Jimmy Kimmel’s Upfront Fun Facts, “Percentage of people pretending to text people on your Blackberries to …
The verdict on Matthew Barney, just in from a Flickr site devoted mostly to street art. (A shout out to my art buddy and fellow journalist Carolina Miranda for spotting this.)
Gosh — was it Barney’s last movie that sent somebody over the edge? You know, that one where he and Bjork take out whale knives and slice each other into …
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Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Go away! Spoilers!
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Um, yeah, so that was a rather big Sopranos for me to miss, wasn’t it?
There’s been a lot of comment that this final set of Sopranos episodes have been “making Tony unlikeable.” The fact is, David Chase has never liked Tony a bit, in the way that some of the show’s fans do. There’s …
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See them online here. Don’t thank me. Seriously, don’t.
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So easy, even a caveman could program it! / GALE ADLER–ABC
Twelve, count them twelve, new shows are coming from ABC next season, including seven dramas, four comedies and one reality show from Oprah Winfrey. You’d think they’d throw in a jelly donut there and make it a baker’s dozen, but times are tight.
Part of the reason for the big …
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8 p.m.: How I Met Your Mother. OK, actually, I would be watching this, if I hadn’t already seen the finale. Now that FNL’s been reviewed, this is the bubble show I’m sending out the most positive waves for, and a few setups from past episodes (hint: pasta sauce) pay off in this finale.
9 p.m.: The King of Queens finale. At least, Tivo …
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I’m in the cheap seats of Radio City Music Hall, where I’ve found a wireless network. So we’re going to go cowboy-style and do an impromptu liveblog, until it wraps up or the John Henry that is my aging Time loaner laptop wears its little battery heart out.
The Shins are playing over the sound system, an apt choice for the network that …
