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I put The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (debuting Sunday night on HBO) in the DVR expecting it to be a chore. I’m not much of a fan of procedurals; I’m even less a fan of detective novels. (And hence, I have never read the Alexander McCall Smith novels on which this series is based.) Never saw the point. If I want to do a puzzle, …
This is a bit off topic, but at Time I write about the occasional book unrelated to art or architecture and this is one I raised my hand to do. I’m a major lifelong fan of Cheever’s, so I wanted to do whatever I could to get his name back into the conversation.
At the time of his death in 1982 Cheever was so famous that it seemed …
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Spoilers for 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s The Office coming up after the jump:
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Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination after the jump:
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I’ve got two pieces in the magazine this week, but I wanted to link them in the same post because they are, in a weird way, about the same thing. The first is Here’s to the Death of Broadcast, and if you’re a regular reader you’ll know it’s basically a polished-up version of an argument I’ve made on this blog: that the very …
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I don’t want to get you overexcited, but OMG AUSIELLO SAYS FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS IS ON THE VERGE OF GETTING RENEWED. (Scroll down.) The pickup, which Ausiello mentioned as a possibility a while ago, will be announced “any day now,” he says. The deal would bring the show back for two 13-episode seasons, minus at least a couple regular …
We learn today that Yale University has brought suit to assert its right of ownership over what might be the most famous single work in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, Van Gogh’s The Night Café. The university brought suit in a federal court in Connecticut this week to have its rights recognized and to block an …
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File under Culture Wars, Upcoming: Joel Surnow, the vocally conservative co-creator of Fox’s 24, is shopping around a ten-hour miniseries about the Kennedy family. And from the description in Variety, anyway, it doesn’t sound like a love letter. Reports the trade mag, the press release from the potential project’s distributor says it …
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Because the commemorative-postage-stamp format of our American Idol reviews (scroll down for them) does not lend itself to general thoughts or predictions, here are mine:
* The guest. I love Smokey Robinson the singer. I love Smokey Robinson the songwriter. I’m sure Smokey Robinson the person is delightful. Smokey Robinson the mentor / …
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Before you read this post, whip up a batch of waffles—don’t burn the bacon!—and watch last night’s Lost.
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Click on the photos for reviews of last night’s American Idol performances.
To mark the anniversary last week of the spectacular 1990 robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston — among other things the thieves made off with Vermeer’s The Concert, seen above, three Rembrandts and a Manet — I made my way through The Gardner Heist, a new book by Ulrich Boser, a journalist who was drawn into the …
