In the continuing drama of the attempt by Brandeis University to — choose your term — transform/shut down/trash — its Rose Museum of Art, more than 50 members of the Rose family rose up on Monday. It was the Roses who contributed the original $1 million endowment that paid for construction of the museum in 1961. At a Brandeis …
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O, Jay: Obama to Appear on Tonight Show
When you’ve got a book to plug or a movie to shill, you go on the Tonight Show. Also, it appears, if you’ve got legislation to move, and economic plan to sell, and an electorate that needs a pep talk. Thus Barack Obama will take the unusual step of going on with Jay Leno as a sitting President Thursday night. Considering the …
Size Doesn’t Count
When the economic house of cards started falling last year, I wondered how long it would take for museums to start cutting staff and programing. We all know the answer to that one by now . But I also wondered if the two behemoths of the museum world might be able to resist. In any discussion of museum endowments, the Getty Trust in …
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Ron Silver Dies at 62
Ron Silver, an actor as well known for his off-stage activism as his on-stage work, has died of esophageal cancer. While I didn’t particularly follow Silver’s political work (he was active in liberal causes but endorsed George W. Bush for re-election in 2004), as an actor on TV (and film and theater), he was distinguished for bringing a …
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Big Love Watch: Nearer My God to Thee
Before you read this post, steal your Mom’s Hummer and race home to watch last night’s episode of Big Love.
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The Morning After: Royal Debut
Last night was the two-hour debut of NBC’s Kings. For my review of the series–sometimes powerful and poetic, sometimes plodding and preposterous–see here; but since I suspect the show drew a lot of Tuned Inlander curiosity, I’m curious to hear what you thought. Long may it reign, or off with its head?
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BSG Watch: Lead Them to Their End
Spoilers for Friday’s episode of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the break:
Homer Page: Lost and Found
I’ve taken an interest lately in The Photographs of Homer Page, the catalogue of a show that just opened at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. It amounts to a rediscovery, almost a disinterment, of a photographer who was prominent enough in the late 1940s to get featured treatment a few times by the Museum of Modern Art. But …
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Office and 30 Rock Watch: Who's the Boss?
Two-for-one spoilers for The Office and 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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The Morning After: Clooney Tunes
I have to be honest about this: I simply can’t fake interest in the Important Television Milestone that is the passing of ER. I was simply never much of a fan. It debuted in 1994, before I was a TV critic, and while I watched it early on to see what all the fuss was about, in the mid-’90s I was much more interested in The X-Files, My …
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Stewart/Cramer: Who's This Song About?
So did Stewart get Cramer? Did he get him good? Did he stick it to him? As I posted yesterday, there’s a big temptation to frame last night’s head-to-head between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer as a battle between two guys. But as Stewart told Cramer, to his credit, “This song isn’t about you.” (Indeed, Cramer’s thin-skinned personal …
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Dead Tree Alert: Kings Review
A proclamation! We have reviewed Kings! Heralds—sound the royal fanfare!
Is it better for a TV show to be consistent or surprising? Is it worse for it to be ridiculous or boring? NBC’s unorthodox new drama Kings (Sunday, 8 p.m. E.T.) comes down solidly on the latter side of those questions. Some viewers will say it’s
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Ricky Gervais and Elmo: Who's Funnier? Who's Softer?
Someone has probably already sent you this link, but it’s late in the day and it’s still funny:
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