Before reading this guest post by TIME movie critic Richard Corliss, plant some azaleas while watching the latest episode of Big Love…
Big news: In a backyard ceremony, Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) took counter-girl Ana (Branka Katic) as his fourth wife. This concluded a courtship that spread over two of the series’ three seasons, …
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Good morning, and welcome to your week of pre-programmed robo-posts. Today is President’s Day, which means two things: (1) I am on a plane, hightailing it out of New York airspace and trying not to think of water landings on the Hudson, and (2) it’s time for a TV President War!
Bartlet for America? Palmer for America? Or are you partial …
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Flesh-James is on vacation this week. While his weak meat-body recuperates from its exertions, this is your daily post to discuss what appeared on your television machine last night, or over the weekend.
Robo-James would like to know, for instance, what you thought of Battlestar Galactica or, in particular, Dollhouse. Robo-James is …
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I’ll be on vacation next week, part of it in Florida, land of early-bird specials and giant-print traffic signs. I may manage a post or two—and time.com tells me someone will be covering Lost, at minimum; also, TIME movie critic Richard Corliss volunteered a guest Big Love Watch for this Sunday’s episode. But otherwise Robo-James …
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Is it damning with faint praise to say that HBO’s new comedy, Eastbound & Down, is a funny show if you don’t expect too much?
What I mean by that is this: whereas some HBO comedies are wry and dry (Flight of the Conchords), cosmopolitan (Sex and the City) or knowingly insidery (Entourage), Eastbound (Sunday, 10:30 p.m. E.T.) is …
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Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse debuts tonight, and you can say this for the series: whatever you think of the time slot Fox gave it, it doesn’t seem to have been stiffed on the publicity and advertising fronts.
My review ran early in TIME, so as a public service, I’ll point you to it again…
Echo (Eliza Dushku) has an endlessly challenging
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I’d complained before that Salma Hayek’s character in 30 Rock was not adding much to the show, so credit where it’s due: last night was the first episode in which she really seemed to be a fully contributing part of the ensemble. (And not just because of all the weirdly timely boob jokes, either.) From her meditation on the McFlurry …
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Spoilers for last night’s Office coming up after the jump:
That screw-the-arts amendment attached to the Senate version of the stimulus package last week by Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, which would have barred museums and other arts institutions from getting stimulus money, has been revised in the House-Senate compromise version of the bill to remove any mention of museums, theaters or arts …
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In this week’s TIME magazine, I have an essay inspired by the magical week after Thanksgiving when my TiVo box crapped out on me and I found myself watching most of my TV on my laptop and my iPhone. Now that TV has dispersed from one machine in the center of your living room to a thousand tiny screens—on your laptop, on your …
Joaquin Phoenix appears on Late Show with David Letterman under the guise of his new bearded hip-hop persona, puzzling everyone. Here are a few more crazy Letterman interviews
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Up on time.com today, and in the issue on newsstands tomorrow, is a package on The 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis. (25, thanks to Facebook, now being the default number for lists of things.)
I didn’t work on writing the list, but there are nominees notorious and obscure from many fields. But I have a further suggestion: …
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…slipped again last night, as James Hibberd reports.
The reason this may be good news? The drop was only 6%—and it was facing the second hour of American Idol.
