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…it’s another episode of Lost, the last of three screened for critics in advance. It’s good—maybe my favorite of the three.
If you don’t want to encounter the merest hint of a spoiler as to what might happen tonight, read no further.
If you do want a little tidbit to exercise your minds with while you’re waiting… well, you may …
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It is snowing up and down the eastern half of the country this morning; as I type I can hear the precipitation—having changed over to rain in Brooklyn—adding a creme-brulee-like crust of ice to the overnight snowfall. Despite that, I brought the Tuned In Jrs. to school this morning; there was no snow day declared in New York City, …
On Tuesday afternoon I had a phone conversation with Michael Rush, the still shell-shocked director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. He only came to the job in 2005. And it was just Monday he got the news that the school, looking to bridge the kind of budget shortfall that just about every institution everywhere is …
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So Friday Night Lights finished the second week of its NBC run as part of season 3’s DirecTV cost-sharing agreement. How’s it doing?
On the one hand… it’s fallen to fourth place in the ratings.
On the other hand… Ben Silverman says it’s turning a profit in an hour that used to lose money, and may come back for a fourth season. …
In light of the gruesome news that Brandeis intends to shut down its Rose Art Museum and sell off the entire collection to raise cash, I’m wondering how much of their fire sale mentality is due to the huge hit suffered recently by the Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, the Boston-area philanthropy that was a major victim of Bernie …
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If you’re like most Americans, lately you’ve been wondering: whatever happened to that governor of Illinois, and why don’t I ever see him on TV anymore?
Well, buck up! The Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet has the governor’s travel schedule, which doubles as a handy NYC tourist’s guide to sighting Blago entering and exiting Manhattan …
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Because it is more interesting to write about things people are saying about Trust Me than it is to write about Trust Me itself, I direct you to costar Eric McCormack’s not-entirely-unjustified complaint that it’s not really fair to compare the show (as I did myself) with Mad Men. In the New York Times:
Q. What about “Mad Men”?
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The Boston Globe is reporting that Brandeis University, looking to bridge a budget deficit that may go as high as $10 million, has decided to close its Rose Art Museum and sell off its entire 6000 object collection. I’ve always taken the position that one reason to take the “slippery slope” argument against deaccessioning seriously is …
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Last night saw the debut of TNT’s Trust Me, a light, harmless, but strangely already dated-seeming ad-business dramedy that I reviewed earlier this month:
It has the misfortune of sharing this subject with the masterpiece Mad Men, though its period (the present) and tone (comedy-drama) are far different. Mason (Eric McCormack) and Conner
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I suppose I’m stretching the definition of “stunt-casting” here, as it only qualifies as a stunt to those who know the guy being cast, but for a handful of us, this is awesome: Mike White, screenwriter (School of Rock), TV producer (Freaks and Geeks, Pasadena) and actor (Chuck and Buck) is going to be a contestant—along with his …
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Time Inc. has a corporate-travel deal with American Airlines, which, in the old days, used to mean that, when I would fly out to L.A. for an interview or set visit, I would finally catch up on Everybody Loves Raymond, via the CBS-produced in-flight entertainment for AA.
Now NBC Universal has announced a deal that may find me …
Or at least not yet. That’s the impression I take away from an interesting passage in Robin Pogrebin’s piece in today’s New York Times about the things that arts groups hope the new administration will do for them. Bill Ivey, the former head of the National Endowment for the Arts who is Barack Obama’s transition leader on arts issues, …
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You might think that the spectacle of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment and media self-justification tour could not get more surreal. But that would underestimate The View, which began its sitdown with Blago, hands clasped, being interrogated by Barbara Walters’s giant head on a flat-screen monitor. (Walters was beamed in from …
