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A quick post while my tenuous wi-fi connection holds up: what are your hopes and fears for the Emmys this weekend? Who do you dream of winning, what would you settle for, what would you expect? (Example: Dream Bryan Cranston, settle Jon Hamm, expect James Spader. Like that.)
Or discuss anything else you’d like–I’m leaving you the keys …
The waters are receding around Mies Van der Rohe’s great Farnsworth House, the 1951 Modernist jewel box in Plano, Ilinois that was inundated earlier this week. At their highest the waters rose to 18″ within the house. Movable furniture had been raised on milk crates …
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I’m going to be on the road for the next couple days, attending to some family matters, so posting will be light in the meantime. Feel free to use this as an open thread. Tuned In should be back to speed Friday. Ish.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, hurry up and watch last night’s Fringe. You’re not getting any younger.
* I should begin this first edition of Fringe Watch by stating that this is likely the last edition of Fringe Watch, or at least, that I doubt I’ll be reviewing the show on a weekly basis. That’s not necessarily damning; I …
On a visit to Tate Britain yesterday I made a point of checking out a small portrait head that’s of very little interest as a work of art. It’s a picture of Sir Edwin Manton, who died three years ago at 96. It’s placed prominetly at the Tate because Manton was one of the museum’s largest benefactors, second only to the founder Sir …
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MTV’s Total Request Live, perhaps the ultimate TV artifact of the boy-band era, will be no more after November, ending a ten-year run.
One of TRL’s legacies, beyond unleashing Carson Daly on an unsuspecting world, was to let fans at home pepper the screens with e-mail shout-outs during the show. That technique will go on, updated for a …
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Thanks to Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC finally got nominated for a passel of Emmys this year, which meant that at some point, someone at the network was bound to remember that they were being aired next Sunday, opposite its marquee show. So AMC has announced that it’s pushing back episode 9 of season 2, and thus the rest of the season, …
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Weeds ended its fourth season last night, without me. The finale is sitting on my desk, but I fell behind over the summer (the early part of the season lost me), and at some point I’ll need to marathon the last few episodes. In the meantime, feel free to roll your own analysis in the comments. Has Nancy still got it?
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You had to know this was coming. McCain campaign surrogate and former HP chief Carly Fiorina has called Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin “disrespectful” and “sexist.”
Well, let’s be fair here. Fiorina didn’t exactly say that Tina Fey was sexist. She said that the skit “continues the line of argument that is disrespectful in the …
The first night of Hirst’s two-day Sotheby’s auction went pretty well for him, with hammer prices — meaning the final bids — coming in just short of Sotheby’s high end estimate for the sale. Then by tossing in the additional amounts paid to the house as the buyer’s premium, Sotheby’s was able to report a total sale of 70.5 million …
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Sept. 12, 2008:
The big surprise at the Project Runway fall show in Bryant Park this morning was not which contestants were showing but who was sitting on the other side of the judges’ table. The guest judge for the finale is… Jennifer Lopez! Not! Actually, Heidi Klum took to the runway to inform us, J-Lo canceled at the last minute
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Yesterday, I posted a review of a web-video snippet of a single SNL sketch.
This morning I wrote about Seth MacFarlane’s venture into Web video, which shows that his humor works best isolated into 90-second chunks.
There’s a connection here, right?
I’ve seen several reviews today of the season premiere of SNL, which seems like a kind …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, crack open a beer from Holland and watch last night’s Mad Men.
