I caught a preview screening last week of Chris and Don: A Love Story, a documentary about the 34-year relationship between the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the L.A.-born artist Don Bachardy, which has now moved into a few theaters. Isherwood was 48 in 1954 and already …
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The New Yorker has a long and worthwhile profile of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. (Beauty quote: why did he tell President Bush to “shut the hell up” in a special comment this year? “Because I can’t say, ‘Shut the f___ up,’ that’s why, frankly.”) But the nugget of nuggets is that CBS interviewed him as a possible replacement for …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, hop into your bomb shelter and watch the 2008 finale episode of Battlestar Galactica.
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Every once in a while there’s some hand-wringing over the future of the Tony Awards as a TV event, because fewer people are watching it. I’ve always wondered why as many people watch it as do. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy a good August: Osage County joke as good as the next guy who’s, um never seen the play, but if anything is a …
After work last Friday I stopped by the Van Alen Institute, an organization concerned with architecture and city planing, to watch Rem Koolhaas interviewed on a small stage by Hans Ulrich Obrist, who’s been doing a series of public Q&As with architects and artists. The subject, …
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Because of factors beyond my control—most of them involving my laziness—I probably won’t get around to blogging, and possibly even watching, the Battlestar Galactica half-season finale this weekend. If you’re wandering by in the meantime, consider this a free space to discuss it in my absence. Or wait until my BSG post, which will go …
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He died suddenly, at work, in the NBC Washington bureau this afternoon. Whether you praise or criticize him (and I’ve done both), his influence on political journalism has been immense, as he’s demonstrated right up through his last election. My obituary of him should be is online at time.com. shortly.
Update: Appropriately, and …
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Adult Swim’s newest comedy, debuting Sunday night, may not necessarily be the best show of 2008. But it has probably already won the award for best title of 2008. Fat Guy Stuck in Internet, is, like Snakes on a Plane, the kind of it-is-what-it-is title that practically …
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The New York Times runs a front-page feature this morning on the debate over whether media coverage of Hillary Clinton was sexist, how much of it was and what effect it had on her candidacy. On one side you have longtime Clinton supporters, DNC head Howard Dean and CBS anchor Katie Couric, who have argued that coverage of Clinton was at …
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Taking up Chaddogg’s suggestion from last week’s Lost Discussion Group, I’ll raise the same question I did at the beginning of last summer’s LDG: Where do you think the next season of Lost will kick off?
You can answer as generally or specifically as you want. For instance:
* What’s the first scene of Lost, season five, episode one? …
Last week I toured through the Henry Moore outdoor sculpture show at the New York Botanical Garden. Somebody from Time.com brought along a video camera. There was nothing I could do to stop them.
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In this week’s Time, I review Showtime’s high-priced escort comedy (the escort is high-priced, though I guess Showtime isn’t cheap either), Secret Diary of a Call Girl, about a London hooker (Billie Piper) whose real name is Hannah but whose trade name is “Belle.” Showtime has …
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Bravo announces the premiere date, and a new time, for the next season of Project Runway. For adults.
NEW YORK – June 12, 2008 – Fashion, fierceness and fun all add up to five seasons of fabulous. Bravo’s highly-anticipated fifth season of the three-time Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning creative competition reality series
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