Because 1968 was such a tumultuous moment there are a lot of 40th anniversaries this year. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the May uprisings in France, the street battles at the Democratic …
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I don’t have time to full-on review it, as I really need to start doing some things that are not this blog, but a quick reminder that Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days returns tonight to FX. (Nutshell premise: every week, a subject spends a month living the life of someone else whose lifestyle is very different, or whose beliefs are totally …
It’s a truism of the museum world that directors who have overseen a major expansion at their museum tend to step down once that work is done. Sadly that wasn’t true for Anne d’Harnoncourt, who died on Sunday before see could see to completion all the changes she set in motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
But yesterday
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An interesting post at Hollywood Wiretap about a subject that I had been curious about but never got around to researching fully: were male critics more likely to pan the Sex and the City movie than women? I hadn’t thought so, mainly because the harshest reviews I’d read were from two female critics, Salon’s Stephanie Zacharek and the …
A friend passed this over to me. Open it.
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It’s become a familiar scene in modern politics: the pol who came up in an era when you could speak off the cuff without being recorded, getting caught by the new Internet panopticon and having his or her embarrassing words or images posted on the Web.
This time, the catch-ee was Bill Clinton, recorded on a rope line calling a Vanity …
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After it debuted in 2001, but before it was remade as a VH1-like celebreality show for D-listers, The Mole developed a cult following as “the smartest reality competition on TV,” which I guess is a little like being the best cross-country skiier in Fiji. But …
Three years ago I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art getting an early look at the Dali retrospective that would be one their big shows that year. It was an exhibition that would try to make the case that Dali’s later work was more important than we usually think it is. The show had …
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In an interview with TV Guide, Harold Perrineau, plainly ticked off that his character Michael was killed so soon after his return to Lost—”What the hell? I came back for that?”—suggests that not letting Michael reconcile with his son Walt plays into a racial stereotype:
TV Guide: Were you disappointed Michael and Walt didn’t
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Very brief spoilery thoughts about Friday’s Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump.
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We don’t usually discuss movie openings in The Morning After, but then again, film adaptions of TV series don’t usually gross $55 million in their opening weekends. Clearly somebody out there saw Sex and the City, so after the jump I have a few extra (very spoilery) thoughts about the movie (which I left out of my review for said …
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Ever since Oprah Winfrey endorsed Barack Obama for President a year ago, there’s been a tendency in the media to yoke their fortunes. They’re both African American Chicagoans, from humble backgrounds, with cross-racial appeal. They’re charismatic leaders, inspiring passionate—to their critics, cultish—followings with messages …
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In this week’s print Time, I joined in the summer arts preview, which you might recognize as pretty much the summer arts preview that ran on time.com. In addition, I reviewed the Sex and the City movie, filling in for Time movie critic Richard Corliss, who was in Cannes when the review needed to close for the magazine. (Tough life.) My …
