That screening I mentioned having attended last week, by the way? Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. It was a non-critics’ screening, so I’m going to behave and not “review” it here. (One thing: Neal Patrick Harris + unicorn!) But I will venture a prediction. Whether you love its brand of pot humor or hate it, it will have the …
Something to Hold On To: Will You Miss Your Discs and Tapes?
David Carr, damn him, has beaten me to writing about something I’d been thinking about for a while: the gradual disappearance of DVDs, CDs and sundry other physical artifacts that exist only to store media. With the spread of broadband, downloading, on-demand and other straight-to-you applications, the idea of buying an actual artifact …
The Morning After: Premium Edition
Blogging may be a little light today, so in the meantime I’m going to post this open thread for you to comment on whatever presents itself: which, this weekend, it would seem is mainly pay-cable programming. Weigh in on the debut of Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union, the return of The Tudors, episode 4 of John Adams or—since it may be …
Jean Nouvel Gets the Pritzker
On Sunday the Pritzker Foundation announced that Jean Nouvel was this year’s winner of the Pritzker Prize, the knighthood of architecture. Here’s a link to the piece I posted on Time.com when the announcement was made. And here’s a link to a slide show we put up yesterday of his work, …
TV Weekend: Tracey and Henry
While HBO looks for shows to fill up its schedule, Showtime has two premieres this weekend. First, season 2 of The Tudors begins, and I don’t have much different to say about it than I did when it debuted. The tumult of Henry VIII’s reign, especially the schism between him and the …
More Talk With: Michael Conforti
Let’s finish that conversation with Michael Conforti, director of the Clark in Williamstown. Ma. He’s also upcoming president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, so in this part we talk about some issues affecting museums generally.
LACAYO: As everybody knows, Italy’s been reclaiming antiquities from American museums that were …
Corporate Press Release Theater: NBC to Pummel Own Dignity in Steel Cage
This one speaks for itself:
NBC TO PREMIERE NEW ADRENALINE-FILLED MIXED MARTIAL ARTS CAGE FIGHT SERIES ‘STRIKEFORCE ON NBC’ APRIL 12
BURBANK — March 27, 2008 — In a major step for the fastest-growing sport around the globe, NBC has partnered with world championship promotion company Strikeforce to be the first to premiere a weekly
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The Morning After, After: Belated Top Chef Watch
SPOILER ALERT: Though you’ve had 36 hours to watch it, I’m still saving my (very brief) Top Chef thoughts for after the jump.
Dead Tree Alert: Is Fox News a Lame Duck?
In the print edition of TIME this week, my column looks at Fox News, which became the top cable news channel almost exactly concurrent with the first Bush inauguration, and now needs to figure out what it’s going to be come 2009:
Fox is still the top-rated news channel, but there are signs it’s plateauing. Its ratings started to lag in
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Obama's Pre-View
If you can’t wait for the most important interview of the 2008 election—Barack Obama, tomorrow morning on The View—preview clips have been posted on abc.com. In the three snippets, he (very briefly) discusses Rev. Jeremiah Wright, how to handle campaign attacks, and his distant relation, Brad Pitt. Not much news for politics …
Lost Discussion Group: The Oceanic NOT-Six
Today is the first of a month of Lostless Thursdays, so let’s reconvene the LDG for a spring session. As always, tangents and digressions in the comments are encouraged, since they usually raise better questions than what I come up with.
The other day I was jawboning with TIME’s John “The Contrarian” Cloud about whether Claire is dead …
Report: FNL Coming Back!*
*And now, the asterisk: it’s not actually an official announcement yet. But TV critic David Bianculli (formerly of the New York Daily News, presently of NPR’s Fresh Air) says that Kyle Chandler has told him in an interview that Friday Night Lights is all but certain to return for a third season. (Link thanks to TV Barn.) All that …
The Morning After: Idol Watch Edition
Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination coming up… after the break!