While the threat of oil drilling in the vicinity of Spiral Jetty continues, it turns out that Stonehenge is also under siege. The British daily The Guardian has this about plans to build a giant merchandise warehouse nearby, with a whole lot more truck traffic down the highway nearby. This following …
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Before guys’ night on American Idol, Fox ran a promo for its new immortal-till-he-finds-true-love police drama, New Amsterdam: “A cop with over 300 years of experience.” What? I was watching American Idol to get away from the presidential campaign!
As I mentioned …
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Time for a TV SAT test! The O.C. is to The Real Housewives of Orange County as Gossip Girl is to __________.
If you guessed The Real Housewives of New York City, you’re right. If you guessed by looking at tonight’s TV listings, that is cheating and it will go down on your permanent record.
The premise and …
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But it’s not all about traditional TV campaign ads this morning. Jack Nicholson released this endorsement montage for Hillary Clinton a couple days ago:
A few thoughts:
* Old People Have the YouTube Channel Too! The ad’s jokey and probably not particularly strategic, but in a real way, it’s also playing to Clinton’s base. There’s …
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I’ve been writing a lot this election cycle about the importance of viral and surrogate videos; the other day, I wrote that there hadn’t yet been a traditional campaign ad that has had the impact of what we’ve seen this season on YouTube. I may have to amend that now; if Hillary Clinton does well tonight, a lot of credit will probably …
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I watched the first five weeks of In Treatment before the show debuted, when HBO sent out a whole stack of screeners, so it was kind of strange going back to the show again last night, as if I were starting the show’s second season. I still find the show hypnotically engrossing, for all …
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I caught the rerun this evening of The Colbert Report’s interview with PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk. The feisty but sporting animal-rights activist closed out the interview talking about the general evilness and eco-hostility of eating meat, and imagining how she’d like to, after her death, have her flesh barbecued and have everyone come …
I got a chance recently to preview five documentaries about photographers that are turning up this week on the Sundance Channel. Tonight’s is Helmut Newton: My Life, about the world’s canniest dirty old man. It combines archival imagery with video interviews with Newton in later life — he died four years ago — …
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I never expected to be quoting TMZ in connection with the presidential campaign, but the showbiz-nooz site reports that not only did Hillary Clinton appear after SNL’s second consecutive the-media-hates-Hillary skit, her campaign also approved the script of the Amy Poehler sketch. Says TMZ, “Sources tell TMZ the skit — featuring Amy …
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One of Tuned In’s small pleasures of the 2007-08 season, The CW’s deliciously mean Gossip Girl, got an early lease on life for next season today, along with five other series. From the suits:
The network’s most popular series, AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL will return with mega-star Tyra Banks for cycles 11 and 12. Returning dramas
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If you haven’t yet gotten into AMC’s Breaking Bad, you don’t have much time left; the strike-foreshortened season is down to one episode remaining. And if you haven’t yet gotten into Breaking Bad, it’s hard to blame you; between the drugs, the gore and the protagonist dying of cancer, it’s not exactly a rollicking evening of …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, go see Big Walter. Not big nose Big Walter, skinny Big Walter. Oh, and watch last night’s episode of The Wire.
Like a lot of critics, I’ve already seen the finale of The Wire, so I want to be careful what I say about anything that could seem to …
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Over the weekend, there were two new volleys in the surrogate-video war betwen Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: respectively, a new SNL cold-open skit making Hillary out as the victim of the media, and another celebrity-packed music video dedicateed to Obama from the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am. As is so often the case with sequels, both …
