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[Oscar night. Mrs. Tuned In is putting the Jrs. to bed while I take notes for the blog.]
TUNED IN JR. JR. [Peers down from the top of the stairs]: Daddy!
MRS. TUNED IN: Come back over. Daddy has to work.
TUNED IN JR. JR. [Looks through the railing, seeing me on the couch, as Ryan Seacrest interviews Miley Cyrus on the red carpet. …
The disputed Greek boy up there seems to be puzzling over where he’s headed next. With the return of scores of antiquities from U.S. museums, the Italian campaign to retrieve smuggled artifacts may have reached, to use an Italian word, its crescendo. But the wider struggle …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab some boxed wine, a backgammon set, place an armed grenade in your mouth and watch last night’s Lost.
How exactly did Chaddogg wrest control of Lostwatch from the cold, metal claws of Robo-James?
Well, after pulling a Charlie …
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A reminder: Tuned In’s own Chaddogg will be guest-posting on last night’s Lost later this morning. Watch this space. Any second now. Keep hitting refresh–we need the pageviews! In the meantime… um, how about that Celebrity Apprentice?
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Come back tomorrow for a very special edition of Lostwatch: Tuned In habitue and professor of Lostology Chaddogg has graciously agreed to do a guest post about this week’s episode. So if you notice an alarming amount of competence and insight in your Lostwatch this week, you can blame it on him. Look for it here tomorrow. And don’t …
A lot of the art news this week is in courtrooms.
The slow motion trial of former Getty antiquities curator Marion True and dealer Robert Hecht trundles on in Rome.
And Fisk University is back in Davidson County Chancery Court. Having failed to sell part of its Alfred Stieglitz Collection, which was a gift to the school from …
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Another user-generated discussion topic, this one from regular Tuned Inlander Rottin’ in Denmark:
We could talk about all the good books we read during the strike.
I suspect RID was being sarcastic. But let’s run with it. A lot of pundits, myself included, prognosticated about how viewers would change their routines during the strike. …
One other thing that happened while I was away last week. The people who run the London Underground — that’s subway in American — reversed themselves and decided to lift a ban they had imposed earlier on an ad for an upcoming exhibition of work by Lucas Cranach the Elder at London’s Royal Academy. The ad caused problems because it …
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Today’s Robo-James topic comes to you courtesy of guest programmer Chaddogg:
What (prematurely) cancelled shows deserve a better finale (i.e. two-hour special, final mini-season to wrap things up, etc.)? And how would you like to see the show end?
I can think of a lot of shows in this category – Veronica Mars (although the 3rd season
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As you read this, I should be in Florida at the summer condo of the Tuned In-Laws, where–Mrs. Tuned In-Law being an avid American Idol fan–I almost certainly have watched the semifinal Round of 24 kick off. But I’m in a senior community with limited Internet access–and believe me, you don’t want to fight the seniors at the community …
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When I posted about the upcoming Star Wars animated series last week, I forgot to mention one reason to be (guardedly) optimistic about the show. It’s just possible that, simply by virtue of forcing someone to write about the SW prequel characters for dozens of episodes, the series may put the kind of flesh on Amakin and company that …
A few things happened while I was away for a week. I’ll comment on two.
First — I don’t think I’ll need to read another word for a while about the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum in L.A., which debuted to middling reviews for both the opening exhibition and for the Renzo Piano building. All the same, one related controversy stayed …
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“God, I love robots.” —Andy, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
What better way to begin a week with Robo-James than with his favorite topic: great robots in television history! Today’s programming alone offers a wide choice, from the sinister (BSG’s Cylons) to the friendly (Yo Gabba Gabba!’s Plex) to the promotional (J. J. …
