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I could be all coy and sly about this, but the fact is, I’m preparing a list of my favorite Christmas / Non-Christian Late-Year-Holiday Programs for time.com. (Or I would be, if I were working at the moment.) So this seemed as good a time as any to ask what yours are, since there are almost certainly going to be some that I’ll overlook. …
Picasso with Olga in London, 1919 — Image: Popperfoto
I’ve been posting in recent days about Volume III of John Richardson’s Picasso biography. Here’s part of a conversation I had last week with Richardson himself. I’ll put this up in two installments.
LACAYO: Volume III opens in 1917, just before Picasso met Olga …
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Let’s look briefly at a few other dimensions of the new third volume of John Richardson’s ongoing biography of Picasso:
I think it’s a safe bet that Richardson will be the last of the line of Picasso biographers who knew him personally, a line that includes Roland Penrose, Pierre Daix and even Francoise Gilot, Picasso’s companion from …
Norman Mailer in 1948 — Photo: Library of Congress. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
I don’t regularly review books at Time or discuss writers on this blog, but I don’t think anyone needs to wonder why I would make an exception for this guy.
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Marshall Herskovitz (producer, thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, etc.) wrote an op-ed in the L.A. Times last week decrying the consolidation of TV networks and TV-production studios, and its effects on the quality of TV. Those effects, he says: TV creators have fewer choices who to …
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In solidarity with my fellow scribes in the screenwriters’ guild, I am staging a job action effective Monday. I can no longer ignore the role that my employer, Time Warner, plays in the exploitation of creative labor and, hence, to prove to them that they are nothing without content providers, I am walking off the …
Scenes from east frieze of the Parthenon, circa 438-432 BC — Elgin Collection/The British Museum
Let’s finish up that conversation with the director of the British Museum.
LACAYO: Do you worry about the future of what’s sometimes called the universal museum, the museum, like your own, that features objects from as many cultures as …
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Because you’re not at all sick of me going on and on about the writers’ strike, you can catch me doing so further with time.com Josh Tyrangiel, in this week’s time.com entertainment podcast. At least I’m pretty sure I talked about the strike. I can’t really bring myself to listen to it.
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Tina Fey is probably doing just fine without our pity. But you gotta feel a little sorry for her, anyway. Even as the strike is about to shut down 30 Rock, her show is on a legendary tear: first the Emmy, then a string of great second season episodes leading to Alec Baldwin’s instant-Emmy therapy scene and then last night’s …
Diamond (Blue), Jeff Koons, 1994-2005 — Photo: Christie’s
That big blue Jeff Koons diamond, the one that’s sitting outside of Christie’s this week as a kind of carnival barker for their upcoming postwar and contemporary sales — is it looking just a little ironic today? As you may have heard, everybody in the art marketing …
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Lost show runner Damon Lindelof–who knows a thing or two about shows that people watch on the Internet–pleads the WGA’s case with Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry.
My column in this week’s print TIME is, shockingly, about the screenwriters’ strike. It’s largely a greatest-hits of subjects I’ve blogged about here, with the …
