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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab a plate of waffles and watch last night’s Heroes.
NBC Photo: Chris Haston
Got a deadline monopolizing my time and verbiage today, so I’ll give you the digest version of Heroes Watch, then let you run with it. A definite improvement for me, perhaps mainly because it returned to the Parkman …
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It’s no The Price Is Right, but the New York Times reports this morning that MSNBC has been talking to Rosie O’Donnell about hosting a 9 p.m. talk show. The strategy: follow where Keith Olbermann’s success has led the third-place news channel and establish a nighttime platform of left-leaning–sorry, “passionate”–talk.
It could just …
Figure of Iris from the west pediment of the Parthenon, Fifth century B.C. — Photo: Elgin Collection/British Museum
In London last week I sat down for a conversation with Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum. I had just paid a visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, so this seemed like a good time to talk with him …
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The problem with the idea behind A Second Look At… is that if the second look proves to be pretty much exactly like the first, the results aren’t so interesting. Thus with The Big Bang Theory, which last night turned out to be as stereotyped and predictable as the first time around.
The episode, in which Halo 3 …
I’ve been watching the price of oil nudge up towards $100 a barrel over the past few weeks, which reminded me that I wanted to put in a word for what looks likely to be an interesting show opening Wednesday at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. “1973: Sorry, Out of Gas”, which was co-curated by by the CCA’s Director Mirko …
Figure of Iris from the west pediment of the Parthenon, circa 430 B.C. — Photo: Elgin Collection, British Museum
In London last week I sat down for a conversation with Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum. Having just paid a visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, this seemed like a good time to talk with him …
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OK, not really, but when am I ever going to get the chance to use that headline again? This is me taking a picture of someone else taking a picture of the Insider host doing a stand-up at this morning’s WGA picket in Rockefeller Center this morning. The ratio of cameras, professional and amateur, to actual picketers was unsurprisingly …
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The striking (sorry) Tina Fey pickets the site of her fictional show and her real employer.
The TV and movie screenwriters’ strike is, of course, about significant issues: the value of labor in the digital age, the shifting paradigms of entertainment, the importance of Hollywood in the national discourse. But let’s not lose sight of …
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Conan O’Brien and the Red Sox’s David Ortiz, both of whom have some spare time on their hands now. NBC Photo: Meghan Sinclair
Even as this post goes up, TV writers should be beginning to picket Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, within convenient walking distance of a zillion TV-news camera crews. As I’ve mentioned before, it will take a …
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We had to sit through two whole episodes of Viva Laughlin to get it, but The Amazing Race 12 debuted on CBS last night, and it kicked off in typical form with a race of peat-laden donkeys in Ireland. The big question thus far is how Kynt and Vyxsin–the goth couple, above, who look like human Good and Plentys–will …
Alison Lapper Pregnant/Marc Quinn/2005 — Photo: Dan Chung
Here’s a quick link to my piece about Martin Puryear in the new issue of Time. Now on to other things.
The first thing — a few months ago I was wondering in this space whether it might not be a good idea for the U.S. to have something like Britain’s Turner Prize, the award …
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The WGA TV and movie writers’ strike will begin Monday, Variety is reporting.
What happens then? When you turn your TV on Monday, there will be no picture. (You may hear a faint hissing sound from the remaining electrons escaping.) Your cable line will dry out and shrivel, not unlike a newborn’s umbilical stump, and eventually wither …
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Tonight on Animal Planet: The season 3 finale of Meerkat Manor. This week in the print TIME: I look at the tearjerking bloodbath that the series has become–Shakespeare! Flower! Mozart!–and what it is about this particular animal and this particular show that inspires such passionate, interactive mourning. As in:
And I’d link to the …
