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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost yet, go to that magic box in your living room, the box that will make anything you want appear, if you only think of it…
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Well! I wonder how they’re going to get out of this one. I don’t mean Kate, Locke and Sayid. (Although I do hope we’re not in for another long …
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As a parent, you have the shows that your kids watch that you love, the ones you tolerate and the ones you dread. (Unless you have banned TV from your house and engage your kids only in wholesome, improving pursuits. In which case, isn’t there a taffy-pulling blog you should be reading?) The Backyardigans originally fell into …
Van Gogh and Expressionism at the Neue Gallerie. Ok, not the best show I’ve ever seen in N.Y., but certainly the best for a while, enlightening, well focused and full of powerful canvases. And not just by Van Gogh, but by the German and Austrian artists the Neue was established to elevate, like Schiele, Klimt, Kirchner, Emil Nolde and …
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My weekly American Idol performance review has been bumped up from the blog to its own page at time.com, where it’s getting the big, flashy, multimedia treatment. (Well, there are words and pictures. That’s two media, right?) Check it out, then come back here and tell me why I’m an idiot. Consider yourself the fourth judge.
But enough …
Met last night for drinks and a bite to eat with Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-born artist of Icelandic descent who now lives in Berlin, and who became suddenly famous three years ago for “The Weather Event”, his immensely popular installation in the Great Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. I described it in TIME a while back this …
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FNL’s Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) talks it out with his father (Brent Smiga) / NBC Photo: Bill Records
As part of the New York Times’ coverage of the big Iraq War Fourth Anniversary Celebration Gala, Alessandra Stanley surveys how the war(s) have seeped into TV series, not just on obvious shows like Over There and The Unit, but more …
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…isn’t it? Whenever a new medium decides to celebrate itself with its own awards show, it’s trotting down the jolly road to self-satisfied middle age.
I mean, isn’t YouTube already its own self-ratifying awards system? You can immediately access a constantly updated list of the most-watched videos at the site, and the videos are …
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While I was skeptical of Galactica’s trial-of-the-century storyline, last night’s first part of the season-ending two-parter comfirmed my belief in the show. (I have part two on DVD and am forcing myself not to watch, as I just can’t bear all the greenscreens and temp-effects. We’ll see if I make …
I spent a few days in Los Angeles last week to catch up on shows there. My favorite: the restrospective of drawings by Vija Celmins at the Hammer Museum. You see her work everywhere, I’m always running into one or two, but this was the first show to pull it together for me and lead me all the way into her complicated intentions, a trip …
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It occurred to me after I posted my rambling last week about the similarities between Lost and the computer game Myst that I actually brought that up in an interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof last fall, and that I should go back and ransack my recording. Here are the producers on how the look and structure of the show …
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We’re all about Web 2.0 here at Tuned In–you keep feeding us the ideas, we’ll keep billing the hours for them! This one comes from Keith in the Andy Richter comments:
What show doesn’t grow stale? I used to be a diehard fan of ER many many moons ago and everytime I see and ad, I think…is that still on? I read where Law & Order’s
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I got an interesting comment to my recent post about museums and galleries policing their artists as part of their deals with governments that don’t share Western views about free expression. Here’s the most pertinent part:
The rulers of Abu Dhabi are not “unenlightened,” as you put it;…. rather, they recognize that this is an
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Yes, I’m still watching Jericho. Yes, still not ashamed to admit it. But I do keep getting frustrated–not by the show’s bad writing and phoned-in acting, but by the implausibilities and the weird streak of authoritarianism. (The decision this week, for instance, to keep most of the town in the dark that a passing troop …
