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+Miscellany | March 26, 2012

The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: March 26–April 1

By Lily Rothman

Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we lay out the week ahead in entertainment. You're welcome.

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Tuned In+Advertising | April 8, 2010

Nike, Tiger Woods and the Saddest Ad of All Time

By James Poniewozik

So there are a few things that are pretty much known to move product. Sex, of course—we all know sex sells. And a good deep discount—people love to save money! Oh, and also? A pained, publicly shamed celebrity staring dead-eyed at you while being interrogated by the edited, disembodied voice of his dead father. It [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | February 22, 2010

While I Was Out: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

By James Poniewozik

Did you miss me? Don’t answer that question! Instead, while I start digging out from under my pile of mail, let’s look at a few of the things I missed (or, at least, ignored) while staycationing last week: * Tiger Woods showed off his sweet new blue curtain, and said that he was very, very [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 6, 2010

Brit Hume: Stop Persecuting Me for Trying to Convert Tiger

By James Poniewozik

Last weekend on Fox News Sunday, anchor-turned-commentator Brit Hume stirred up trouble saying that golfer/adulterer Tiger Woods should convert to Christianity from Buddhism, because Christianity uniquely offers the chance of redemption. Yesterday, in an interview with WTOP radio (h/t Ken Tucker), Hume stuck to his guns. Personally, as a half-Catholic-half-Jewish-pretty-much-totally-secular nonbeliever, I reject Hume’s suggestion [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 8, 2009

"How Will Dave Ever Make Fun of Sex Scandals Again?"

By James Poniewozik

Like this. I don’t know how the legal investigation into the Letterman extortion/affair case will go. Maybe other shoes will drop. The future is uncertain! But with David Letterman’s ratings having maintained a steady level, and with the host delivering a pretty solid Tiger Woods monologue his first night back since Thanksgiving, I think we [...]

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Tuned In+December 3, 2009

Dead Tree Alert: I Swear After This I Am Done With Tiger Woods, I Think

By James Poniewozik

In the coming print edition of TIME, my Tuned In column is about your two big media distractions of the week, and how Tiger Woods and the Salahis respectively represent an old- and new-fangled strain of celebrity: the attention-controller and the attention-seeker. Not that this was a particularly good week for either group. Dear celebrities and [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | December 2, 2009

"Personal Sins Should Not Require Press Releases"

By James Poniewozik

Well, it would be nice to think so. The fact that Tiger Woods just released a statement on his website apologizing for “transgressions” and saying “I let my family down” shows that Woods has discovered over the past week that the reality is otherwise. One question that Woods’ phrasing raises, though, is: to what extent [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | November 30, 2009

Looking for Reasons to Care About Tiger Woods

By James Poniewozik

We in the respectable media are not interested in Tiger Woods’ car crash for prurient reasons. Oh, no. We don’t care about what a celebrity, but a private citizen, may or may not have been doing with his extracurricular time. Nor do we care about the rush of viewers and readers—like you there, who came [...]