So here’s a finding that may or may not surprise you: a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of New Jersey residents found that Fox News viewers were less well-informed about current events than respondents who watched no news at all. Our public discourse being the predictable thing it is, this means it’s time to debunk the poll and/or …
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Winter Is Coming Back: Preview of Game of Thrones Season 2
HBO has given an April start date for the second season of Game of Thrones, and this new promo video, which aired last night before Boardwalk Empire, offers a peek at how the series’ world will expand in the sophomore season, based on the second A Song of Ice and Fire novel, A Clash of Kings. Among the glimpses: the late King Robert’s …
Poetic Television: BBC’s The Song Of Lunch
The short film stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson and is based on a narrative poem by Christopher Reid.
Today’s Movie Trailer: Titanic 3-D. Will Our Hearts Go On?
James Cameron’s 1997 classic will be re-released on April 6. Get ready to fall for Leonardo DiCaprio all over again.
Jonah Hill Babysat My Two-Year Old Son
You know how people show you photos of their kids on their phone, and they get so wrapped up they forget what they were in the middle of talking about before their phone came out?
That’s what happened with my Jonah Hill …
The Incredible Gravity of Being Alejandro Escovedo
Ask Alejandro Escovedo how he is capable of leaping between so many musical modes — with intense performances that have him breaking hearts one minute, snapping guitar strings the next — and he often answers: “I have a good …
Today’s Movie Trailer: Brave—Pixar’s Princess Movie
The studio behind the bulk of the past decade’s great animated films has released a full-length trailer for its next film. Brave, out next June, is Pixar’s first film to star a female protagonist (voiced by Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald).
William Shatner’s Bizarre Thanksgiving Safety PSA
Thanksgiving is just one week away, which means that you’ll soon be forced to make that annual trip to the grocery store to purchase a turkey. But if you’re thinking about deep-frying your bird this year, William Shatner has some advice for you. And he has put it in the form of this very odd public service announcement, sponsored by …
Glee Watch: Monstrous Mash
Quick spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
I’ll keep my issue with “Mash-Off” brief, because it is essentially the problem I had with last week’s (much superior) “The First Time.” Here’s the thing: Glee is itself a mash-up. At base, it’s a story about kids (and teachers) in Ohio with real, believable problems—a little unrealistic, …
Britney Spears Does Marilyn Manson
Britney Spears has a new music video…sort of. It’s actually a video filmed for her 2009 Circus tour and it’s set to Marilyn Manson’s 16-year-old cover version of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” So really, nothing about this video is new at all, except the fact that it’s been leaked and you can watch it …
The Morning After: The Good, the Sad and the Odd, in a Night of Big Interviews
I had to save Gabby Giffords for last.
Giffords gave her first TV interview on ABC Monday night, the same night that NBC’s Bob Costas talked former Penn State defensive co-ordinator Jerry Sandusky, for Rock Center with Brian Williams, on the charges of child rape against Sandusky. The interviews aired in the same time slot—one a …
NYC Un-Occupies Wall Street, Manages the Media
New York City police in riot gear raided and cleared the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park around 1 a.m. Tuesday. As it happened—coincidentally or not—this was past press time for local papers. There was no mention of the raid in the New York Times on my doorstep this morning, and when I woke up around 5 …
Marcel the Shell Gets His Book On
Jenny Slate, creator of the viral video hit, talks about her new children’s book and debuts a new Marcel the Shell video.