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Showtime’s The Tudors, which debuts this Sunday, tries to show us that the life of Henry VIII was one of great passions. The series, however, does not inspire great passions. The idea was good enough: to re-tell the story of Henry and Anne Boleyn, but turn the clock back to Henry VIII as a virile, fiery, …
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In the print TIME this week, I preview the first two of the last nine Sopranos episodes ever, debuting on HBO April 8. The spoilers in this piece are not very spoilery, but if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing, you may want to bookmark this and save it. Or, you know, forget I ever wrote it. Here’s a (nonspoilery)
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When I was done with what I had to say about Richard Rogers it looked longer than a blogpost to me, so I put it up in all it’s multi-illustrated glory directly on time.com instead.
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Chris Sligh may not have won American Idol this season, but he has a legacy. Two, actually. First, he broke my mammoth two-weeks-in-a-row run of predicting American Idol’s ejectees. Second, he proved that, while there are definitely patterns to American Idol voting and a history to learn from, you can’t just strategize your way to the …
I don’t think it’s a confusion she intended to create, but I notice that art blogger Lee Rosenbaum has a post today that could leave the mistaken impression that I broke an embargo yesterday by reporting in advance of the official announcement — it comes later today — that the architect Richard Rogers had won the Pritzker Prize.
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Lost yet, stay very still for eight hours, until the feeling of numbness passes.
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Last night’s was a really cool episode of Lost. That is a different thing, however, from a really good episode of Lost. The installment in which the show explained–then killed off–the much-loathed …
Tomorrow the Hyatt Foundation will announce that this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most visible honor, will go to Richard Rogers, the British pioneer of high tech, designer of the furiously imagined Lloyd’s of London headquarters in London and co-designer (with Renzo Piano) of the Pompidou Center in Paris.
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I’ve had MSNBC on in the background while I write, and they seem to be devoting practically the entire morning to American Idol. So Tuned In’s going to step into the breach and cover the 2008 presidential race.
Following up on Katie Couric’s controversial interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards, CBS has released its own poll showing …
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Reviews of last night’s Idol performances are here. People who write “Discuss” in their blog posts are annoying, but–discuss.
Bottom line, it was a night of not-their-best perfs from the best singers (LaKisha, Blake, Melinda, etc.) and of fairly good outings by some not-the-best singers (Gina, Phil), so most of my reviews are somewhere …
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A reminder that my weekly Judging American Idol feature will be up again tomorrrow morning at time.com. The best thing about my reviews, for all of us, is that they get one contestant shorter every week.
I want to address a criticism, by the way, that has been made–well, not by any actual reader that I know of yet, but by the little …
Just last Thursday the Senate, at the instigation of Iowa’s non-profit-institution-spanking Sen. Charles Grassley, voted to freeze a $17 million budget increase for the Smithsonian as a way to create pressure for reform in the operations of the office of Lawrence M. Small, the high living ex-banker who is the Smithsonian’s Secretary. Or …
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Attention, Viacom executives: See that TV-looking thing above this post? It’s called “embedded video.” It’s what you get when you don’t lock up your content like Rapunzel in a tower, and when you let people who actually like your shows share them with other people. These people are called “fans.” The sharing is called “free publicity.” …
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Hola! Soy James!
I’m not sure if you need to be a parent to find this TV Funhouse Dora the Explorer parody funny. But if you’re a parent of a Dora-aged child, it’s likely you’re too beaten down by propagating the species to actually stay up for Saturday Night Live. So thank God for YouTube, Mommy and Daddy’s Little Helper.
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