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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 …
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The newly redesigned print version of TIME magazine includes a newly redesigned version of my column, complete with an author photo, which is mercifully smaller than the one you’re forced to look at on this blog.
The first installment of the new-style Culture Complex looks at a theme I first sounded out here at Tuned In: the shift in …
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Tonight on NBC, we say a brief see-you-later to 30 Rock (which, with every episode, I regret a little more not putting on my 2006 10 Best list) and a welcome-back to Andy Richter. In 30 Rock’s time slot, Andy Barker, P.I. has Richter playing a mild-mannered CPA (like there’s another kind on TV) who inadvertently inherits a private-eye …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost, don’t cross the invisible threshold below, unless you want blood to spurt out of your ears.
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Lostwatch fans–yes, both of you–are probably wondering about now why I’ve fallen asleep on the job. Technical problems, involving time.com, or our blog-hosting company, …
Send appreciative e-mails to Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who is thinking out loud about the possibility that LACMA might acquire a few architecturally important modernist homes in the LA area, including — possibly — Frank Gehry’s own famously deconstructed bungalow in Santa Monica.
Gehry …
I see from last Sunday’s New York Times that Charles Saatchi has started up a Chinese version of Stuart, the sort of MySpace for art students that’s a heavily visited subdivision of the Saatchi gallery website. If you don’t already know it, it’s a place where students can chat, show examples of their work, and post comments and links to …
