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ABC premieres its four-ambitious-sexy-women-in-the-city-why-no-we-can’t-imagine-where-you’ve-seen-that-before drama Cashmere Mafia Sunday night. I haven’t got around to watching it yet, in part because:
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I sat down with The Wire’s creator David Simon at HBO’s offices this fall, talked with him for an hour and a half, then managed to get a hundred or so of his words into my feature/review in the current Time. And you wonder why he’s angry at the media?
Anyway, I had entertained dreams of transcribing the entire interview and doing a …
I had been thinking today of providing a link to my review of the big outdoor Henry Moore show at Kew botanic gardens, which I caught up with last November on a trip to London. It appears in the new issue of Time‘s European edition. But if you go to the story on line you don’t get all the pictures, so I’m just going to reproduce it …
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In this week’s print magazine, I have a long-ish feature on the final season of The Wire. [News-pegged update: Barack Obama’s favorite show!] It may be a bit Wire 101 for the already-converted; writing about this show for a general-interest magazine, you have to assume a good chunk of the audience hasn’t watched it …
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I caught only Jay Leno’s opening monologue last night in the midst of blogging the caucus coverage, but I have to imagine it won’t do much to appease the writers’ guild officials who say Jay is breaking strike rules by writing the monologue. (The New York Times rounds up the controversy here; see also Nikki Finke’s …
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Somewhere behind all the bloviation and declarations of historical significance last night, there was an actual vote going on, and the beauty of the Iowa caucuses was that, unlike your typical primary, you could actually watch them on TV. C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 carried a live video feed from a Democratic and Republican caucus, though because …
