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The Daily Show and The Colbert Report come back tonight. Fans of irony may enjoy the fact that these two shows, the Bush-era rallying media rallying points for American liberals, have reportedly been having a hard time getting left-leaning guests, because they don’t want to cross WGA picket lines. Among the guest names that have been …
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It is probably not in the spirit of writerly solidarity to say it, but Conan O’Brien doing “Blue Moon of Kentucky” on Friday’s Late Night was most awesome thing I’ve seen in late night since the strike, and for that matter since a long time before that.
Three nights into the late shows’ return, I have to say the unscripted Late Night is …
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TV critics, myself included, like to focus on what David Simon criticizes in the show. And there’s plenty. But part of The Wire’s spirit, its heart, is in what it loves. And The Wire loves, above all, good old-fashioned work. As much as Simon believes that the war on drugs is a waste and an exercise in futility, …
Tan Tan Bo Puking — a.k.a. Gero Tan, Murakami, 2002 — Courtesy: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
On a swing through L.A. two weeks ago I caught up with “© Murakami”, the retrospective at the Geffen Contemporary outpost of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. It was more interesting than I would have predicted. There’s a lot to say …
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Family obligations, The Wire Watch and general laziness have prevented me from doing a full-scale Friday Night Lights Watch, but it’s good to have it back, and in form. On the negative side: a twister? Also, while the unraveling of Riggins’ redemption in Coach Taylor’s eyes, the way it happened–the mistaken-identity twist as he …
