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Today in L.A. News
A few bits of aftermath from the decision by Eli Broad not to donate his collection to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
LACMA Director Michael Govan spoke to the Los Angeles Times yesterday. You can’t blame him for putting the best face on things, but I find myself agreeing with a couple of points made today by blogger Tyler …
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Have You Stopped Beating Your Koran?
Felt guilty enough to go back and watch the Democratic Nevada debate on TiVo. Don’t all thank me at once.
Fortunately, in the interim, my new colleague Michael Scherer has gone ahead and critiqued MSNBC’s handling of the debate. The first half-hour of the debate, in which Tim Russert and Brian Williams focused on meta-issues like …
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And Speaking of the Strike…
…any AMPTP bigshots who don’t believe a strike can do any long-term damage to the TV business might want to note Erich Van Dussen’s comment from an earlier thread:
For some reason the primary debates bore me this year, and I’ve never watched AI: I prefer getting my entertainment from talentless performers who are already famous, thank
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Strike Watch: If You Liked the Globes…
…you’ll looooooove the strike-era Oscars, which, Variety reports this morning, are going on whether you like it or not. Plans are in the works for an “alternative” ceremony, for which details are vague but might involve “industry heavyweights penning their own speeches and presenting the awards.” Ooooh! Can’t wait to hear that Jeffrey …
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The Morning After: Same Old Song
Idol auditions in Philadelphia. / FOX
The devil won. Strike or no strike, though, even I don’t have much stamina for the American Idol audition rounds week in and week out, so I probably won’t rejoin Idol in earnest until the Hollywood round. After seven seasons, we may have wiped the country clean of Idols, but we haven’t run out of …