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I just finished a taping for Headline News’ Glenn Beck show, in which I talked for what seemed like three and a half seconds about American Idol and the writers’ strike. (To viewers, I’m sure it will seem like an eternity.) The American health-care system’s failures never came up.
Before the taping I had the pleasure of sitting in the …
Let’s continue that conversation I started here two days ago with the soon-to-retire chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
LACAYO: Over the past twenty-five or so years we’ve seen incredible retrospectives, at MoMA and elsewhere, devoted to just about all the big names of the 20th century. Picasso, …
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This year Super Sunday falls just two days before Super Tuesday. (Feb. 3 4 will be known as Mediocre Monday.) To deal with the insuperable superness of it all, Fox, broadcaster of this year’s Super Bowl, plans to meld its political and its sports coverage, adding a morning Fox News segment to the top of its pregame coverage. The …
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There’s been a lot of speculation about the possible long-term side effects of a writers’ strike: that the disruption might change the development process or move the networks away from debuting most of their new shows all at once in the fall. Here’s another: will the strike burn viewers out on reality shows?
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An unusual breed has been spotted on the vast prairies of CBS this week: the Endangered North American Miniseries. They used to be a majestic and revered creature, bred big and muscular, feted with big budgets and celebrated regularly …
