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Fox has not sent out advance screeners of The Moment of Truth. This has not stopped critics from panning it in advance on the basis of its premise: contestants are hooked up to a lie detector and asked 21 intensely personal and embarrassing …
Since it opened last November I’ve been paying visits every so often to the Damien Hirst installation that occupies much of the glass enclosed lobby of Lever House. When it was completed in …
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I traded e-mails about this with Tim Goodman a while back, and he beat me to blogging on the subject, but I’m not too proud to be late…
So the strike is going to end. Maybe sooner, maybe later, but it will end. Your shows will return. But will you still care?
Granted, as a TV critic I’m more jaded than …
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I almost don’t want to jinx it by writing about it, but there are a couple signs this morning that there really could be progress toward ending the strike. First, the Writers’ Guild announced that it would not picket the Grammy Awards, a goodwill gesture that the already ratings-troubled awards show sorely needed.
At the same time, the …
I caught up with David Hockney recently by phone from Los Angeles, where he was supervising the re-installation of his 1987 sets for the LA Opera production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Hockney still keeps a home in L.A., but spends most of his time lately in Bridlington, …
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So did anyone partake of the rich slab of Bravo cheese that was The Millionaire Matchmaker? You can admit it! I won’t tell anyone!
One thing that was wrong with this show from the get-go was the title: Is she a millionaire? Does she match up millionaires? …
