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I caught the rerun this evening of The Colbert Report’s interview with PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk. The feisty but sporting animal-rights activist closed out the interview talking about the general evilness and eco-hostility of eating meat, and imagining how she’d like to, after her death, have her flesh barbecued and have everyone come …
I got a chance recently to preview five documentaries about photographers that are turning up this week on the Sundance Channel. Tonight’s is Helmut Newton: My Life, about the world’s canniest dirty old man. It combines archival imagery with video interviews with Newton in later life — he died four years ago — …
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I never expected to be quoting TMZ in connection with the presidential campaign, but the showbiz-nooz site reports that not only did Hillary Clinton appear after SNL’s second consecutive the-media-hates-Hillary skit, her campaign also approved the script of the Amy Poehler sketch. Says TMZ, “Sources tell TMZ the skit — featuring Amy …
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One of Tuned In’s small pleasures of the 2007-08 season, The CW’s deliciously mean Gossip Girl, got an early lease on life for next season today, along with five other series. From the suits:
The network’s most popular series, AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL will return with mega-star Tyra Banks for cycles 11 and 12. Returning dramas
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If you haven’t yet gotten into AMC’s Breaking Bad, you don’t have much time left; the strike-foreshortened season is down to one episode remaining. And if you haven’t yet gotten into Breaking Bad, it’s hard to blame you; between the drugs, the gore and the protagonist dying of cancer, it’s not exactly a rollicking evening of …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, go see Big Walter. Not big nose Big Walter, skinny Big Walter. Oh, and watch last night’s episode of The Wire.
Like a lot of critics, I’ve already seen the finale of The Wire, so I want to be careful what I say about anything that could seem to …
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Over the weekend, there were two new volleys in the surrogate-video war betwen Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: respectively, a new SNL cold-open skit making Hillary out as the victim of the media, and another celebrity-packed music video dedicateed to Obama from the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am. As is so often the case with sequels, both …
Nicholas Penny, the recently appointed director of the National Gallery in London, said last week that he wants his museum to move away from blockbuster exhibitions that bring in crowds, but at the cost of going back again and again to names we already know. He wants to focus on shows that bring to light neglected figures like the …
