I’ve taken an interest lately in The Photographs of Homer Page, the catalogue of a show that just opened at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. It amounts to a rediscovery, almost a disinterment, of a photographer who was prominent enough in the late 1940s to get featured treatment a few times by the Museum of Modern Art. But …
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Office and 30 Rock Watch: Who's the Boss?
Two-for-one spoilers for The Office and 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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The Morning After: Clooney Tunes
I have to be honest about this: I simply can’t fake interest in the Important Television Milestone that is the passing of ER. I was simply never much of a fan. It debuted in 1994, before I was a TV critic, and while I watched it early on to see what all the fuss was about, in the mid-’90s I was much more interested in The X-Files, My …
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Stewart/Cramer: Who's This Song About?
So did Stewart get Cramer? Did he get him good? Did he stick it to him? As I posted yesterday, there’s a big temptation to frame last night’s head-to-head between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer as a battle between two guys. But as Stewart told Cramer, to his credit, “This song isn’t about you.” (Indeed, Cramer’s thin-skinned personal …
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Dead Tree Alert: Kings Review
A proclamation! We have reviewed Kings! Heralds—sound the royal fanfare!
Is it better for a TV show to be consistent or surprising? Is it worse for it to be ridiculous or boring? NBC’s unorthodox new drama Kings (Sunday, 8 p.m. E.T.) comes down solidly on the latter side of those questions. Some viewers will say it’s
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