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“We’re not really leaving,” Jay Leno told the studio audience on his last Tonight Show. And he was right. So how do you throw yourself a goodbye when you’re not going anywhere? TV has a history of lugubrious farewells for longtime personalities, and while Jay Leno may not have stuck around as long as Johnny Carson, at 17 years, he’s …
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For obvious reasons, I usually pass up the chance to promote special guest appearances by people flogging their new movies, albums or other projects. But this is just too weird. Will Ferrell is promoting the upcoming Land of the Lost movie by doing an upcoming Very Special Episode of… Man vs. Wild: …
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Tonight, Jay Leno hosts his last Tonight Show. Last night, Prince and Billy Crystal saluted Jay, while he remembered some of his classic comedy bits. Question: does he really want to remind us of The Dancing Itos? In fact, watching the retrospective, I couldn’t help but think that a lot of that comedy would look awfully corny in the …
The Great Recession may be slowly, slowly lifting — we hope — but most museums still find themselves in a serious pinch, and some of them in something worse. Las Vegas Art Museum: R.I.P.
If anything the hard times have been even harder in the performing arts, the theaters, orchestras, dance companies and so on that depend more …
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Last night, ABC aired the finals of the Scripps national spelling bee, in which—spoiler alert—13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar won the title by spelling “Laodicean,” meaning, so Webster tells me, “lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics.” As someone with the surname “Poniewozik,” I can only guess that a young life of spelling …
Never fear — Jay Leno isn’t going anywhere. But as he leaves The Tonight Show to start in a new, earlier slot, here’s a look back at 10 of the most memorable moments from his show.
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Is iCarly a good role model for girls? Is JONAS a weapon of male oppression? Will Handy Manny ever learn that the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house?
These questions and more are addressed by the organization TrueChild, which has posted a set of report cards analyzing how the two genders are represented in TV …
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If you’re like me, you stopped caring about the results of American Idol about 24 hours or so after they were announced. But a fair amount of fans are abuzz over a report that AT&T let Kris Allen fans at a viewing party use free demo phones, thus possibly upping his vote total.
Did AT&T give Allen the Idol title? Probably not. For one …
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Though I was disappointed with The Goode Family from the episodes I’d previewed, there was enough in it that I liked that I set up a season pass for it anyway. I ended up watching the pilot again last night, and I have to say: it still made me laugh. All the flaws were still there: the too-obvious P.C. jokes, the heavyhanded …
Pixar’s Toy Story 3 hits theaters June 18, the latest project from the studio to arrive stocked with unusual vocal talent. TIME surveys Pixar’s 11 feature films, and the peculiar voices that have helped these unforgettable …
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Brief spoilers for Sunday’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
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It’s the first Wednesday after Memorial Day, and that means time to revive Lost Discussion Group for the summer. There seemed to be enough questions raised by this season’s Jacob-centric finale to sustain LDG for a season, at least, and I’ll kick it off with a simple one:
Who?
That is, who is Jacob referring to when he says, “They’re …
When I was in Chicago to check out the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute I sat down for a talk with Renzo Piano, who designed it — and half the other new museums in the U.S., or at least it feels that way.
LACAYO: Renzo, it seems like every few months you premiere a new project somewhere.
PIANO: If you compare what we do …
