I was intrigued by a position the Associated Press took yesterday when it filed new court papers in its countersuit against Shepard Fairey over his unauthorized use of an AP photo as the basis for his Obama “Hope” poster. Basically, they said: “You lie — some more”.
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Game of Thrones: Your Nonexistent HBO Series Update
Game of Thrones—the HBO pilot based on George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels—is getting ready to shoot next week in Northern Ireland and has cemented its cast. If you’re not familiar with the show, you have a good excuse, since it does not yet exist and there’s still no guarantee that it ever will.
Still, as …
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The Morning After: Jump the Shark Tank
You would think that watching entrepreneurs beg for start-up cash for outlandish businesses in the middle of a recession would be a recipe for entertainment, but I never managed to get into ABC’s Shark Tank this fall. (I am, however, still holding out hope for CBS’s corporate-reality show, Undercover Boss, later this season.) Still I …
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SOA Watch: Cage Match
Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:
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Oprah to Interview Palin
I suppose I could just put up a post with “Oprah” and “Palin” in the headline and let the Google searches do the rest, but here’s a little more detail. The Mighty O will have The Mighty P on her show Nov. 16, in connection with the release of Palin’s book, Going Rogue.
You will recall that there was a controversy, or rather …
Richard Rogers vs. Prince Charles: Again
The British architect recently won the Stirling Prize, Britain’s highest architectural honor. But was the prize meant as a way for U.K. modern architects to give the finger to Rogers’ prime antagonist — and theirs — Prince Charles? Sort of like an Obama Peace Prize that’s a shot at George Bush? Rogers won’t hear of it, but it’s …
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The Morning After: Just a Flesh Wound
IFC last night aired the second episode of Almost the Truth: The Lawyer’s Cut, its six-hour documentary on Monty Python. As a longtime Python fan—and one who usually has little patience for showbiz documentaries—I found the doc’s personal stories and cultural context fascinating, but I wonder if the whole haul is a little much for …
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HIMYM Watch: True Patriot Love
Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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Fedora, Cigarettes Not Included
You would think that a series set in 1963 would be a series with limited potential for product tie-ins, but you would be wrong. Introducing the Brooks Brothers exclusive Limited Edition Mad Men Suit.
Well, I now know who I’m going as for Halloween!
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Dept. of Bad Ideas: Government News
New York Times media columnist David Carr has an intriguing piece today about a wonky but potentially influential Columbia Journalism School report on how to how to save newspapers—or, more specifically, the newsgathering that those papers do—as it becomes more apparent that their advertising-based business model is threatened.
A …
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Mad Men Watch: Dirty Laundry
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, spray on your Aqua Net and watch last night’s Mad Men.
Shepard Fairey: Hopeless
Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the ubiquitous Obama “Hope” poster, admitted over the weekend that he had lied about which photo he used as the basis for the image. Ouch.
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The Morning After: Cement Shoes
As I mentioned yesterday, my visit to the Monty Python reunion means I have a greater Thursday-TV backlog than usual. (I did catch the weak, overly wacky “Mafia” episode of The Office, which doesn’t require much comment.) So use this space to discuss any of last night’s shows. In the meantime, I’m thinking of taking the advice of one …