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A federal appeals court yesterday struck down FCC regulations over “fleeting expletives” on the airwaves, ruling that the commission’s definition of “indecency” was so vague as to create an unconstitutional “chilling effect” on speech. But the ruling is subject to appeal to the Supreme Court, meaning that the victory for the networks may …
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Those of you who, like me, don’t have an Xbox can now watch season 4 of Felicia Day’s online comedy, The Guild, at MSN, where its first …
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Of course not. Would he like to? Evidently. Will he? Not if American Idol‘s producers have any sense.
But Joy Behar knows that asking the question will get people to watch her talk show, and I know that embedding the video will get people to visit this post from search engines, and so here it …
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I feel like I should just get a time-saving review template to use over the summer. “Hey, everybody! A basic-cable network is premiering a light, escapist procedural about cops and/or spies with personality quirks and gritty, but not alienatingly challenging, cases! It’s not Mad Men, but what the hey, who wants to think about stuff in …
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People have mocked me for liking The Hills—behind my back! You think I can’t hear you but I totally hear you!—but I’m OK with that. Really. To be honest, I’ve drifted away from the show—which airs …
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Another loss for Cleveland: Harvey Pekar, the storyteller and jazz critic whose rants and tales of daily life were realized in the American Splendor series of comic books, has died at age 70. TV fans of a certain age—and maybe even under a certain age—will remember him as one of …
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As I mentioned before, I’m not enough of a True Blood cultist to do a weekly review, but one thing I have enjoyed about season 3 so far is the show’s depiction of werewolves and werewolf culture: namely, how it’s depicted this breed of shape-shifter as lustily and unapologetically …
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I missed most of yesterday’s World Cup final yesterday, being, of all places, at a New York Liberty game. (Mrs. Tuned In’s choir sang the national anthem, which no doubt spurred the Liberty’s come-from-behind 57-54 win over the Chicago Sky.) But I was simultaneously following the match on Twitter, where some of the most entertaining …
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Spoilers for Friday Night Lights coming up:
This is a good place to talk about choice. Not choice as in “a woman’s right to choose,” though the subject of this episode of Friday Night Lights was abortion, but choice as in a storyteller’s ability to choose how best to make believable decisions in a narrative, and characters’ ability …
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Use social media! But don’t get too social. Engage your audience! But don’t piss anyone off. Be authentic! But conceal any beliefs regarding anything important you cover. Know your subject! But draw no informed conclusions from anything you learn. Don’t take sides! But be sure to …
TIME rounds up the classic texts that have monopolized school reading lists for decades.
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Belated thoughts on Wednesday’s Top Chef DC coming up:
The “Room Service” elimination challenge combined two (to my memory) new situations on Top Chef, one a good idea and one not so great. I don’t recall a challenge involving preparing a hotel meal before (thought there may have been an early …
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Caught in the crossfire over whether The Daily Show has a problem with women or not has been Olivia Munn, the show’s newest correspondent, who has been cited by some as an example not of the show’s inclusiveness but of sexism. To wit: she was hired, the implication goes, not because she’s funny but because she’s hot. She answers some of …
