For half a century, time travel has been one of the cinema’s most reliable plot devices. TIME picks the best of the bunch.
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Modern Family Watch: "I Feel Like I Ate the Sun!"
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It’s probably too late to be posting on Wednesday’s Modern Family, but I thought I should briefly put up something (1) to say, for the record, that “Starry Night” was one of my favorite episodes yet and (2) to quote Cameron’s line (see clip above), which is still making me laugh out loud two …
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Report: White House Crashers to Be Punished With National TV Fame
The Daily Beast is reporting that America’s favorite couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, having finagled their way into a White House party and the national headlines last fall, will in fact be regular stars on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C., the reality show they were auditioning for when they crashed the news.
Isn’t Bravo …
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Thursday Comedies Watch: Whuck?
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Dead Tree Alert: Lunch Is a Battlefield
My column in this week’s print TIME looks at Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, the Madonna-and-whore complex of American food TV, and the reasons food has become another front in the culture war—and a surrogate, among other things, for the health-care debate. (Glenn Beck, of course, makes an appearance in the column, touting a …
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Robert Culp, 1930-2010
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Actor Robert Culp died yesterday after a fall at age 79. I’ll leave it to critics of the Baby Boomer era to eulogize his work on the supercool ’60s espionage show I Spy. My more personal memory of him is for his work as Agent Bill Maxwell on the ’70s superhero comedy-drama The …
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R.I.P., At the Movies
At the Movies, the TV show that brought Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel and their thumbs to the masses, is being canceled. The series will finish its run in August. It’s a sad moment, at least if you’re a critic, or simply someone whose love for the movies was inspired by Siskel and Ebert and their passions for the medium. As much heat as the …
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TLC Minus Jon, Plus Sarah Palin
It’s official: Sarah Palin is getting her own reality show, ahem, “documentary series.” The trade press reports from earlier this week were right, sort of: Palin did sign with Discovery Networks, but her show will air not on Discovery Channel (home of Deadliest Catch) but on TLC (home of Kate Gosselin).
Which seems like a tacit …
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Idol Watch: All Over But the Singing?
Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination after the jump:
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Hell No, You Can't: Obama and Boehner Duet at Last
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Why didn’t I make this video? Why didn’t you? This viral video, based on Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” from the 2008 primaries, is so inevitable it should have been obvious. And I’m not sure anyone needs to write, video-edit, or otherwise create anything further about American politics in …
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Lostwatch: See You in Hell
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, roast yourself a nice pig, pour yourself a bottle of wine (I suggest a fruity grenache with the pork), cork the bottle extremely tightly and watch last night’s Lost.
American Idol: The Final Eleven
Legendary music veteran Miley Cyrus imparted her decades of showbiz wisdom to the young whippersnappers of tonight as they chose #1 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 (a list that’s three times as old as Cyrus is). Who benefited from her mentoring? We’ll find out… after the break! (Or, actually, by clicking on the pictures below.)
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Wrongest Name in Cable News?
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OK, so cable-news pundits bluster, shoot from the hip and end up hilariously, spectacularly wrong occasionally. Or more than occasionally. It’s pretty much the job description. And Chris Matthews—well, God love him, he’s very good at his job.
But this clip is really something. It’s …