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Fess Parker, star of numerous Disney movies (Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier)—and TV’s Daniel Boone—has died at age 85. I’m a generation too young to have many firsthand memories of him (for some reason, I was never a fan of the old Disney movies as a kid), so most of my …
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Going outside its current stable of reporters and anchors, ABC is hiring longtime CNN international reporter Christiane Amanpour to host the Sunday-morning This Week interview show vacated by George Stephanopoulos. TV Newser has the details; among them, that she’ll start in August, until which White House correspondent Jake Tapper (who’s …
Can’t make it to Texas to see one of the 1,700 bands performing at the 2010 SXSW festival? You can console yourself with this list of the 10 most famous — and infamous — moments in music-festival history.
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I realize that I have not really written about Human Target in this space yet. I don’t have a good excuse, but I have a reason: boredom. That is, the show hovers for me in some limbo between good and bad, neither good enough that I want to note it nor interestingly bad in any way that bears …
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Yesterday, I got the ABC logline and press release for next week’s Richard Alpert-centric episode of Lost. (SPOILER ALERT: Richard “faces a difficult choice.” I really hope that didn’t blow the whole series for you.)
What interested me most was the title, “Ab Aeterno.” Which made me think: Oh, yeah—Latin. What was up with the …
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Alex Chilton, a great American songwriter, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack in New Orleans, at age 59. First with The Box Tops but most importantly with the Memphis band Big Star, Chilton all but invented American power-pop, even if most people will know him more by the …
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol final-twelve elimination last night:
