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Don Draper and I turn out to have something in common. In a recent episode of Mad Men, Don takes fellow divorcé Lane Pryce out on a bender that includes a trip to a Japanese monster movie. Which took me back: not to 1964, but to the late ’70s / early ’80s or thereabouts, when the …
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In the issue of TIME on newsstands right now, I have a brief Short List item on a treasure of ’80s cult TV just released on DVD: Max Headroom, the Complete Series. Sitcoms can be good at critiquing TV (30 Rock, Larry Sanders, e.g.) but dramas have a mixed record at this. (I still have …
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I’m going to be on vacation the next couple of weeks, resting my weary eyes and working with a team of the world’s finest sports physicians on a specially designed strength-and-flexibility-building regimen to recondition my overworked remote-control thumb. While I’m gone, Robo-James has been loaded with not one but two theme weeks of …
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Technically speaking, this is really TV Next Monday material, but I’ll be out next week, so a reminder: Laura Linney stars in Showtime’s cancer dramedy The Big C, debuting Aug. 16. You can read my impressions of the first three episodes here. There are some broad supporting characters and more than an echo of earlier Showtime dark …
From a three-way gunfight to a limbless sword duel, TIME takes a look at some of the greatest movie battles ever.
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As a father of two, I can certify that there is every reason to be terrified of babies. They deny you sleep. They bleed you into bankruptcy. They spout effluvia in every direction imaginable. They are explosive, people.
So I suppose it was inevitable that the U.S. would eventually experience a Summer of Baby Fear. Politicians advocating …
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My column in the print TIME this week expands on this earlier post, about how and why myths, conspiracy theories and misinformation persist despite—or partly because of?—their debunking in the mainstream media. [The column’s not currently online; I’ll link here if that changes.] Thanks here go to commenter archstanton68, who pointed …
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David Wolper, a prolific film and TV producer who brought miniseries The Thorn Birds and most notably Roots to TV, died Tuesday at age 82. (In addition to his TV projects, he produced movies including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and L.A. Confidential.) In the above clip, he …
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I don’t recall if the upcoming season 5 of Friday Night Lights was already officially the season’s last, or all-but-officially (I’d been going on the assumption, but last I spoke with DirecTV, they wouldn’t say it flat-out), but in any case it’s official now. The fifth and final season of FNL debuts on the satellite network Oct. 27, with …
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AMC yesterday announced plans for its fifth series, a murder mystery starring Mireille Enos (who gave a fabulous duel performance as twins on Big Love). What’s it called? That’s a mystery too!
Originally called The Killing, the series is based on the much-praised Danish miniseries Forbrydelsen. As with any adaption of an overseas …
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TBS has a new ad for Conan O’Brien‘s late-night show, debuting in November. I’m not sure if it’s reflective of the sensibility of the new show or just the sensibility of the TBS promotions department, but it’s Monty Pythonesque. More in the Terry Gilliam aesthetic than in actually …
