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As I mentioned in my post this morning, there was a reason that Rep. Michele Bachmann was looking off at an odd angle during her Tea Party State of the Union response: she was speaking to the camera that was streaming her talk on the Tea Party Express website, rather than the media-pool camera. Oddly, though, the website itself as of …
No one ever said that movies—even those about historical events—were obligated to reflect fact. Still, some have taken a few too many liberties.
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Lights Out, FX’s strong new boxing drama that I gave a positive review, has been on the ropes in the ratings,* and I have no time today to review last night’s episode at length. I am part of the problem. But I want to see if Tuned Inlanders have stuck with the series up to this episode, which was the one that sold me on the drama and …
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When CNN announced that it would air not only the official GOP response to the State of the Union address but a live Tea Party response, given by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), I was skeptical. On the one hand, it gave the GOP two responses—a courtesy not afforded to opposition party factions, …
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Over at TIME’s Healthland blog (Swampland, Techland, Healthland—when will Tuned In acquire land?), my colleague John Cloud has been recapping House, M.D. From his writeup of last night’s “Carrot or Stick” (spoiler alert, kind of):
They start Driscoll on an antibiotic (doxycycline), but soon he has another symptom: his leg muscles feel
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That’s right: MTV has announced that the fourth season of its hit Jersey Shore will send Snooki and the gang to The Boot, as part of the series’ ongoing effort to promote positive images of Italian American culture. I am hoping that it will look something like this (see above). …
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The MTV drama Skins is shedding advertisers faster than its cast shed shirts in their publicity photos. The past week, when controversy over the show’s sex-and-drugs content was compounded by purported fears that the show could constitute child pornography, saw a half dozen sponsors leave the show, including Schick, Taco Bell, GM, …
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“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done a story like this on The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Oprah Winfrey told her audience today. But this time the story Winfrey was relating—a successful, middle-aged woman discovering that she has had a secret half-sister since she was nine years old—was about herself.
And it was, well, like …
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Much has been written in recent years about the death of the professional movie critic, replaced by the ubiquitous movie blogger – bloggers who sometimes seem to prefer snark over substance, who occasionally seem willing to offer glowing buzz for the most mediocre of …
You write a book, you get to the end, and then it’s like—meh, I’ll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title.
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Big Love follow:
The second episode of Big Love‘s final season continued to deal with the fallout of Bill’s decision to take the family public. And as he alluded to in his Bible reading with his son at the beginning of the episode, openness turns out to be no cure-all: it doesn’t bring instant …
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I can sometimes take the pulse of the Universal TV Watching Mind by noticing when there’s a sudden spike on traffic for a year-old post on my blog. Judging by this morning’s logs, a bunch of people are coming to Tuned In by Googling the terms “James Brown,” “eTrade Baby” and “shame” …
