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We’re heading into a TV midseason full of debuts: Game of Thrones, The Borgias, The Killing and Camelot on cable, various replacements including Paul Reiser’s sitcom on the broadcast networks—not to mention specials like Human Planet on Discovery next month. But we still have some business to get out of the way.
Last night, we saw …
Director Zack Snyder’s limp stab at girl-power fantasia wusses out on divine delirium
The writers at TIME are not as old as you think. Here are the kids’ and young-adult books we cherished in our younger years.
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As a director, Todd Haynes (Safe, I’m Not There) sometimes seems less like a filmmaker than an enthusiast: a collector, say, of a certain brand of out-of-production figurine (he cast his early Karen Carpenter biopic, Superstar, with Barbie dolls) or a passionate fan of a highly particular out-of-fashion design genre. His 2002 film Far …
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Strawberry milkshakes for everyone! Fringe, whose ratings have not exactly been keeping pace with its creative growth, was officially picked up for a full fourth season yesterday. I was modestly optimistic the show would be saved—though it’s ratings have fallen off, arguably they’ve fallen less than you would have guessed when it …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol coming up:
File under “Sentences I never thought I’d type”: Last night’s American Idol results episode was really worth watching. In perhaps the highest compliment I can pay to a results show, my ratio of parts-fast-forwarded to parts-actually-watched approached 1:1 last night, possibly an …
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I’m back in town, but as I’m catching up and working through several days’ Tivo backlog, I don’t expect to be doing a lot of morning-after reviewing this morning. I did, however, catch last night’s episode of The Office, which was unspectacular as an episode overall but did build to a delightful moment as (spoiler ahead)…
The second installment of the surprise hit Wimpy Kid series is warm, wry and better — or at least nicer — than the book
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This week’s American Idol review is brought to you by Claire Suddath, who is filling in for James Poniewozik.
This week was Motown week on American Idol, and the final 11 contestants chose from thousands of classic tunes, including over 100 number one hits that the Detroit label churned out during its heyday. Steven Tyler seemed …
The screen icon and the famed photographer, known from his candid shots of the stars, crossed paths many times in their careers
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Word has come out that legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died. I will leave it to my colleagues on the film side to properly eulogize her life and career, but I wanted to take a second to remember one of her appearances on TV. Her part consisted of just one word, but her …
William Shatner — actor, comedian, pitchman, recording artist and author — turns 80 today. From Captain Kirk to an interpretive performance of “Common People,” Shatner has had an accomplished and eccentric life. TIME takes a …
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I’m in New Mexico for a couple of days: Santa Fe today to interview author George R. R. Martin about the adaptation of his novels into HBO’s Game of Thrones; tomorrow in Albuquerque for a set visit to the fourth season of Breaking Bad. So I was thwarted by the Mountain Time zone and missed last night’s live airing of How I Met Your …
