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I interviewed George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, in Santa Fe last month. Part one of the interview posted here Friday. Below, GRRM talks about what he loves (and hates) about fantasy and historical fiction, how he sought to combine the two in his books and how he …
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Before you read this post, climb up the wall, adjust your satellite dish and watch the pilot episode of Game of Thrones:
Because I hit on a lot of the thematic issues in my big review/preview, and because I need to knock out this Game of Thrones post faster than usual, I’m going to try something a little different in this post and …
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I’m going to be away next week (the Tuned In Jrs. are on spring break). But I will continue to haunt you through posts on this blog, run through the kindly ministrations of Robo-James. (Who, in honor of Passover, is now Golem-James.) Continuing this week’s theme, there will be more Game of Thrones-related material: a Game of Thrones …
Still an old-fashioned whodunit in which people get scared over the phone and killed in person
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If you didn’t watch it on DirecTV last year and earlier this year, or if you didn’t buy the already-available DVD set earlier this month, you can start watching the fifth and final season of Friday Night Lights via good-old-fashioned rabbit-ears broadcast TV tonight.
I absolutely loved the third season of FNL (its first on DirecTV) …
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If you ever eat a meal with George R. R. Martin, have what he’s having. Martin’s fantasy novels, the source material for HBO’s new Game of Thrones (see a scene from the pilot above), are known for moral ambiguity, complexity and cruelly brilliant plot twists. But they also have fantastic descriptions of food—all that honeyed fowl, …
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Spoilers for last night’s The Office:
Sigh. I feel obligated, since we’re in the final stretch to Steve Carell’s departure from The Office in two weeks, to say something about “Training Day.” But God, I found Will Ferrell’s guest spot disappointing. My problem was not so much with Ferrell himself as with Deangelo Vickers, whose name …
With the release of the fourth Scream film comes a fresh cast of hopeful horror survivors. TIME brings you the rules to follow if you want to make it out alive.
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Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation:
A note to anyone planning to throw me a surprise party: I can pretty much be fooled about anything. Yeah, I remembered the kerfuffle several weeks back when NBC mistakenly ran a promo referencing an April-Andy wedding, then said it should have …
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HBO’s fantastic (in more than one sense of the word) Game of Thrones debuts Sunday, and my review is in the new issue of TIME. It includes a few quotes from a long interview I did last month with author George R. R. Martin; I’m going to post the full (well, edited) interview in installments, starting this afternoon.
The series, as you …
A high-flying romp that’s sunny enough to keep kids enchanted and their parents engrossed
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Over 80 years of cumultive soap-opera story will be ending on ABC, as the network has announced it will cancel both All My Children and One Life to Live, as of September 2011 and January 2012 respectively. The network announced the axings by way of announcing the shows’ replacements, a food show called The Chew and a self-improvement …
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Paul Reiser is returning to NBC tonight, and with that I hereby pledge to make this the last time I will use the NBC “Make it 1997 again by science or magic” reference from 30 Rock. Frankly, though, the time period that The Paul Reiser Show made me think of first was not the mid-’90s glory days of hit sitcoms like Mad About You. It …
