Last night, NBC completed its burnoff of fall crime drama Prime Suspect. I didn’t watch, partly because, with the Giants competing, last night was one of the few nights of the year I actually watch a sportsball game with …
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Music Monday: Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur
Kathleen Edwards has a penchant for bittersweet ballads. An earnest singer-songwriter, her voice is sweet and her her song subjects — from budding love to break-ups to “what am I doing with my life”-type explorations — …
At India’s Jaipur Literary Festival, Oprah and the Tiger Mom, But No Salman Rushdie
Ten Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: Jan. 23-29
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EST.)
1. Oscar Nominations Announced
Tuesday morning at 8:30 am, Winter’s Bone and Hunger Games star Jennifer …
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Top 10 Memorable Movie-Character Names
Sometimes, all it takes is a great name to make a character completely unforgettable.
Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action
If you haven’t heard, World War I is really hot right now. In a full-page editorial in the Sunday New York Times, British novelist William Boyd (who also wrote and directed a movie called The Trench, so we can consider him an …
Underworld Overachieves, Red Tails Flies High and Haywire Gets KO’d
As Kate Beckinsale vamps her way to the top of the weekend charts, Haywire‘s Mixed Martial Arts pinup Gina gets pinned by the Tuskegee Airmen
A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012
From her potent R&B singles as a teenager to the immortal ballad “At Last,” and for another half-century, this pop-blues diva endured a life more wrenching than any of her songs
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Colbert and Cain Do the Charleston: Which One’s the Comedian?
I’ve never been to Charleston, S.C., but I’m pretty sure that, for this afternoon at least, Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston was located at the intersection of Reality and Satire. There it was that Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain, unlikely ballotfellows, held a funny, serious and seriously funny rally to promote Colbert’s bid …
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See All of TIME’s Best of Lists on the Populist iPad App
In mid-October, when we re-launched this entertainment site, we also struck out into the wild world of tablet apps.
TIME Populist, available for the iPad (download here), took all of the Top 10, 15, 25 and 100 lists that we …
A Photo History of Etta James, Dead At 73
The cross-genre singer of hits like “At Last” has died of complications from leukemia.
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The Morning After: Archer and the Bandit
In one of my favorite Archer episodes ever, Sterling and Lana have an adventure in a Florida Louisiana swamp, which is mainly exciting to Archer for its resonances with the Burt Reynolds classic Gator. “I’ve been waiting my …
Dickens Turns 200 This Year. We Will Blog His Ten Best Books
For the magazine this week, I wrote a piece about the legacy of Charles Dickens. He was a fascinating character on many fronts (Lev Grossman thought so too, after reading a couple of recent biographies), but what interests me, on …