Maybe you were watching that other debate, I don’t know. Your time is your own. As for me, I spent last evening at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City watching J.K. Rowling and Ann Patchett talk about …
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Debate Watch: The Fact-Check Heard Round the World
We don’t yet have pop-up fact-checks at Presidential debates. But for one crucial moment, we did have Candy Crowley.
Broadway Revivals: Why I Hate Hamlet — and Cyrano Too
I am, luckily, a theater reviewer who doesn’t have to review everything I see. I try to write about the shows that stand out in some way — both good and bad. Some shows are just too routine to bother with. Others don’t have …
Dancing with the Stars Results Watch: Everyone Can Stop Complaining Now
The DWTS results are in and one contestant finally got her due
Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions
After his first Oscar nomination in 2011, Hawkes skipped the fortune and used his new fame to make a low budget movie about a polio survivor who hires a sex surrogate to deflower him. TIME talks to the actor about his method, …
Four Beauties, Three Beasts and a Hulk: Where the New CW Series Goes Wrong
The CW’s new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ may steal from Whedon, cop shows and Marvel Comics, but it somehow manages to miss the entire point of the original fairy tale it’s based on
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TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Asylum
Set in a 1960s sanitarium for the criminally insane, AHS’s second season begins as a more focused, if equally frenetic, screamfest.
Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars
The star boldly portrays a flawed hero in Robert Zemeckis’s potent drama
Which Pop Song Do You Want Played At Your Funeral?
If you pick which music you listen to every day of your life, why stop there? NME reported yesterday that fewer than a third of British funerals feature traditional hymns as a soundtrack to the event, according to Co-operative …
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Debate Preview: TV Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Except When It Totally Does
It turns out the debates are among those few exceptions every year—the Oscars, the Super Bowl, the Olympics—when TV awakens as a big medium, now amplified and hyped by social media.
Dancing with the Stars Watch: Paula Abdul Guest Star Edition
Paula Abdul helps put Gilles Marini and Shawn Johnson in First Place on Week 4 of Dancing with the Stars
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to Stay on NBC, At Least As Golden Globes Hosts
NBC is keeping its two favorite funny women on the air—at least for one night, as co-hosts of the Golden Globes next January. To which I can only say: what took so long?
Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard on Striking Out on His Own
Benjamin Gibbard will release his highly anticipated solo debut, Former Lives, on Oct. 16th. As the frontman for Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service, Gibbard has earned himself a reputation for a certain melancholic …