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I’m traveling today and didn’t have time to do a longer review in advance of Vito, HBO’s documentary about the film scholar and gay rights activist Vito Russo, but I highly recommend it to anyone interest in pop culture, in civil …
Tuned InTelevision
The Television Critics Association summer press tour in LA began over the weekend, two weeks of presentations, panel interviews, screenings and schmoozing with the makers and stars of new and returning fall TV shows.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, fix yourself some hot water with a slice of lemon and watch last night’s Breaking Bad.
“Corporate security.” “What’s that? Guarding the special sauce?”
In a manner of speaking, yes.
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A few thoughts on the massacre in Aurora:
This atrocity would be horrible in any circumstances. What makes it even more heartbreaking is where it happened: opening night of the summer’s biggest movie, one of the few joyous, communal gatherings left in our society. Knowing that everyone in that theater, adults and kids, went in feeling …
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So as you may have heard, legendary comic actor Fred Willard was arrested in an LA porn theater (in related news: there are still porn theaters) for a “lewd act.” Let’s leave aside the fact that arresting people for lewd behavior in porno houses is akin to arresting people for drinking in bars. (Do habitues of prom porn theaters actually …
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Web series have famously become an outlet for creators for whom it affords opportunities and freedom of expression that they can’t get in traditional media—Joss Whedon, Felicia Day, Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl. But now the Web has also attracted the attention of stars who have all the freedom and attention they need. Tom Hanks went …
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In roughly another week, the Olympics begin. And since they will be taking place several hours ahead of any U.S. time zone, will be streamed live online by NBC (at least for anyone with cable or satellite) and will be reported on instantly via Web and social media, they’ll undoubtedly be greeted by the signal cry of the Internet era: …
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Jimmy Kimmel showed up to co-present the Emmy nominations with Scandal’s Kerry Washington this morning in pajamas, joking that he was rousted out of bed for the festivities, held at 5:40 Pacific Time. “This could be just as good …
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I’m really enjoying ABC family’s Bunheads this summer, but to appreciate it, you have to get past the beginning. I don’t mean the pilot or the premise (though more on those in a second); I mean the opening title sequence.
First, there’s the show’s title itself—a slang term for ballet dancers—which is a trifecta of badness. It’s …
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Last week, if you follow pop-culture news, or general-culture news, or probably beekeeping news, you probably heard the controversy over Daniel Tosh and rape jokes. In a way tiny nutshell: a blogger reported going to a Tosh …
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The next time you read a campaign story that includes the phrase “a senior adviser said,” you might want to think of it as “a senior adviser said, after giving a talking to a reporter, getting the quote emailed back, and revising it to what he or she wishes he or she actually said.”
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Brief spoilers for last night’s The Newsroom below:
Because I have already been very critical of The Newsroom, last night’s episode was the last of which I saw before writing my original review, let me kick this post off by …
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The first time we saw Walter White, he was turning fifty, having breakfast with his family, “50” spelled out in veggie bacon. (“This smells like Band-Aids” –Walter Jr.) The first time we see Walter White in Breaking Bad‘s final …
