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That’s right: MTV has announced that the fourth season of its hit Jersey Shore will send Snooki and the gang to The Boot, as part of the series’ ongoing effort to promote positive images of Italian American culture. I am hoping that it will look something like this (see above). …
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The MTV drama Skins is shedding advertisers faster than its cast shed shirts in their publicity photos. The past week, when controversy over the show’s sex-and-drugs content was compounded by purported fears that the show could constitute child pornography, saw a half dozen sponsors leave the show, including Schick, Taco Bell, GM, …
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“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done a story like this on The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Oprah Winfrey told her audience today. But this time the story Winfrey was relating—a successful, middle-aged woman discovering that she has had a secret half-sister since she was nine years old—was about herself.
And it was, well, like …
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Much has been written in recent years about the death of the professional movie critic, replaced by the ubiquitous movie blogger – bloggers who sometimes seem to prefer snark over substance, who occasionally seem willing to offer glowing buzz for the most mediocre of …
You write a book, you get to the end, and then it’s like—meh, I’ll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title.
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Big Love follow:
The second episode of Big Love‘s final season continued to deal with the fallout of Bill’s decision to take the family public. And as he alluded to in his Bible reading with his son at the beginning of the episode, openness turns out to be no cure-all: it doesn’t bring instant …
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I can sometimes take the pulse of the Universal TV Watching Mind by noticing when there’s a sudden spike on traffic for a year-old post on my blog. Judging by this morning’s logs, a bunch of people are coming to Tuned In by Googling the terms “James Brown,” “eTrade Baby” and “shame” …
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Keith Olbermann may be out of a job now, but there’s a possibility that he—or a fictional character bearing his likeness—may end up getting the Jedediah Josiah Bartlet, or Mark Zuckerberg, treatment on HBO. Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and likely soon-to-be Oscar nominee for writing The Social Network, has told the BBC that …
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Spoilers for Fringe’s first Friday night episode, “The Firefly,” coming up:
As Fringe grew stronger and more confident through 2010 and increasingly began to draw in the details of the alternate universe, one issue would occasionally dig at me: just where does The Observer—or rather The Observers—fit into all of this? The …
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Talk about a Special Comment: Keith Olbermann announced on air that tonight’s edition of Countdown on MSNBC will be his last—specifically, that he was “told” it would be his last show—a move that was quickly confirmed by the network …
A desperate band of fugitives flee Siberia on foot in Peter Weir’s compelling tale of survival against the odds, but their journey meanders towards the end
Natalie Portman has made a career out of playing composed, high-achieving heroines. Unwinding enough to pull off this relaxed, raunchy romantic comedy may be her toughest challenge yet
