Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother after the jump:
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Palin on Oprah: Can You See the Real Me?
If you didn’t like Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, she has a message for you: it was really the McCain campaign PR staff that you didn’t like. The real Sarah, you like just fine! Sitting down with Oprah Winfrey, Palin took up much of her interview blaming her performance in 2008 on–besides the media, of course–her campaign’s …
Mussorgsky’s “Pictures At An Exhibition” — Plus More Pictures
Last Friday, at the damp tail end of a very wet week in New York, I made it over to Alice Tully Hall to catch a collaboration between the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Berlin-based, South African artist Robin Rhode. Rhode is best known for short films and videos that owe an (acknowledged) debt to the low-tech animations …
Top 10 Political Memoirs
While George W. Bush's new memoir Decision Points doesn't hit bookshelves until Nov. 9, it has already managed to make waves. TIME takes a look at other memorable political autobiographies
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Palin Was Against SNL Before She Was For It
As we get ready for Sarah Palin’s interview with Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m. here in NYC), Oprah.com has posted some outtakes from the interviews. It includes her thoughts on Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live’s treatment of her; the McCain campaign, she says, resisted letting her go on SNL, for fear the appearance would be “atrocious.” But …
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Curb Watch: Seinfeld 2.0
Quick spoilers for Curb Your Enthusiasm after the jump:
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The Morning After: Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other
I said my piece on the AMC “reimagining” of The Prisoner last week, so I don’t plan on doing any nightly blow-by-blow. But if you stuck around to watch it, let us know what you thought—and whether you saw the original. (Not that that should matter—the new version, I think, should be judged on whether it stands or falls on its …
The Bauhaus at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a big new show devoted to the Bauhaus, the great 20th-century forcing ground of modernism in architecture and design. So I reviewed it in the new issue of Time.
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Your Weekend Homework: When Did the 2000s Happen?
Among the year-end business I’m working on right now is a list of the top TV shows of the last decade. In some ways it’s actually easier than my year-end top-ten list, because it’s really the creme de la creme—if a show doesn’t immediately come to mind, it probably shouldn’t be on the list.
But there’s one big dilemma: what to do with …
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Should Lou Dobbs Run for President?
Well, “should” rarely enters into the decision, I realize. But among the theories propounded by Dobbs’ resignation from CNN—and prompted by his vague reference to seeking “options” in the public sphere—is that he’s considering running for office. Salon’s Joe Conason thinks he may be thinking of running for The Big One.
So when I say …
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"It Wasn't a Good Interview": Palin on Oprah on Couric
The great Sarah Palin Rollout has arrived. The former V.P. candidate’s book Going Rogue comes out on Tuesday, she appears on the Oprah Winfrey show on Monday, and CBS News is teasing the interview with a clip that just happens to implicitly flatter its own anchor:
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The Morning After: Flash News
Acting on the advice of a commenter here a while ago, I am committing to the practice of saving myself time and simply watching the last five minutes of any given FlashForward, at least until and if the series shows some improvement. Thus it’s not really fair for me to review the show per se, but I did—looking on the bright side—at …
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NBC Sitcoms Watch: Four on the Floor
As much as we all like to beat on NBC lately, its Thursday comedy lineup is—whatever weekly ups and downs it has—the most consistently solid sitcom block it’s had in years, if not ever, without a single Stark Raving Mad-like filler show in the bunch. That leaves a so-much-to-cover-so-little-time problem, though, so this week, I’m …