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In the end, only one Gosselin could end up with custody of the post-breakup Jon & Kate Plus 8, and it turns out that Mom won. TLC announced today that Kate Plus 8 will debut on Nov. 2, with newly-liberated play-ah Jon in a continuing but “less regular role.” Translation: having Jon show up with another “new mommy” every week would be too …
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AMC’s remake of The Prisoner is debuting on Nov. 15! Yay! It’ll air two hours a night for three nights straight! Yay! It’ll be preceded by a marathon of The Matrix movies! Ya— um… [confused muttering].
My yay!-ing, by the way, is based strictly on anticipation; I haven’t seen any of the remake yet. But if you still need to revisit …
Let’s get back again to Don Argott’s The Art of the Steal, the new documentary about the sad fate of the Barnes collection.
The beginning of the end for the Barnes can probably be dated to the arrival of Richard H. Glanton, a big personality with big ambitions for the Barnes and himself, not necessarily in that order.
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
Okay, back to Don Argott’s new documentary, The Art of the Steal, which has its New York premiere Tuesday night at the New York Film festival.
By the 1920s Barnes was spending much of his time writing about art. His theories, with their almost exclusive focus on formal relations within and among pictures, weren’t taken very seriously …
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I’ll be up front about this: I’m behind on Dexter, whose fourth season started last night on Showtime. I’m planning to catch up, but I had too many other obligations, and too little goodwill left from a disappointing third season, to make it a priority. Those of you who caught the debut, feel free to discuss it here.
I did, however, …
The surprise hit of the Toronto Film Festival a few weeks ago was The Art of the Steal, a documentary about the still-in-progress hijacking of the phenomenal Barnes Foundation art collection, one of the greatest in the world, by the powers-that-be in Philadelphia. The film has its New York debut Tuesday night at a sold out …
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The first few minutes of Trauma, the paramedic drama that debuts tonight on NBC, seems determined to show where the network put some of that money it’s saving with The Jay Leno Show. Depicting a crisis/rescue/disaster on a rooftop high above San Francisco, it starts with a guy getting fried …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, recline on your fainting couch and watch last night’s Mad Men.
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New Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate made a splash in her debut on last night’s SNL premiere, letting slip the above F-bomb in a skit with Kristen Wiig. Could it have been a publicity stunt? One never knows, though her facial reaction suggests it was an old-fashioned …
This just in – Jehuda Reinharz, who has been president of Brandeis University since 1994, has announced his intention to resign. In an e-mail today to the Brandeis community he said he plans to remain in the job through the current academic year and as late as June 30, 2011, depending on how long it takes to choose a successor. …
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Words I would not have guessed last spring that I would be typing today: Dollhouse returns for a second season tonight. The series made an amazing mid-season creative course correction during its first run and surprised everyone by getting renewed (on low ratings but the strength of an intense fan base and healthy DVR replay). So I …
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Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea begins its nightly run (twelve hours, in six parts) on PBS Sunday night. Last week, I wrote a column about how its premise—that Big Government saved wilderness and national treasures that private enterprise would have destroyed—is a lot more politically pointed (in the year of the …
