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Decaptivating
Yinka Shonibare is the London-based artist of Nigerian descent best known for those headless mannequins dressed in 18th and 19th century costumes made from very neo-colonial cloth. “Neo-colonial” is this instance means that what we tend to think of as “traditional” African textiles turn out to be manufactured by the Dutch, who borrowed …
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Vacation Robo-Poll: Best Game Show
I rarely write about game shows here at Tuned In, and yet it’s possible that I watched more of them in my childhood than any other kind of TV. Risk-taking, odds-taking, the frequency of consonants in English-language words, the efficacy and morality of bidding exactly one dollar over the previous bidder—I learned all of these and more …
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The Morning After: Robo-Edition
This is Robo-James. While my programmer rests his weak flesh-husk on vacation, you are invited to use this space to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions.
There’s the Rub
It’s often the case that when a museum director sees a big expansion to completion he or she steps down within a year or so after the project is completed. That’s what Mimi Gates did at the Seattle Art Museum and Marc Wilson at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City. But things have happened a little differently at the Cleveland Museum of …
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Vacation Robo-Poll: Best Character Actor
Last time I went on vacation, I asked for your thoughts as I filled out a Variety poll on the best TV shows, actors and actresses of the last decade. That seemed to go over well, so let’s try something similar this week. This time, though, I’m going to ask your favorites in some less-traditional categories. Starting with: who’s your …
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The Morning After: Robo-Edition
This is Robo-James. While my programmer rests his weak flesh-husk on vacation, you are invited to use this space to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions.
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Programming Note
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Dead Tree Alert: Hung Review
The next print issue of TIME, not yet posted online, includes my Short List blurb-review of HBO’s Hung (about a well-endowed high-school teacher forced by debt to become a gigolo, debuting Sunday), which is by definition short and glib and—because I am not made of stone—full of cheap double-entendres. The conclusion (I’m …
Michael Jackson: 1958-2009
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Virtuality's Bold, Lonely Mission
Fox’s two-hour space drama Virtuality, airing tonight, is a show about a seemingly doomed mission: an ambitious journey intended to last several years that is in serious danger of being cut disastrously short not long after it launched.
It’s also a TV show about an interstellar space mission. But more about that in a minute.
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Breaking MJ's Death: Web, TV Divide Labor
You know you’ve beaten people on a story when your direct competition does stories on your having beaten them. The Los Angeles Times has a piece today headlined “TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson’s death first”—which is all true, but by posting news of Jackson’s death at 5:20 p.m. E.T., the Hollywood-news site …
Top 10 Michael Jackson Songs
From enlisting Eddie Van Halen for a guitar solo to borrowing the refrain “Mama-se, mama-sa, mama-coo-sa” from a Cameroonian
saxophonist, Michael Jackson’s very best songs drew from influences far and wide.