Quick spoilers for Survivor coming up after the jump:
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Ain’t It Cool News
Radio stations with what you could call high culture programing are an ever more endangered species. Things have gotten so bad recently that it’s rumored that the New York Times Company may sell WQXR-FM, New York’s only full time classical music station. But sometimes there’s good news, green shoots of growth as Ben Bernanke might call …
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T-Pain to Rock You Like a Cop, Live-Action-Style
Adult Swim has hit upon the inspired, or perhaps insane, idea of producing a live-action episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I bring you this news mostly for the excuse to run a picture of Frylock—who will be played by rapper T-Pain—atop this blog.
The episode, which airs May 31, features Jon Benjamin as Master Shake and an …
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Disney Gets Hulu Stake, Hulu Gets ABC
Disney announced today that it’s buying a 30% stake in the Fox and NBC online-video venture Hulu, and, more important to you, that means that shows from Disney-owned ABC (Lost, Ugly Betty, et al.) will be available on Hulu. Which leaves CBS as the big-network outsider, putting its own content out on the relatively underwhelming TV.com …
The Time 100: The How and Why
This morning my distinguished publication unveiled the annual Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people. I have something to do with the selection of the artists and architects who make the list, so I thought I’d explain some of the thinking that led to this year’s choices.
The first thing to be said is that in a time of …
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The TIME 100, The Tuned In Seven or Eight
If my employer is going to go through the trouble of creating an enormous promotional franchise like the TIME 100, I’ll be damned if I’m not going to get at least a blog post out of it.
The list is up. I should say up front that I had little to do with choosing it, other than throwing in my picks for the massive initial list of …
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Idol Watch: Daughtry'd?
Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination after the jump:
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Lostwatch: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, make sure you’ve bought a card and made dinner reservations for Mother’s Day. Then watch last night’s Lost.
The End of the World As We Know It
There was a piece in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week in which Rem Koolhaas was asked if he thought the recession-related slowdown in new building construction was something more — something like “the ending of an architectural era.”
Here’s what Koolhaas replied:
“I don’t even know about the word ‘downturn’. It’s seems …
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Happy Lost Day! What Did Daniel Faraday Know, and When Did He Know It?
While everyone may be abuzz about Obama’s first 100 days today, they pale in significance next to the first 100 episodes of Lost. Number 100, airing tonight—and you may want to pad your recordings in case that press conference runs long—is reputedly Daniel Faraday-centric, presumably picking up from the point where he returned to the …
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Cable News' First 100 Days
Today, of course, news organizations like this one are in overkill mode dissecting President Obama’s first 100 days in office. The broadcast and news networks will all be covering tonight’s Presidential press conference (except Fox network, which will mark Tim Roth’s first 100 days in Lie to Me). While we’re at it, though, we might ask: …
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The Morning After: That Which Was Not American Idol
I’ll be honest: I watched last night’s Fringe while simultaneously finishing up my American Idol reviews. If there are any references to the Pattern in my assessment of Allison Iraheta, I apologize. To the 33% of my attention I was focusing on it, however, it didn’t seem to need a separate Fringe Watch, so feel free to dissect it here. …
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Judging American Idol: The Final 5
It was Songs of the Rat Pack Era tonight on American Idol, so that meant… Jamie Foxx as mentor? Because he played Ray Charles in a movie? Why not Don Cheadle — at least he played Sammy Davis Jr.! Why didn’t they get Joaquin Phoenix for country night? Foxx is at least amusing, delivering some Tracy Jordan-esque lines like “he’s not …