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As you all know, today is the most important holiday of the year. I’m knocking off early for trick-or-treating / candy-handing-out duty, then to count the number of Sarah Palin imitators at the Park Slope Halloween parade this evening.
I leave you with this holiday treat. Unfortunately, Hulu inexplicably does not offer Freaks and Geeks …
His museum debut, in 1976, was a doozy. The New York Times called it “the most hated show of the year.” Now he’s got old master status. And he should. In the 60s, Eggleston was one of that small number of photographers — Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus — who reinvented the whole idea of what a picture was supposed …
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This is sad news. (H/t Sepinwall.) Not entirely unexpected news—I remember interviewing Stephen Root, on the set of ABC’s 9/11 miniseries, way back when King of the Hill was in the middle of one of its previous death scares. And maybe it’s more or less time. You could argue that the show properly should have ended with …
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…but, um, it just announced the pickup of a new reality-competition fashion show:
NEW YORK – October 30, 2008 – Today, Bravo announced the pick-up of its newest fashion design creative competition series “The Fashion Show” (working title), in which the ultimate winner will be chosen by viewers and will have their designs sold by a
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The press releases announcing various networks’ election night coverage have been rolling in fast and furious, but for those of you looking for a little different perspective, here’s the lineup from BBC America (which has been doing a good job this election with their beefed-up U.S. news coverage):
Household names from the worlds of
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Spoilers for this week’s Office coming up after the jump…
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I’m a secular Jew (Mom’s side) from a half-Catholic family (Dad’s side), so except for weddings and funerals, neither side of me usually makes it into a temple or church on Saturday or Sunday.
What I have instead is Thursday night. I still watch Survivor regularly, good seasons or bad. The current one, Gabon, has a fairly decent cast, …
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30 Rock returned last night, pulled by the publicity snow machine that was Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin. Of the two episodes I’ve seen, I liked next week’s—with guest star Oprah Winfrey—better, but last night’s, which returned to the storyline of Liz Lemon trying to adopt a baby, was welcome too. It’s been so long …
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According to the Political Ticker blog, John McCain is going to appear on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, where he’s been a favorite guest over the years. I don’t know how effective appearances like this can be at this point in the race—or any other point, for that matter—but when you’ve got an opponent who’s spending his …
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In this week’s TIME, I take one last look back at the coverage of the 2008 election; in particular, the metabolism of an election cycle in which new media were ever more dominant, and how the old media huffed and puffed trying to keep pace on that treadmill:
If you’re like me–and I hope for your sake that you’re not–you have been
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I swung down to Memphis, Tenn. last week to spend some time with the great American photographer William Eggleston. A big traveling retrospective of his work opens on Nov. 7 at the Whitney Museum in New York. As usual I’ll split this conversation into several posts.
LACAYO: You were born in 1939. When your father went off to the …
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During my run this morning, this forgotten song came on my iPod:
We’ve got nothing better to do
Than watch TV and have a couple of brews
Double simultaneous nostalgia: for both early 1980s hardcore and early 1980s TV titles. (That’s Incredible! Dallas!) And it made me think: since TV is such a big part of our lives, why aren’t there …
