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So how many people have stuck with Generation Kill past the first episode? A full to-do list prevents me from doing a full Watch treatment this week, but if the miniseries seems to have a following here, I’ll take a crack at the later episodes.
One big media phenomenon of the Iraq War that I was intrigued to …
New York was borderline unbearable this weekend. The humidity was tropical and the heat was Egyptian. So it was a good time to think about environmental degradation and to drift over to the New Museum to see “After Nature”, a little fever dream of a show that brings together works by 35 artists …
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“There were a lot of speculative pieces that got spun out of control,” Couric told critics at the CBS News TCA session in Los Angeles. “When you work for an organization, there are always ongoing discussions.”
Ongoing discussions about whether you’re fired or not? There are? Should I be worried I haven’t had any lately?
Couric added, …
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The third and final act of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog drops this weekend. (The show stays up free through the weekend; thereafter it’s available for download through iTunes.) Those of you who are interested probably already know that. For those of you who aren’t interested—yet—here’s a taste:
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In the news today, more media coverage of media coverage that has not actually happened yet: namely, the jockeying among TV news anchors and star reporters to follow Barack Obama on his upcoming trip overseas. (The precise details, including times and some locations, are apparently being kept under wraps for security reasons.) Some media …
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This Tuesday, I deep-sixed the TIME column I had already written to write a new one about the politics of humor(lessness). If you’re a regular, much of it incorporates some of what I already posted on the New Yorker Obama cover hoo-hah earlier this week. (I know, I know; but the shamans whom we pay to analyze such things tell us there’s …
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* Steve McPherson kills the small bit of his soul that might have made him ashamed of airing Wipeout.
* Tim Goodman reveals how TV critics stay in such legendarily excellent physical shape.
* The Lost guys are pretty much not going to say anything about anything. What do you think this is, Comic Con? But Daniel Dae Kim will be …
It’s summer and the weather is generally ok, so I’ve been going outside a lot at lunch for fresh air, sunshine and the chance to check out big, enigmatic chunks of public art. In London last week I finally got a look at Model for a Hotel 2007, a sculpture by the German …
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I realized after posting my Emmy reactions this morning that I mentioned not a word about Lost being nominated for best drama nor Michael Emerson for best supporting actor. So I decided to treat the omission as not a bug but a feature and to milk an entirely new post out of it. Let’s take a week away from the mythology and …
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The news lately has been full of former Hillary Clinton workers moving on to new employment, and you can now add one more to the list. Reports are that Amy Poehler, who at one point seemed to have a lock on impersonating the president through at least January 2013, will leave Saturday Night Live to star in NBC’s spinoff of …
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* Katie Holmes, a.k.a. Mrs. Tom Cruise, will guest on Eli Stone next season. The dramedy—from Greg Berlanti, with whom she worked on Dawson’s Creek—is about a lawyer/prophet who is troubled by visions that make him seem like some kind of religious lunatic. Gee, where would she ever have gotten any experience [remainder of joke …
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The 2008 Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and I watched live, an experience mainly worthwhile for the experience of watching them flash a BREAKING NEWS title card on E!, as if it were a presidential assassination. I’m working on a print TIME review right now and I may have more to post later, but click on the jump for some …
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Spoilers for last night’s season five opener of Project Runway coming up after the jump:
