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So a while back I was noodling on the idea of just what had gone on on the Island in between the Oceanic 6’s rescue and Jeremy Bentham’s return to the mainland. More specifically, I was wondering how much could have happened in the space of—what was it, three years?—and how the writers could compress all that story in however much …
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This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an automatically generated thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh-James.
When I interviewed him in London last fall, Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, told me off the record that he didn’t want to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York because he much preferred to stay on where he was. Over the past few months I’ve been told the same thing, always …
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One of the tasks I had to shuffle off my desk before vacation was a mercifully brief review of PBS’s first—and very possibly last—primetime animated series, Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns. It was one of the few times that my stony critic’s heart actually felt remorse about having to call it as I saw it, because I’ve been a fan …
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This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an automatically generated thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh-James.
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While I was getting ready for vacation at the end of last week, the LA Times’ Gold Derby published a list of the 10 Emmy finalists in the drama and comedy category, including the episodes submitted for each show:
TOP 10 COMEDY SERIES FINALISTS
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (“The Bat Mitzvah”)
“Entourage” (“The Day F***ers”)
“Family Guy”
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Thanks to a new show that just opened at the Whitney Museum in New York, there’s a bit of Buckminster Fuller revival going on. I wrote about it in this week’s Time.
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This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an automatically generated thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh-James.
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See you later, suckers It is with a heavy heart that I announce that I will be away on vacation next week. Robo-James (second from left) will preside over a severe, emotionless interregnum at Tuned In until I return on July 7. So be sure to check in during the week! No, seriously, be sure to check in. Robo-James …
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This one came over the transom while I was writing yesterday. Bravo is “heading South”—in creative ambition as well as geographically!—with a third edition of The Real Housewives of Name of Your City That Has Dumb Rich People Here:
Expanding on the success of the original hit series, “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” and the
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As the SAG contract expiration approaches on Monday, the New York Times looks at the reasons there might be a strike—and why, because of the threat of a strike, there will be a de facto “strike” for many movies anyway:
Labor unrest continues to dominate the landscape in Hollywood, and the possibility of a strike by actors has large
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I’ve been busy lately finishing up a couple pieces that will run while I’m away on vacation (yes, those are Robo-James’ servo motors you hear warming up in the background), each of which involve many many hours of TV screening. So I haven’t had time to watch much more of ABC’s docu-series Hopkins—about the staff at the famous …
They opened the faucets yesterday for The New York City Waterfalls, the industrial strength art project by Olafur Eliasson at four locations along the city’s eastern waterfront. Each of them consists of a steel scaffolding between 90 and 120 …
