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It’s May, and that means time to let a bunch of season finales accumulate unwatched on my TiVo. To the pile last night we added the two-hour finale of Grey’s Anatomy and the Lohan-ized episode of Ugly Betty. I once enjoyed Ugly Betty a lot, but I sort of drifted away from it between the …
It’s been almost two years since police recovered The Scream and Madonna, the Edvard Munchs that were stolen in 2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo. We’ve known for a while that both paintings were damaged during the theft and after. Tomorrow they go on display again at the museum, and the …
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Happy Not-Lost Day! With one week until the two-hour finale, this seems like a good time to kick around your speculations about what the last episode of season 4 will bring.
Take it in whatever direction you want, but here’s a kickoff question. How the Oceanic Six get off the Island is obviously a big question hanging out there. But …
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So yesterday I saw the new Sex and the City movie. I was hesitant to blog much about it, partly because I didn’t want to pre-empt my review in the print Time, partly because I was still figuring out how much information I could blab without spoiling the movie. New Line has been particularly sensitive about press spoilers, perhaps because …
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Yeah, I know, it’s a lame joke, but if professional comic Mike Myers can use it, so can I. Spoilers about which David is the 2008 American Idol coming up… after the break!
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In my last Time Tuned In column I wrote about the upcoming HBO movie Recount, about the disputed Florida vote in 2000, and its potential to stir up passions in the Democratic primary, where certain campaigns are charging disenfranchisement in Florida:
Even if the primary is settled by the time Recount airs (or by the time you read
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SPOILER ALERT: Brief spoilers about the Reaper season finale follow.
With so many shows disrupted and marred by the aftereffects of the writers’ strike, it’s good to see one series that actually considerably improved at the end of this season. I had pretty much given up on Reaper by the time the strike hit, but the show finally started …
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This morning, Time Warner made official that it would be spinning off Time Warner Cable as a separate company. I don’t pretend to know whether the step is a positive or a negative for either company. But I do know one benefit for me: Now when I complain about how much I hate my cable provider, I no longer need to feel guilty that I am …
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My final American Idol reviews of 2008 (dear God in Heaven, I actually wrote 157 of them) are up at time.com. And now we sit and wait to find out which David won.
Is it possible that both of them did?
On Tuesday I finally got a look inside one of the most contested buildings of the last half century. I’ve written a few times about the threat of demolition faced by Paul Rudolph houses, schools and offices around the country. At Yale, where …
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Your challenges are simple:
Who wins American Idol tonight? What song would you pick for David Archuleta to sing? Which for David Cook?
I’m going with Cook, on the theory that he will be able to successfully emo-ify whatever big sploogey anthem is this year’s Idol coronation song, and thus outshine Archuleta’s pure but straightforward …
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Over at Slate, Timothy Noah wonders: will appearing in high-definition on TV be unkind to John McCain?
Last year, when McCain’s candidacy appeared to be in serious trouble, you heard a lot about how awful he looked. He’d gotten old, his face was scarred from melanoma surgery; no wonder his presidential run was headed south. Then McCain
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Between season-finale triage—I wanted to get How I Met Your Mother out of the way first—and a morning deadline, I haven’t yet watched the Gossip Girl finale. Those of you who have and are dying to discuss, feel free to drop your …
