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Perfunctory hat tip to my print TIME column this week, which refines my earlier post on why journalists should disclose who they vote for. Advantages over the original post: it’s shorter, and someone made a nice picture for it. Disadvantage: unless you read it online, it can give you a paper cut.
Those of you who aren’t thorughly bored …
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On last night’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann weighed in–in no uncertain terms—on Ferrarogate, castigating Hillary Clinton and her campaign for not repudiating Geraldine Ferraro’s claim that Barack Obama was “lucky” to be a black candidate in this primary [Update: The embedded MSNBC video was, annoyingly, causing the Tuned In homepage to …
Today and Friday I’ll be on the road. I’ve been invited to join a symposium that’s part of a new series called the Glass House Conversations. These are two-day events sponsored by the Philip Johnson Glass House n New Canaan, Conn., which is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. …
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Spoilerage for last night’s American Idol elimination coming up–after the break!
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Project Runway gets most of the love, but I actually preferred 2007’s edition of Top Chef, which returned last night. This season? I have no idea; it usually takes a couple episodes to get a sense of how interesting the cast is. But the debut episode did not disappoint, with the …
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Hulu.com, the corporate YouTube competitor from NBC and Fox, opened to the public today; Anita Hamilton has time.com’s review. The gist, for those of you unfamiliar with it: the site archives hundreds of movies and TV episodes; you can watch them for free, with brief ads; and you can share and embed entire episodes or clips online.
I’ve …
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From the I’m-surprised-they-didn’t-do-this-earlier department:
TiVo to Provide YouTube Videos Directly to the Television
ALVISO, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TiVo Inc.(Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced an agreement with YouTube(TM) that
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One more point I meant to bring up in this morning’s Idol Watch. Typically, Idol’s ratings slide off a bit in the early weeks of the finals, until the finale gets close. Even though I like the show (I’m serious!), I can see why. For at least the first month and a half, there may be a surprise ejection, but basically you’re going through …
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My reviews of Beatles Night on American Idol are posted. The night wasn’t the travesty I might have expected—I imagined one Whitney-ized Lennon/McCartney ballad after another—but the highlights and lowlights didn’t come where I expected them, either. Chikezie tore the roof off the new set (there was …
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The CW’s Beauty and the Geek had its fifth-season premiere last night, and like many reality shows whose concepts have survived past their sell-by date, it’s decided to shake things up with a twist. The twist, in this case, pretty much undoes the whole …
Decades ago the J. Paul Getty Museum, with its bulging endowment, was expected to bulldoze its way into the art market and buy every good thing that came up for sale. If only. All these years later the Getty’s paintings collection is still a patchwork affair. But on Tuesday the museum announced that it’s purchased what looks like a …
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Before Chris Harrison became host of The Bachelor, he was the host of HGTV’s Designers’ Challenge. But the road between dating shows and cable home shows runs both ways. TLC announced that Bob “Bachelor Bob” Guiney will host the new Date My House, in which prospective buyers follow a “speed dating” search of houses with a lengthier …
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This project had not been on my radar screen at all, but HBO has announced a new drama, which I’d describe as a detective show with a pretty big difference. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, based on a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, is a BBC coproduction about a female-run detective agency in Botswana. A two-hour pilot, …
