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The temporary absence of my least-favorite character made the Monday edition of In Treatment more enjoyable for me this week. And with Laura briefly out of the picture, we got to open another door on Paul Weston’s home life. His encounters with teen daughter Rosie and college-aged son Ian–each addressing in a different way his wife’s …
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In New York City, people play the New York Post front-page game: the day after some major scandal, you guess what the banner headline on the front page of the Post will be. (After the Hugh Grant hooker case, e.g., I guessed “HOW COULD HUGH?” though I think they went with “BLUE HUGH” instead.)
There were a lot of possibilities, but you …
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Showtime must be pleased it happened to be promoting this particular show right about now.
Let’s finish up that conversation with Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Monin, the organizers of this year’s Whitney Biennial.
LACAYO: Okay, what about the “social performance” activities over at the Park Avenue Armory, things like the dance marathon, the sleepover, the tequila bar. When did you begin to think this was an essential …
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The other day at Tuned In we poked some fun at conservative talker Tucker Carlson, and as you know, that’s all it takes to destroy a TV show. MSNBC had made official that Tucker will be canceled after this week, so that David Gregory’s eyebrows can have their long-overdue showdown with Keith Olbermann’s.
You may want to grab a lamp or …
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Julianna Margulies returns to series TV tonight in Fox’s Canterbury’s Law (is it just me or does that title sound Canadian?), a legal series that you might call Damages times Rescue Me minus the good writing. From my review-blurb in this week’s Time:
The season of the Flawed Woman
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Showtime announced today that The L Word will end after its sixth season. I gave the show a few chances its first couple of seasons, but I never thought its writing and characters lived up to its ambitions (or maybe I just thought its ambitions were greater than they actually were). But I’ve known a few (gay and straight) fanatics of the …
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The media has apparently stopped picking on Hillary Clinton enough for Saturday Night Live’s liking, because this weekend’s cold-open skit opted instead for a parody of Hillary’s 3 A.M. ad, showing a new President Obama flummoxed by a nuclear crisis and the White House furnace:
Where the previous two debate skits were solidly …
Men of the Docks, George Bellows, 1912/MAIER MUSEUM
A few months ago, writing about the prolonged battled over whether Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. could sell some of the work from its Maier Museum, I said that the whole thing had turned into one of those movie serial cliffhangers, with regular new chapters in which one side or …
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Expanding further on the Poniewozik public-radio empire, I was a guest this weekend on NPR’s On the Media, talking about the cultural importance of Dungeons & Dragons and holding forth on my own junior-high-era dorkosity:
A correction, by the way. During the interview, Bob Garfield asked me to recall a character I played from my D&D …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, crack open a tub of cottage cheese for lunch and watch the last episode ever of The Wire.
What is closure, anyway? People complained that The Sopranos didn’t give it, but its abrupt ending gave closure better than it could have by telling …
Admit it, you’ve been longing to read just one more piece about the new Cai Guo-Qiang show. And wouldn’t you know it, I just happen to have one in the new issue of Time.
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I just did an appearance on KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney, about my Hillary-and-SNL column and the larger subject of pop culture and the election. I think KCRW will have a streaming link eventually KCRW has a streaming link of the audio, and I’m pretty sure To the Point is on teh podcasts, teh iTunes, and so on. Also, there were …
