I’m on vacation next week, visiting family. During that time I’ll only post once, on Valentine’s Day, to re-run my long post from last year on the color red. When you’ve got your own blog, you can do things like that.
Meanwhile I want to recommend Christopher Knight’s review in yesterday’s L.A. Times of BCAM, the new Broad …
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The biggest show of the 2007-08 TV season will be tomorrow night, and you will not be able to watch it. That’s when the WGA holds a massive hootenanny at the Shrine Auditorium in LA (and a somewhat smaller hootenanny in New York City) for members to talk (or yell) over the proposed deal the guild negotiating committee has been working …
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My Time magazine piece about Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle and how they relate to the Hillary-era zeitgeist–i.e., what are the standards, and double standards, society sets for powerful women–is up here.
In the piece I briefly mentioned how women like Martha Stewart …
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I went into the first episode of Survivor: Micronesia–Fans Vs. Favorites expecting to hate it. First: considering that Survivor has now been on the air for over seven years, isn’t every edition pretty much a “fan” edition? It’s pretty rare that the show now finds a …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, watch last night’s Lost. And tell my sister I love her.
It was painful to write last week’s Lostwatch because I had to keep myself from mentioning any details about this week’s Lost, which I liked even better. This is an issue with a lot of …
The news that the Getty has purchased a complete master set of Irving Penn’s series The Small Trades — 252 portraits of working people that he made in the 1950s — reminded me of one of the pictures in the show of Penn portraits of artists and writers that’s currently at the …
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Gung Hey Fat Choy! Salesgenie.com is celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year by pulling its Super Bowl ad, featuring pandas speaking in exaggerated Chinese accents, because it turns out that people get offended by that sort of thing.
Exaggerated Indian accents, though? Not so much. The company has no plans to retract its other newly-debuted …
I see that the first American site specific commission for the British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster is Toxic Schizophrenia/Hyper Version, the largest yet variation on their signature heart and dagger motif. It recently went up in front of the new Museum of …
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Eight months later, it still makes me a little sad to see a headline like this and then realize I won’t get to see how David Chase will work it in to The Sopranos.
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Tonight, NBC debuts Lipstick Jungle, its entrant in TV’s burgeoning story-about-rich-and- powerful-women-in-Manhattan-from-someone -associated-with-Sex-and-the-City genre. ABC’s Cashmere Mafia came from SATC producer Darren Star; Lipstick was created by Candace Bushnell, who …
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Writing about election coverage, I have disclosed, probably to the point of tediousness, that I voted for Obama. I think it’s a good thing for you to know, but I really do it for me. It’s important to me that I have enough perspective to critique campaign coverage whether it works for my candidate or against him. Having you know more …
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It’s Fashion Week in New York, so I would be remisss if I did not post a Project Runway discussion thread this week. As usual, I haven’t watched yet, so I’m sticking my fingers in my ears, but do your worst.
Tomorrow, incidentally, the finalists hold their runway show in The Tent at Bryant Park. Guess who has an invite?
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I know, I know: too damn many election posts lately! What can I say? Writer’s strike + big news night + I stayed up until 2 a.m. and need to rationalize the investment of time = you’re stuck with it.
Between Super Sunday and Super Tuesday, however, I forgot to link to my brief plug in this week’s print TIME for the complete-series set …
