Victorious Youth, Greek, 300-100 B.C. — Photo: Getty Museum
Things are getting serious here. Francesco Rutelli, the Italian culture minister who has been on the warpath over looted antiquities, abruptly issued an ultimatum yesterday to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Return everything we demand by the end of the month or Italy will impose …
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He’s no Paris Hilton, but Michael Moore provided one of the more dramatic exchanges on Larry King Live in a while, having an on-air throwdown with CNN’s own medical correspondent (and TIME contributor) Dr. Sanjay Gupta last night. (Here’s the transcript, link courtesy of Romenesko; the video’s online at CNN.)
The confrontation followed …
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Photo: Michael Courtney/The CW
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots may be rewritten, recast and reshot before airing, and end up much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s …
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Is it wrong to be waiting anxiously for the premiere of The Singing Bee? Yes. Yes, it is. But I am a weak man.
I also plan to catch Don’t Forget the Lyrics on Fox the next night for compare-and-contrast purposes. The latter show is apparently another in the proud Fox history of ripping off competitors’ reality concepts and rushing them …
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In part because I want to hear what you think, in part to get Chaddogg off my back, a few thoughts on Sunday’s HBO triple shot:
* JFC. This episode largely ignored the peripheral characters, like the motel Greek chorus, who have been among my favorite things about this series. But in so doing it crystallized one of my essential problems …
I wrote a quick tribute yesterday to the late, great MoMA photo curator John Szarkowski. Today I got a comment worth highlighting from an important American photographer, Tod Papageorge, whose thoughts are of special interest because he’s one of the artists who works in the complex idiom that Szarkowski championed and clarified for the …
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The 2007 summer TV critics’ press tour–nearly three weeks when the TV networks bring out their stars for group interviews with the Television Critics Association–begins this week in LA. I’ll be watching it from the vantage point of sunny NYC. There are professional reasons (largely involving getting TIME to pony up for a three-week …
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HBO photo: Lacey Terrell
Well, you can say this much for Bill: When he orders the pie, he really orders the pie. Seeing him chat up the waitress in the diner–and then confess his feelings to Don Embry–was one of those bracing moments where you realize that his lifestyle is still alien, as comfortable as you may have gotten with this …
Today comes news of the death of John Szarkowski, MoMA’s great former chief curator of photography, a man whose influence over the field was immense. In his 29 years at MoMA, Szarkowski put his stamp decisively on the art and taste of his time simply by pointing to a few crucial photographers and saying attention must be paid. It was …
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I don’t know if people who live outside New York City can understand the phenomenon of nostalgia for the city’s sleazy days of the 1970s. Maybe it’s a combination of high real-estate prices in the newly-cleaned up “America’s safest large city,” hipster irony and old-fashioned NYC contrariness, but it’s not uncommon to find people …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots may be rewritten, recast and reshot before airing, and end up much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s get on with…
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With my visit to the Philip Johnson Glass House still fresh in my mind, thought this would be a good time to check in on that other iconic house. Back Monday to talk about it.
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Because we had to put the magazine to bed on the actual Fourth of July, TIME’s Independence Day holiday is today. Meaning that today you, like the colonists, have won your freedom–from having to read any of my blathering blog posts today. God bless America!
Have a good weekend. And wish America a belated happy birthday with the …
