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I’m in the cheap seats of Radio City Music Hall, where I’ve found a wireless network. So we’re going to go cowboy-style and do an impromptu liveblog, until it wraps up or the John Henry that is my aging Time loaner laptop wears its little battery heart out.
The Shins are playing over the sound system, an apt choice for the network that …
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Wait ’til next year: FNL comes back. / NBC Photo: Bill Records
NBC just zapped us their fall schedule. In: five new dramas and one new sitcom. Out: Studio 60 (not too surprisingly); pretty much everything that debuted midseason (Andy Barker, Raines, Black Donnellys); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (actually, it’s being shipped off to USA …
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In this week’s print Time, I sneak-peek Shrek the Third and look at how that movie franchise–with plenty of help in the book, TV and theater businesses–has made fairy-tale parodies bigger than the original fairy tales themselves:
All this has been a welcome change from generations of hokey fairy tales with stultifying lessons: Be nice
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Greetings, Tuned Inlanders! The discussion here was as lively on my vacation as it is any week that I’m actually around to run the blog. Livelier, actually. In fact, embarrassingly, much livelier. Well, sorry–I’m back now. Funtime’s over.
However.
No Sopranoswatch this morning. On account of I have not yet watched The Sopranos. On …
I’ve got my bottle of water, my carry on bag and my government-issued photo ID. That can only mean one thing. I’m back on the road again, so won’t be blogging again til next Tuesday. Meanwhile, here’s a shamelessly self-serving link to my review of the Boston MFA Hopper show in the new issue of Time.
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We tend to write about big TV here at Tuned In: Lost, American Idol, The Sopranos, etc. Time is a big magazine, after all, and when I write about Travel Channel shows I love, the world does not exactly beat a path to my door.
But I love my little TV too. If I didn’t review shows for a living, I’d spend far more time surfing elitist …
Just a few more quick thoughts on the Louise Nevelson show that just opened at the Jewish Museum in New York.
The lead catalogue essay by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, who organized the show, makes a lot of Nevelson’s practice of redeeming junk she found in the street by incorporating it into her art. But for some reason Rapaport doesn’t …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet watched Lost, secure your gas mask. It’s going to get ugly.
This was not the best episode of Lost to be watching, on vacation, at my mother’s house, without benefit of TiVo. There were plenty of scenes I’d have liked to have paused, freeze-framed and rewound. Anyway, I’ll keep it brief(ish) and let …
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Here at Tuned In headquarters, I have limited access to our traffic statistics, which are overseen by the wizards behind the curtain at time.com. That means I have only a vague sense of what kind of posts people are most interested in reading. The comments-section activity is a vague guide, and sometimes a post will surprise me, such as …
Sky Cathedral Presence, 1951-64 — Collection Walker Art Center Minneapolis
I got an early look last week at the Louise Nevelson retrospective at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. Nevelson was already 60 when she had her breakthrough in the 1959 MoMA show Sixteen Americans that also featured Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and other …
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In my absence this week, the editors of time.com have decided to do something really crazy with out weekly American Idol reviews and have them done by someone who actually knows something about music: Josh Tyrangiel, editor of time.com, Time magazine music critic and, after all the rounds of corporate cost-cutting we’ve done here, …
With Elizabeth II all the rage in the U.S. this week — look, she looks just like Helen Mirren! — the time is right for a quick check of news from the U.K.
And the news is — the four nominees for the Turner Prize were announced yesterday.
But the problem is — I doubt that the Turner carries much weight for most Americans. A …
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As mentioned yesterday, the broadcast networks announce their new fall schedules next week. What’s missing from primetime now that you’d most like to see added? (I’ll start: primetime musicals! I’m hoping CBS picks up its pilot Viva Laughlin, a remake of the British miniseries Viva Blackpool, a musical mystery involving a sleazy casino …
