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In a sign of more-serious plans on his part, or boredom on the part of the political press, I’m not sure which, speculation is building that former Senator / Law & Order star Fred Thompson will enter the Republican 2008 primary race. I’ll leave the analysis of Thompson’s chances to the pundits, and …
This morning, a few days after touring Frank Gehry’s new IAC headquarters on the lower west side of Manhattan…
IAC Headquarters/Frank Gehry — Photo: Albert Vecerka/ESTO
…. I was walking along 57th Street on the upper east side, where Christian de Portzamparc’s LVMH headquarters (from 1999) is located.
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Possibly the best Heroes episode yet–not as moving as “Company Man,” but more thrilling and generally mind-blowing than any others. That’s how you do it: take one compelling character, one compelling story, and follow it through from beginning to end. I accept that Heroes is wedded to the hopscotch, get …
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Buried deep in the New York Times business section today, a report about a most curious Sony Pictures Television project: minisodes, or episodes of classic TV shows, cut down to five minutes or less to run on the Web. All the entertainment of your favorite camp classics, freed from the burden of narrative!
As Steve Mosko, the president
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For a show that’s all about money, The Sopranos has never given us that clear a sense of what exactly Tony is (or isn’t) worth. So it jumped out at me when Hesh gave us his estimate of Tony’s assets: a mere $6 mil, give or take. It turns out Tony, like a good suburbanite, has been spending money as fast as he can get it–“In one …
Last January, when I went out to see the new Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, I also got an early look at what was then the nearly completed new addition to it’s parent institution, the Seattle Art Museum, which is actually a few blocks away. At the time I wrote mostly about the fascinating sculpture park, but with the addition having …
The IAC Headquarters/Frank Gehry — All Photos: Albert Vecerka/ESTO
I got a tour earlier this week of Manhattan’s first Frank Gehry building, the IAC headquarters, a 10-story undulating mesa — actually, it’s an office building — on the lower west side of Manhattan. I first got a glimpse of this project, which was commissioned …
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I meant to work an Office review into my Alec Baldwin rant, but that went on and on and on, and after the umpteenth paragraph I thought I’d better play myself off. Decent, midlevel episode. Great concept (I laughed like a donkey when I saw the obscene watermark; then again, I’m mentally 12 years old). So-so …
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I may be the last entertainment/TV blogger in the world not to comment on the Alec Baldwin incident. Technical difficulties are to blame: my technical inability to give a crap. Was Baldwin’s irate voicemail to his daughter inappropriate? Yeah. I dunno. I guess. Families are weird. Divorced celebrity families …
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I’m not generally in the habit of taking requests at Tuned In. But then again, I’m not generally in the habit of getting requests at Tuned In. Paul Lukasiak (hardest-workin’ poster in the time.com comments sections) asked in the Comments what I thought of last night’s Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, “Buying the War,” about the press’ failure …
I’ve been on the road since yesterday. Back to the blog tomorrow, Friday. Meanwhile you can check out a new architecture toy. The American Institute of Architects has set up a new layer in Google Earth that lets you “visit” digital recreations of the buildings featured on their recent list of the 150 American buildings, bridges and …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you don’t want me to ruin last night’s Lost for you, have your evil father give you $100,000 to give me in a paper bag. Or, just watch the episode before reading further.
It’s true what they say: an island vacation can do wonders for your health. If Locke getting up and walking again didn’t already …
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We at Tuned In headquarters are not made of stone. Watching the two-hour Idol Gives Back special last night with Mrs. Tuned In, we genuinely ached for the AIDS orphans in Kenya, the New Orleans kids–nearly two years after Katrina–living in conditions still stunning and unconscionable in a rich country, the African babies dying of …
