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OK, so 24 repeats itself. That’s what it does; that’s what it’s for. It’s probably silly to even point it out. And I tend to agree with Tim Goodman that 24 is so ludicrous, it defies analysis.
But it doesn’t defy a quick-and-dirty list, so here’s a taxonomy of elements from last night’s episode lifted from earlier 24 seasons:
* Jack …
I spoke earlier today with John Elderfield, the chief curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, who wanted to elaborate on an episode that I mentioned in an earlier blogpost about the very imaginative compensation arrangements devised some years ago for MoMA Director Glenn Lowry, which came to light recently in the New York …
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From the you-didn’t-ask-for-it-you-got-it-anyway dept., this just came in over the transom from MTV:
THE SEARCH IS ON!
MTV AND MTV Tr3s JOIN FORCES TO FIND THE NEXT MENUDO BEGINNING ON MARCH 31MTVMenudoNew York, NY/Santa Monica, CA — (March 6, 2007) — The search to recreate Menudo, one of the biggest and most successful Latin pop
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The argument behind the self-help concept The Secret–sorry, The Secret–is that if you want something, you can get it through force of will, determination and positive thinking. This may also be true of winning network-news ratings battles. In February,
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If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes, remove the top of your head and input the contents of the episode before reading further.
NBC Photo: Justin Lubin
So, good news and bad news. On the one hand, Mohinder’s not dead. But on the bright side, Sylar could still kill him in the next episode!
While last night’s episode didn’t match
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In the British newspaper The Guardian Frank Gehry posted a few reflections today about his upcoming new Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi. The most interesting part is this:
“Abu Dhabi does throw up some very particular issues for the Guggenheim and the display of art. I don’t think we’ll be allowed to display nudes, and there are all sorts of
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OK, so if I told you there is a YouTube video of someone drawing John Locke’s face on an egg using his computer, would that be worth a post? OK, maybe not. Suppose I told you that video was the third most-watched video of the day on YouTube as I write this? Still not so much? OK, how about the fact that there exists an entire genre of …
After maintaining silence on the questions raised by the disclosure of MoMA Director Glenn Lowry’s wonderfully intricate compensation package, MoMA’s Chairman Robert Menschel and President Marie-Josee Kravis have spoken up by way of a letter to the editor in last Saturday’s New York Times, though not one that does much to clarify the …
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Was able to catch the purportedly sacrilegious Discovery documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus last night, after a brief outage in one of my TiVo tuners that I must take to be the work of an angry God. It takes more than divine intervention, however, to stop the Satanic force that is television criticism.
I can’t say, I have that much to …
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WARNING: If you haven’t watched last night’s Battlestar Galactica and don’t want it spoiled, go the frak away.
SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal
It’s a strange experience watching sci-fi shows on advance screener DVDs. Because so many scenes contain effects that are added in postproduction at the last minute, the episodes are often
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Any given season, there are at least a couple series that I watch, loyally and attentively, even though they are not, in any aesthetically defensible sense of the word, good. This year, that award has to go to Jericho, CBS’s postapocalyptic drama set in Kansas after a multiple nuke attack cripples the U.S. The
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Who’s afraid of YouTube? Viacom may be, but not Her Majesty’s broadcasters. The BBC has just announced a deal to launch three channels on YouTube, which will carry BBC news, documentaries and clips and video diaries from programs including Doctor Who. The broadcaster says it has worked out a …
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My Culture Complex column in this week’s Time looks at the Lost Tomb of Jesus controversy as an example of the love/hate/love-to-hate relationship between Hollywood and Christianity.
Just to be clear: I’m not taking a side on the accuracy of the documentary, or for that matter the New Testament; you want to hear from someone who …
