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» 2008Sep 3, 2008
Her politics combine an outdoorsy libertarian bent with rigorous fundamentalism in a way that happens to creep me out, and yet I must concede that Madame Governor Palin makes a charming first impression. The key is her …
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Sep 1, 2008
Around 10 a.m. ET on Monday, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers announced that the city of Houma, not New Orleans, would be getting the brunt of Hurricane Gustav's wind and rain. On the other side of the screen, a …
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Sep 1, 2008
To repeat one of the most pressing questions of our era: Who is Gossip Girl (the CW, Mondays at 9 p.m. ET)? People who like TV but do not watch Josh Schwarz's teensploitation soap (that is, most people) know her as a …
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Aug 5, 2008
The most dynamic subgenre of reality television is the caste-climbing makeover competition, and its essential text is Ladette to Lady, canceled this year after three delightful seasons on the U.K.'s ITV. The program …
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Aug 1, 2008
The most striking visual element of Pam: Girl on the Loose (E!, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET)—setting aside the pinup figure of Pamela Anderson, itself a major work of contemporary popular art—is the texture of the light. The …
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Jul 31, 2008
The great joke about the original movies on Lifetime, the grande dame of gynocentric cable channels, is that they present unvarying visions of women as victims—pap weepies about cancer and kidnapping or plump …
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Jul 25, 2008
Evelyn Waugh is the greatest comic novelist of the last 100 years, and if you somehow dispute this fact, there is simply nothing to be done for you but a period of house arrest. One or another reputable online …
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Jul 15, 2008
America's Got Talent (NBC, check local listings) finds Regis Philbin in top form. Free from the cranky-dad shtick he affects on Live With Regis and Kelly, and unencumbered by the grating catch-phraseology of Who Wants …
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Jul 7, 2008
Among the many pleasures of the increasingly vital classic-movies channel TCM is that it doesn't air commercials. Without any sponsors in the picture, TCM only has to answer to cable operators—who, according to …
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Jun 27, 2008
One of the great stock scenes of 20th-century child-rearing—a cliché since, let's say, the first season of American Bandstand—sees Mom lecturing Junior that it's a nice summer day outside and that it's such a shame …
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