Who really benefits from American Idol?
Beside the producers and the network, that is. How about the judges?
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Michael Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray’s Trial To Be Televised
View ArticleWhere have I seen this before?
Slow as I am, I’ve only now gotten around to watching the Grammy awards (I was at a film noir festival the night they were broadcast, watching Ronald Coleman go insane and murder Shelley Winters while...
View ArticleTchotchkes for everybody!
The most hilarious thing about all the reactions to Steve Stoute’s full page ad lambasting the Grammy Awards, is the sense you get that everyone enters the discussion as if there were no other awards...
View ArticleMad Men Goes Glee
So after last night’s Mad Men comes the announcement that the version of “Zou Bisou, Bisou” that Jessica Paré sang in the party scene is being released on iTunes. What is the point of this? I...
View ArticleDick Clark, RIP
Love him or hate him, he was a force, and though his last years, especially after his stroke, turned him into something of a joke, he did more to make rock and roll the center of popular culture than...
View ArticleWhat Could Be Worse Than Glee?
How about a conservative version masterminded by Glenn Beck?
View ArticleJust Being Jimmy
It rambles, a lot, but Andrew O’Hagan’s piece in the London Review of Books on the Jimmy Savile scandal is one of the best things I’ve read about it. O’Hagan presents a wealth of historical background...
View ArticleStating the Obvious
Sometimes you need to hit them over the head with it: HT: Chris Weingarten
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