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30

The Pirate Bay: Sold!

Nicole Kagan -
The battle against pirates has finally been settled for one file-sharing website.

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Posted In: Technology, Music, Film And TV, Internet, Business at 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
 
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Jun
26

ARMOND WHITE on Michael Jackson's Legacy

Armond White -
Armond White spoke about Michael Jackson during this On Camera Program, "Pop Video Artists and Hollywood Influence" Jan. 18, 2008. In part 1 of the video clip of White speaking, which really gets started around the 3:35 mark, he focuses on Jackson's "era-defining movements." See part 1 below, and click here for part 2.

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Posted In: Music, Film And TV, Opinion, Culture, Entertainment at 02:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
 
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Jun
24

The Real Housewives of Atlanta Returns

Sarah Stern -

Bravo, the well-known guilty pleasure channel, announced yesterday that it will be premiering another installation of the Real Housewives of Atlanta on July 30.

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Jun
18

'Twin Peaks' is Back, Sort of

Will Alden -
The early '90s television series Twin Peaks, whose brilliant and even transcendent first season was followed by a disappointing and often abysmal second, will be revived in five-minute webisodes that pick up where the show left off so many years ago.

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Jun
17

Drive-In Movies are Coming Back

Henry Melcher -
After the drive-in movies’ 75-year decline, one Californian is trying to bring them back.

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Posted In: Film And TV, Culture at 10:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
 
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Jun
16

Beautiful People

Mark Peikert -
Why aren’t more people talking about Beautiful People on Logo? The BBC series about Barney’s creative director Simon Doonan’s childhood (updated from the ’60s to the ’90s) is the kind of deliriously whacked-out comedy that should inspire a cult following—especially since it’s produced by one of the men behind Absolutely Fabulous.

Beautiful People being British, half the jokes fly over my head, but who can care when there’s a fearlessly gay 13-year-old on television fully supported by his parents? When the young Simon (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) leaves for school in costume to audition for the school’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, he and his mother (scene-stealer Olivia Colman) sashay down the street singing “Take That Look Off Your Face” from Song and Dance, while his best friend Kylie (Layton Williams) offers up a high-kicking version of “Tomorrow” and the neighborhood’s mean girl belts “Don’t Rain on My Parade” before they all head off to school singing “Ease on Down the Road.”

Smartly going for the darkly comedic zaniness of AbFab, Beautiful People is another wise move on the part of Logo. If The Big Gay Sketch Show is frequently as dull and inexplicable as Saturday Night Live, at least Logo offers genuinely entertaining shows like Sordid Lives (which sadly looks unlikely for a second season), Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, and breakout hit RuPaul’s Drag Race. Beautiful People fits in nicely with those shows, even with its determinedly British, hyper-realistic style that finds a grandmother’s death from a microwave explosion played for laughs. With only three episodes left, make Beautiful People your must-watch summer TV fare. Think of it as a crisp gin and tonic in the middle of a miserable television heat wave exemplified by I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.

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Jun
16

So Long Sue, NBC Drops Anchors

Nicole Kagan -

This fall, NBC stations will replace traditional 5 p.m. newscasts with a daily lifestyle show, reports The Observer.

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Posted In: Film And TV, Culture at 01:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
 
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Jun
16

James Franco Beats Off

Sarah Stern -

Perennial heartthrob James Franco might have a little obsession with the romanticism of the Beat generation.

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Posted In: Film And TV at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
 
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Jun
15

Why Does Everyone Like Glee so Much?

Henry Melcher -

I don’t get it. Is Fox's new show Glee really that great? Sure, there are funny lines here and there and everything Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester) says is hilarious, but the rest of the show is flat-out uninteresting.

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Posted In: Film And TV, Opinion at 11:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
 
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Jun
15

Spider-Man on Subway

Henry Melcher -

Spider-Man is getting lazy. The superhero has recently been spotted not only taking public transportation, but walking rather casually down the subway platforms.

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Posted In: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Film And TV, Transit at 09:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
 
 




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