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Even the best TV shows occasionally find themselves wandering into a terrible storyline or two. Every so often, Landry is killing a man, the Earps are hanging out in Deadwood, or Kim Bauer is threatened by a cougar. In some ways, it's easy to make a show work when all of the storylines are ...
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My best birthday party ever was when I was six or seven years old. My mother and grandmother transformed our entire basement into the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz , completed with handpainted yellow brick road. I will never give my kids a birthday party that good; as a matter of fact, ...
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Wizard
Oh, it's seriously on -- now that the couples are doing two dances, and simultaneously are about to break up! I won't miss the terminal cuteness of Mollee and Nathan (the couple that gave me the sugar diabetes), and I'm going to be hoping for a Ryan/Karen pairing just to make Ashleigh crazy. ...
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We trust that you've all been dutifully hunched over your latest homework assignment, reading To The White Sea by Deliverance author James Dickey. But in case you've gotten distracted—there's a lot of other entertainment out there, after all—here's your reminder. We'll start discussing the book ...
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Ah, the holiday season. A time for friends, family, food, and taking your skittish girlfriend to a secluded cabin in the woods to scare her into wearing some ugly Kay Jewelers necklace that you've secretly implanted a GPS tracking device into. She'll never escape your love's embrace now. ...
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GPS
Pop culture is defined as much by ephemera as it is by the big things. When people look back at 2009 in decades to come, they may remember it as the year of Transformers 2 or the year NCIS took over the airwaves or something like that, but that will miss the smaller, more interesting picture ...
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Anyone looking for trends in our selection of the best books of the ’00s might have a hard time finding them amid the wizards, 19th-century serial killers, dysfunctional families and such. Narrowing down our decisions was pretty tough, and the process required a number of back-and-forths about ...
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Not all the action in the ’00s was in novels and non-fiction books, so here’s a selection of the decade’s best short-form collections.
Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
George Saunders’ prose is a rare thing: It’s deftly funny while deeply perceptive about human nature. His Pastoralia collects ...
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Too Short
Robert Palmer—not to be confused with the “Simply Irresistible” guy—was one of rock writing’s true giants. Palmer, who died at age 52 in 1997, was a clarinetist and saxophonist (he played with Ornette Coleman and Bono, among others) and ethnomusicology professor for the University of ...
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German director Werner Herzog has been making movies for 40 years, and at this point in his career, the legend very nearly eclipses the man. Herzog eating his shoe on a bet with Errol Morris, rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from an overturned car, and continuing an on-air interview after getting shot ...
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Phoenix
In Devil’s Dream , Madison Smartt Bell takes on the massive task of making the Civil War live again in a non-clichéd manner. He never wholly pulls the task off, but he comes close enough that readers with a fondness for the era may find something to enjoy in the tale. The novel’s biggest ...
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In the foreword to Zadie Smith’s first non-fiction collection, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays , the author of White Teeth taunts readers with a series of other projects she’s considered, including a serious book about writing called Fail Better . Fans of her three novels may hold her ...
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Jimmy Smith
John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road finally hits screens this week, after a much-publicized release delay and a lot of media snarking about whether the adaptation would be respectful, accurate, and ultimately worthwhile. So was it? Film writers Scott Tobias and Tasha ...
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Stephen King’s newest novel is, at 1,066 pages, his longest in more than a decade—not as big as monsters like It and The Stand , but with a cast of hundreds and an epic scale. What’s really impressive is that for all its brain-bashing size, Under The Dome goes by in a flash. In Misery, King’s ...
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I am a 29-year-old single straight man. Over the past year, I have become very close friends with a gay man close to my age. We have a blast hanging out, and I value our friendship. Four months ago, he told me that he had developed romantic feelings for me and said he needed a little space to ...
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Ben Yagoda begins his self-explanatorily titled Memoir: A History with a remarkably sardonic recap of the ’00s in memoirs, a furiously annotated list of inane trends (Dog memoirs! Rock muses telling all!) and celebrity drivel. “The first autobiography ever written, according to some counts, was ...
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"Culling," the penultimate episode of this season of Sons , opens with the members of SAMCRO circling the wagons and getting ready for the rain. It's an exciting sequence, not so much because of any tension from what we actually see--everything goes smoothly, and nobody freaks out or goes ...
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“For a choreographer the dancers are the paint…. You used your paint really smart and really beautifully.” —Adam Shankman, wise sage.
Too often there’s a disconnect between the choreography and the dancers executing that choreography on So You Think You Can Dance. There are routines where the ...
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Too Short
So, uh, remember all that stuff I said last week dismissing the cable news interpretation that the V lizard aliens=Obama? Well, maybe not. The final episode of V that we get this year kinda gave the viewer something to think about, as well as moving the plot forward somewhat, but still...it ...
