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David Letterman, media critic: The New York Times and ‘douche’
Why does David Letterman remain the guy you want to see first on any random night? Because when he goes over to his desk after the monologue, you never know what’s going emerge from what’s stuck in Dave’s craw that evening.
Last night’s spontaneous combustion occurred over a story that had me scratching my head over
Collected 3 days ago from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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On ‘Good Morning America,’ Barbara Walters to Sarah Palin’s kids: ‘How do you feel when people criticize Mommy?’ Ick…
Sarah Palin says that when it comes to Sarah Palin, “there’s so much bullcrap out there.” Then she and Barbara Walters contributed to the pile. I’m not surprised Palin had Walters interview her for Good Morning America; who else would have asked this question?:
“How do you feel when people criticize Mommy?”
Willow, 15 and Piper, eight years
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Sarah Palin on ‘Oprah’: ‘Annoyed’ with the McCain campaign and ‘the perky one’ (Katie Couric), plus Levi’s ‘aspiring porn’ career
Sarah Palin launched her media tour to promote this week’s release of her book Going Rogue: An American Life by telling Oprah Winfrey that when she first heard of her daughter Bristol’s pregnancy, “Were we giddy-happy to be grandparents? No.” She said she “rewrote” the McCain campaign’s press release about that subject, but that she was
Collected Nov 17, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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‘Saturday Night Live’ and January Jones: Betty Draper tells jokes
Wow. From the season’s best edition to the season’s worst in the space of a week: That’s the way it goes with the always unpredictable (but not always in a good way) Saturday Night Live.
You’d think, freed from the constraints of the artfully over-thought Mad Men, January Jones would have cut loose as this week’s
Collected Nov 16, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Do you watch the videos that YouTube recommends for you? (These ones it picked for me are… unsettling)
When I go to the YouTube homepage, I don’t often look at the “Recommended For You” videos that YouTube has so kindly selected for me. But I looked at the assortment this morning, and I wonder just who YouTube thinks I am.
“Spicy Padma!”??

Okay, I do watch Top Chef, so I guess that makes sense, but
Collected Nov 15, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Chuckles the Clown weeps: David Lloyd, the great TV comedy writer, has died
David Lloyd, the extraordinarily prolific, witty sitcom writer, died on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Neither the cause of death nor his age has been disclosed as yet.
A Yale graduate who started his career writing jokes for The Jack Paar Show, Lloyd went on to write for a number of exceptional sitcoms, including The Mary Tyler Moore
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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CMA Awards best and worst, starring Taylor Swift, the ghost of Kanye West, and Carrie Underwood’s purple sequined hot-pants
Taylor Swift became the youngest person to win the Entertainer of the Year, the final prize given out last night at the 43rd annual Country Music Association Awards. And the restraint she showed on last week’s Saturday Night Live in not making a Kanye West joke went out the window at the CMAs. Which means it’s
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Sarah Palin: Levi is 'Loved' - CBS News Video
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Sarah Palin: Levi is 'Loved' - CBS News Video
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‘Sons of Anarchy’ warning: Don’t miss tonight’s (longer) episode
I’m telling you now: Come home from the bar early, or put the kids to bed early, or start drinking coffee early, or all of the above. You are not going to want to miss tonight’s Sons of Anarchy (FX, 10 p.m.). Also, adjust your DVR to accommodate its expanded length (in a special 90-minute
Collected Nov 11, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
tagged - ad: fall tv, - ad: scripted tv, fall tv 2009, news, tv tonight
‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ ‘Best Moments’: Now THIS is the TV series we used to love…
This week’s Jon & Kate Plus Eight was an hour-long clip-job: “Viewers’ Top Moments,” as voted by long-time J&K-watchers on TLC’s website. This was a smart programming decision. After so many weeks of Kate and TLC trying to make entertainment out of the muck of tabloid controversy, simply letting us watch old footage, when the Gosselins
Collected Nov 10, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Taylor Swift hosted the best ‘Saturday Night Live’ of the season so far… really!?!
Taylor Swift proved to be this season’s best Saturday Night Live host so far. Whether shrewdly letting her Kate Gosselin wig do most of the acting during a typically pungent parody of The View, or gleefully screeching while wearing braces in a public-service commercial satirizing texting-while-driving, Swift was always up for the challenge, seemed to be
Collected Nov 9, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Jon Stewart maps out the path to Glenn Beck’s appendix via the health-care bill
You could say it’s shooting fish in a barrel, Jon Stewart tracking the growing size and monster reputation of the health-care bill, tying it, so to speak, to Glenn Beck’s recent appendicitis attack, as contrasted with the fulminating Beck has done about big, bad government health-care reform:

Still, it’s a very good joke. By the way: Don’t
Collected Nov 7, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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‘Supernatural’ review: ‘Changing Channels’: Sam and Dean spoofed ‘Grey’s,’ ‘CSI,’ and a sitcom
Supernatural may be surrounded by heavy-duty time-period competition — Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, The Office, Fringe — but it just keeps doing its demon-ganking thing, and this week’s episode, called “Changing Channels,” managed to beat a few of those competitors at their own game.
We were told Sam and Dean are dealing with a familiar foe: (WARNING:
Collected Nov 6, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Carl Ballantine, an ‘amazing’ comedy magician and ‘McHale’s Navy’ co-star, has died
Carl Ballantine, a wonderfully clever magician and comic actor, has died at age 92.
Ballantine was known to 1960s sitcom-watchers as Lester Gruber on McHale’s Navy, which starred Ernest Borgnine.
But well before that, Ballantine made his reputation as a unique magician in nightclubs and on TV talk shows. He was one of the first magicians to
Collected Nov 6, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Yes, there is a new ‘Fringe’ episode tonight. Here’s why you should watch it.
The World Series is over (pause; sob; Phillies fan here). But there is a silver lining: A new episode of Fringe will air tonight.

Entitled “Earthling,” the hour will give you lots of new background on the life of boss-man Broyles. (Small spoiler: he keeps a storage unit. And we see his ex-wife. That’s two spoilers,
Collected Nov 6, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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Ian McKellen a ‘Prisoner’ of ‘The View’ this morning: Attacks, mistakes, and ‘Mag-NETTO’
Poor Ian McKellen. He went on The View this morning to promote his new Prisoner miniseries, but the gals had other things on their minds. Whoopi wanted to know whether he was going to be “coming back in Harry Potter?” Whoops: He politely informed her he was in The Lord of the Rings. Understandable mistake —
Collected Nov 6, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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‘South Park’ last night: Trying to make ‘The F Word’ okay, and beating up Emmanuel Lewis
South Park tried to teach us a lesson last night, and lesson-teaching is something a TV show should usually try to avoid, because it usually makes for lousy storytelling.
That proved to be the case for South Park. Stan and his pals were irritated by a motorcycle gang that kept roaring around town, and drowning out
Collected Nov 6, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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‘Modern Family’: ‘Who Da Manny?’
We’ve come to like Modern Family so quickly because the new sitcom has so quickly made its characters vivid and distinctive. Oh, and funny. Little Manny, as played with uncommon adroitness by Rico Rodriguez, has been established in previous episodes as a precocious, articulate kid who can hold a mature, advice-filled conversation with, for example,
Collected Nov 5, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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What should Adrian Pasdar’s next project be?
As my colleague Michael “The Master” Ausiello has reported, Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. Which raises the question, what should he do next? I’d rather not see him stuck as a supporting player on another courtroom drama, as he was for years on Judging Amy. (Um, not that I watched Judging Amy.)
I’d kinda love it
Collected Nov 4, 2009 from feeds.ew.com via blog import
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