January 2012
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Jan 24th
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Jan 20th
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“Like tuning into NPR, knitting and canning, watching “Sunday...”
– Charles Osgood finds a new generation of squares hep to his old-fashioned ‘Sunday Morning’ style | Capital New York (via JimRomenesko.com)
Jan 19th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Video: Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the... →
Documentary aired last month, is now streaming at video.pbs.org
Jan 12th
“It is important to realise that in all the years I have been in the music...”
– Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols on his butter ads Posh punk: fashion turns the clock back to 1977—The Observer
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Reasons to be Cheerful» Blog Archive » In Search... →
It’s available to listen to (even in the U.S.) here. Actually found it rather gossipy and somewhat boring, radio being not the best medium for a discussion of visual art (and I say that as a veteran of at least one hundred episodes of a radio program where the host interviewed a lot of visual artists while I trimmed my cuticles with a single-edge blade in the control room).
Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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WatchWatch
BTS at tonight’s #BBCAmerica broadcast of Wait, Wait—Don’t Tell Me, 8pm EST-so no Countdown with Keith Olbermann for you!
Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 17th
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Dec 15th
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Bert Schneider obituary: 'Easy Rider' producer... →
Academy Award winner (Documentary Feature) for Hearts and Minds; Emmy award winner (Outstanding Comedy Series) for The Monkees. His father was Columbia Pictures chairman Abraham Schneider. Along with Easy Rider, Bert Schneider and  Bob Rafelson produced The Monkees’ Head, Five Easy Pieces, and The Last Picture Show.
Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We... →
Nostalgia kills culture, as we’ve always maintained. VF has posted this excellent culture think piece online, yay!
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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George Clooney And Sony Pictures Plan Feature On... →
Cannot WAIT to see this!
Dec 12th
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The Mad, mad world of Al Jaffee - CNN.com →
And the rest of The Usual Gang of Idiots, too.
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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“Mr. Sues was in New York when he learned Mr. Schlatter wanted to work with him....”
– Alan Sues (1926-2011). Before Laugh-In, he was cast in Edie Adams’ Vegas act by producer George Schlatter. Alan Sues, a ‘Laugh-In’ Cast Mainstay, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
November 2011
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“Pan Am is the third such retro period show to struggle and die, after CBS’...”
– Remember, the first 13 episodes were pre-sold to the BBC. And ABC says it’s not dead…just resting. Until next fall. Riiight… ‘Pan Am’ Proves It: ‘Mad Men’ Knockoffs Just Don’t Work - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
Nov 29th
Doris Day's 'My Heart' To Receive December U.S.... →
Produced by her son, the late Terry Melcher of L.A. music and brush-with-Manson fame. ALL proceeds will benefit her animal rescue foundation.
Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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BBC News - Ken Russell: A true British original →
I see that the career retrospectives in these obits are omitting works like Altered States…
Nov 28th
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Nov 23rd
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WatchWatch
Not only is Fallon channeling Jim Morrison here to hysterical effect, but Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’s version of the theme to Reading Rainbow is almost a shot-for-shot re-creation of the Doors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Nov 17th
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15 facts about Mr Rogers. The coolest man to have... →
I would add a number 16: by having a live jazz piano trio provide the underscore for the show, Fred Rogers turned a lot of young musicians like myself on to the power of arranging. He would present his own tunes to the audience in a very straight-ahead manner—not “playing down” to a kid level, but the accompaniment was minimal, with lots of that twinkling sound he liked, and...
Nov 17th
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Marking 85 Years of NBC | NBC New York →
No magazines, no TV, no RCA, no G.E.: David Sarnoff founded the National Broadcasting Company, the first permanent radio network in the United States, in 1926— because he wanted programming on the air to spur sales for the products of its parent company: the Radio Corporation of America.
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 15th
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“I can say ‘Jesus,’ I can say ‘Christ,’ but I can’t...”
– Matthew Weiner on His Beef With Alex Trebek, and How Mad Men Will End - Hollywood Prospectus Blog
Nov 14th
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Mad Men Goes Meta - TV References From the First 3... →
Wait’ll they get to Season 4, I want to see an acknowledgement of all the Bewitched references.
Nov 14th
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'The Last Picture Show': Classic Hollywood -... →
Peter Bogdanovich, Cybill Shepherd, Clotis Leachman to participate in a 40th-anniversary tribute this week.
Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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