April 2011
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“In the twenty [sic] years since its first release, [An American Family]...”
– The vanishing vision: the inside … - Google Books
Okay, so no DVD extras, then? Actually, I’d bet good money there will never be an official DVD release of the complete An American Family series for a variety of contractual reasons, and because even while looking at it over the weekend...
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"Can a Documentary Be Made of Real Life?" →
We spent the weekend with the Loud family—first on Saturday evening with the fictional version on HBO’s Cinema Verite (if there’s a bio-pic star who bears a stronger natural resemblance to the real subject than Tim Robbins does to Bill Loud, remind us please)—then with the PBS World airing of the An American Family series as the background to Sunday activities. This article...
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BBC America to air ‘Battlestar Galactica’ - WHY? →
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“By echoing their language, Brown immerses us in their world – and by so doing,...”
– 3quarksdaily: Inaccurate but Plausible
Nothing spoils the mood in historical fiction quite like the intrusion of a modern word or usage.
What TV owes to Ernie Kovacs - Salon.com →
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“Way to take daytime television back to 1957 and pre women’s lib, Frons. What’s...”
– Deadline.com commenter “Nate” reacts to ABC Daytime Programming chief Brian Frons’ upcoming All My Children replacement series, The Chew. (Ew, really? You tested that title?)
We rarely tune in to ABC’s broadcast network anymore as it is, and these new daytime series...
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MID-CENTURIA : Art, Design and Decor from the... →
General Motors industrial film from 1958, subtitled In Appreciation of the Stylists of America. Makes the point, still not stated enough: that every object we use in life was designed by somebody. I won’t embed the video here because it looks better in widescreen, so visit midcenturia.com or watch at archive.org
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Lions Gate Finalizing Netflix Deal to Stream All... →
Claps hands, jumps up and down…
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