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tv shows

• book review, tv shows

  Stephenie Meyer, have you been talking to J.J. Abrams?

  09.18.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  (Breaking Dawn and Fringe SPOILER ALERT)
  Dear Stephenie,
  Did you catch the second episode of the new (almost-as-good-as Alias, probably-like-X-Files) show on Fox, Fringe? I know you’re sad, sad, sad right now about the internet-leaking of Midnight Sun, and probably you have better things to do than watch House and Fringe on Tuesday nights. Like write. Or [...]

• music, tv shows

  Music soothes the savage

  05.20.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Things were tense tonight. Tense and torn. We are positively torn between David A. and David C. I told Dick this morning that I planned to vote for Cook because his accidental rise to fame is so appealing. If you believe that whole thing about him only auditioning by chance while supporting his brother, you [...]

• parenting, peer pressure, society, tv shows

  Miley Cyrus: “You’re the grown up; you’re supposed to tell me what to do!”

  04.28.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  The blogosphere is in an uproar, and not because the guy who sang Achy Breaky Heart is (still) famous. I don’t know that much about Miley Cyrus, beyond the fact that she has a hit show on Disney, Hannah Montana, and an IMAX movie that mega-outsold U2’s recent IMAX movie (at least at our [...]

• american idol, motherhood, potty-training, tv shows

  American Idol Girls

  03.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I want you to know that I think reality shows are completely trashy and of no redeeming value. And the worst is when I start watching a show and then can’t. turn. it. off. Have you seen any of that Moment of Truth show? It really is bad. But, since I’m in the baring-my-soul mood, [...]

• tv shows

  A Good Day’s Steele

  02.23.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Before there was Moonlighting and Scarecrow and Mrs. King, there was Remington Steele.
  When the show was pitched, Pierce Brosnan’s character was supposed to be a figurehead in the show as well as in the detective agency, but fiction mimicked TV plotting, and Remington Steele became a major character and a major headache for Laura Holt.
  I [...]