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American Idol

( Television and Music )

Why do all the contestants on American Idol over-emote? I keep waiting, hoping for one of them to pull a John Wesley Harding on us.

PBS’s all-color WWII doc

I tuned into PBS’s all-color documentary of World War II in the middle of the broadcast yesterday, at which point an instructional film on how to conduct oneself in an air raid was followed by the documentary’s discussion of the East Coast cities reluctance to observe blackouts until a number. Of course, and especially coming […]

All Palmer’s Men

I loved the All the President’s Men moment on 24 last night, with Sherry Palmer as Deep Throat. I’m hard-pressed to think of another show that could pull off a sly ironic reference like that at the same time as its potboiler plotlines get more and more compelling.