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Important Notice About the Academy Awards

The movie industry's most important annual moment, the Academy Awards ceremony, will be sh...

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Grammy Wrap-Up

 I am seldom capable of watching an awards show, as they are just too painfully stupi...

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Left-Wing Talk Radio Is as Popular as Ever!

As AP reports, a wealthy leftist sugar daddy has come to the rescue of beleaguered, bankru...

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Leftists Push for TV Censorship

The notion that the left is more liberal-minded than the right is one of those thoroughly ...

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Academy Award Nominations Reflect Cultural Shibboleths

The nominations for this year's Motion Picture Academy Awards were announced today, and th...

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Flash, Eccentricity Big at Golden Globe Awards

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave out its annual Golden Globe awards last night...

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A Tribute to John Dickson Carr

This is the last day in which I can decently mark the centennial of the birth of the truly...

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Fattening Up Fashion Models

Here's an interesting item in our ongoing series of observations that everything happens i...

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Macy’s Name Change Backfires

Sometimes it's important to respect traditions and follow conventional morality even when ...

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Apocalypto Opens Strong

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, reviewed earlier on this site, opened strong this weekend, leadin...

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Lowlanders Tiring of Smutty TV

Who would have thought that the merry Dutch, world pioneers of mass-marketed pornography, ...

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What’s Good About Ultimate Fighting

 I know a couple of fellows, perfectly reputable sorts, who follow "ultimate fig...

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Why Radio Stinks

If you find current-day FM radio to be extremely boring, as I do, you can credit Clear Cha...

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New Primetime TV Serials Floundering—Here’s Why

Except for a couple of big successes—NBC's Heroes and ABC's Ugly Betty—this ye...

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The Real D-Wade

Miami Heat NBA superstar Dwyane Wade has a new slate of commercials appearing on televisio...

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The Future of Christian Cinema

In commenting on our discussion of Christian cinema (see posts immediately below), some vi...

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A Bad Sign for Christian Cinema

Screenwriter and script analyst Barbara Nicolosi is extremely disappointed by the Christia...

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Demise of Studio 60: The Social Reality Behind It

In a comment on yesterday's report on and analysis of the ratings woes of NBC's Studio 60 ...

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Madonna’s Crucifixion Reported Cancelled

The American Family Association has announced that NBC TV has decided to delete the mock c...

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The Declining Value of Radio Music Stations

In a comment on my post on The Demise of Oldies on FM radio below, Matt points out that sa...

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The Demise of Oldies on FM Radio—and a Look at the Future

  In a comment on my Chuck Berry post (immediately below) "Diskojoe" o...

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American TV Popular in “America-Hating” Europe

The reports of an increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Europe may...

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Air America Goes Bankrupt

The left-wing radio network Air America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterd...

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How to Bring Back Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is the American mystery.Who?, you ask.Ellery Queen.Still doesn't ring a bell?...

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Vote for Banacek!

One of the best television programs ever was actually three or four programs in one. The N...

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Katie Couric’s Ratings Plunge

Left-wing news pixie Katie Couric, the first woman to anchor a major network TV nightly ne...

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New TV Program Cancellations Begin—”Dark” Dramas Among First to Go

CBS and NBC have begun chopping low-performing new programs, to go along with Fox's placin...

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New TV Series Having Rough Time, Old Standbys Strong

NBC's critically acclaimed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, helmed by superstar producer Aar...

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“Bravo” for the Omniculture

One of the biggest trends of the past couple of decades has been the increasing commercial...

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TV Networks’ Ratings Up—Including Fox

The TV networks' ratings for "premiere week," when many returning shows have the...

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Fox’s New Shows Struggling

The Fox TV network debuts its shows earlier than the others, in an evident effort to get t...

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Magazines Instituting Hiring Freezes

In an effort to show better profitabilty to their corporate conglomerate owners, magazines...

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Jackass Number 2 Hits Big

Jackass Number 2 was the weekend movie box office champ with an impressive take of $29 mil...