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Ian Carmichael, superb comedy actor

Ian Carmichael, the appealing and highly talented British actor who played Lord Peter Wims...

movies
Oscar Nominees Announced

The Motion Picture Academy of America has announced the nominees for the upcoming Academy ...

commerce
‘Avatar’ Is Biggest Moneymaker

Yes, Avatar is about to become the top-grossing movie of all time, but it's far from being...

journalism
Inglorious Controversy

A quite revealing exchange has broken out between the acclaimed novelist and screenwrite...

movies
Eastwood, Winfrey Top Polls

Harris Interactive's annual polls of public opinion of entertainers found Clint Eastwood a...

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Eastwood Voted Top Film Star

Harris Interactive's annual polls of public opinion of entertainers found Clint Eastwood t...

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Marvel Comics Change

Marvel Comics will move away from "darker" story lines and characterizations, and  "heroe...

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Networks Raising the Bar on TV Sex

The woman in the Monty Python sketch was right when she said she's against sex on the tele...

movies
Hokey but Likable ‘Spy Next Door’ Emphasizes Good Values

Jackie Chan has always been among the most amiable and intentionally comical of action fil...

commerce
‘Air America’ Bankrupt, Shutting Down

Radio audiences give loud 'no' to progressive politics. (more…)

genres
New ’24’ Season Exemplifies Show’s Strengths

The Fox Network's venerable action-drama series 24, now in its eighth year, has always h...

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New Eps of ‘Top Gear’

Fast cars, crazy challenges, and merciless mockery of statism and elitists: the UK series ...

people
DeMille on Rights, Liberty, and the Right to Work

The late Cecil B. DeMille was not only an underappreciated master filmmaker but also a ver...

people
O’Brien Complaint May Be Tenuous

Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien is on shaky ground in his complaint against NBC, according...

people
O’Brien Leaves ‘Tonight Show’, NBC

Statement from Conan O'Brien UNIVERSAL CITY, California, January 12  -- NBC TV personalit...

commerce
It’s Official: Leno Back to 11:30, Competition Could Be Strengthened Across Board

In a move that bodes well to strengthen TV programming overall in both primetime and late ...

movies
Eric Rohmer’s Films Epitomize Elegance, Wit, Sophistication—and Wisdom

TAC contributor Shmuel Ben-Gad praises the great French filmmaker Eric Rohmer. (more&hel...

commerce
NBC May Pull Plug on Disastrous Leno-O’Brien Experiment

Press reports and even jokes on last night's Jay Leno Show point to the likelihood that NB...

culture101
McCarey’s ‘My Son John’

Leo McCarey's My Son John (1952) has been uniformly lambasted by mainstream critics s...

commerce
Consumer Electronics Show 2010

The future of the web, and thus in many ways the future of the American culture, are b...

movies
Debate: New ‘Sherlock Holmes’

The new film Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, has done very well indeed at the U....

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Rev. Dean

Clever and engaging impossible-crime mystery stories featuring a clergyman detective, Hal ...

manners-and-morals
Violent Gentlemen of Past Were Models of Moral Strength

The brilliant economist and columnist Thomas Sowell writes beautifully of a time when ev...

books
Murder and Miscreants for Christmas

On a hot August day in a big U.S. city after World War II, a man in a Santa Claus suit m...

noteworthy
Transatlantic Whirlwind

Prog-rock supergroup Transatlantic returns with another fine CD release, The Whirlwind. Cl...

movies
Gene Barry Was Consummate 1950s-’60s Cultural Figure

Hollywood actor Gene Barry died today at the age of ninety. He starred in the superb sci...

culture101
‘Ring Those Christmas Bells’—Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform a less-well-known but charming Christmas fa...

journalism
Stossel on FBN

The intelligent, well-informed, and iconoclastic TV reporter John Stossel has moved to t...

mysteries
Winsome ‘White Collar’ Offers Solid Entertainment, Good Values

The USA Network comedy-drama series White Collar exemplifies what television dramas d...

mysteries
‘Monk’ Finale Tonight

After eight years, USA Network's Monk concludes tonight with the second half of a two-par...

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The Manhattan Declaration

Chuck Colson and a dozen evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox leaders last week announced a...

philosophy
Diminished Responsibility Principle Debated

The experts behind two Italian courts' controversial decisions to reduce a convicted mur...

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Comment of the Week: ‘The Prisoner’ Demystified

There were several very interesting exchanges in our comments sections this past week, inc...