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ABC’s “Daisies” Starts Strong

The award for most creative new show so far this year certainly must go to Pushing Daisies...

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Audiences Decide Bionic Woman a Bionic Bore

As we noted yesterday, the high ratings for the premiere episode of the new NBC series Bio...

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Rolling Stones Tour Grosses Half a Billion Dollars

The Rolling Stones' recently concluded two-year concert tour grossed more than half a bill...

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Action Star “The Rock” Goes Gooey

The new Disney film The Game Plan, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as an egot...

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Appalling Scandal of Alfred Hitchcock’s Collaboration

A new exhibit opening Friday at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art brings the a...

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Hollywood’s Antiwar Investment—Wasted!

Here's a big non-surprise: the spate of antiwar films Hollywood has begun to release in re...

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Disney Suppressing “Path to 9/11” DVD for Political Reasons?

The Hollywood actress known in print as Anna Nimouse notes today on National Review Online...

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59th Primetime Emmy Awards

The results announced at last night's Primetime Emmy Awards for what passes as television ...

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Emmy Awards—I Don’t Care, But I Don’t Mind If You Do

I never watch award shows these days—haven't done so for about a half-dozen years&md...

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Stossel on Health Care

John Stossel, co-anchor of the ABC-TV news magazine 20/20, has been producing superb work ...

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Why Johnny Doesn’t Read

Men read far fewer books than women today. That's a documented fact, and the gap is becomi...

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FCC Authority over Indecency Challenged—but Govt. Agency Is Right for Once

When it comes to regulation of communications, usually the FCC and the Congress have it al...

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Defending the Indefensible, Based on Skin Color

The journalist and novelist Mark Goldblatt has frequently gone out on a limb to criticize ...

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Net Neutrality Is a Very Bad Idea, Justice Dept. Says

So-called Net neutrality, a concept favored by statists, under which Internet providers wo...

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De Palma’s War on Iraq War

The anti-Iraq War push is on in Hollywood, as recent U.S movies at the Venice Film Festiva...

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Another Try at Genre-Bending

The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually a...

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“High School Musical 2” Grabs Record Audience

If you need any demonstration of the amazing cultural power of tweeners (young people exit...

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“Superbad” Opens Big

 The raunchy coming-of-age comedy Superbad opened big at the box office this past wee...

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Rowling Along on Mystery Novel

J. K. Rowling, author of the mega-bestselling Harry Potter books, is writing a detective n...

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The Perversion of Tolerance

Today on National Review Online, American Enterprise Institute education policy studies di...

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Rush Hour 3 Draws Big Audiences

The Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker action comedy Rush Hour 3, reviewed positively on this site l...

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Three Summer Series Renewed

USA Network has renewed its superb espionage comedy-drama Burn Notice, according to a repo...

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ABC Is “Gayest” TV Network—Study

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has declared that the U.S. televis...

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Bourne Again

The Bourne Ultimatum scored the biggest August opening weekend U.S. box office take in his...

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Best-Reviewed Film of the Year

The best-reviewed movie of the first half of the year was . . .Ratatouille.So reports the ...

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An Immorality Play

The Adam Sandler comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry was the top U.S. box office at...

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TV Tackles the Sensate Culture

Summer has become the main season for cable TV networks to premiere new series and special...

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Emmy Award Nominees Announced, World Yawns Mightily

 The nominees for TV's Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, and details are av...

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House, M.D. Set for Changes

The producers of the highly rated and critically acclaimed Fox medical-mystery drama House...

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Monk Stumbles Out of Gate

As I mentioned in my post last week on the season premieres of USA Network mainstays Monk ...

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Harry Potter Number 5 Opens Strong; Here’s Why

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had a very strong opening week at the box office...

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“Hot Ghetto Mess” TV Program Under Fire

At least two companies have pulled their ads from the upcoming July 25 premiere of the Bla...

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The Secret of Transformers’ Success

The mega-budget sci-fi action film Transformers hit theaters this week as the top box-offi...