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Tonight I watched The Hills for the first time. I’d just read a lengthy piece about it in Rolling Stone while I waited at the airport for my flight this morning and I have to admit, it piqued my curiosity, especially when the writer noted that many in the culture have likened it to the
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I was catching up with my old lover TiVo last night, having been occupied every night for the past week and a half (by the end of this busy stretch, I’ll have had daily & nightly obligations for a solid two weeks). Top priorities: America’s Next Top Model and Top Chef. Top Chef‘s episode of
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It seems just a few months ago that the lovely Saleisha took the crown as America’s ninth top Tyrabot, and yet, here we are again, with a whole new crop of young women stepping on each other’s faces to get to the top. Except when they’re crying and hugging each other, yo. Here’s my preliminary
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LOS ANGELES – Four major studios have canceled dozens of writers’ contracts in a possible concession that the current television season cannot be saved, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The move means the 2-month old writers strike may also endanger next season’s new shows, the Times said. January is usually the beginning of pilot
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I’ve been rewatching the first season of Ugly Betty with my boyfriend lately, since loves it but isn’t “caught up” on the goings-on at Mode. And all this time, I’ve been rediscovering my deep, deep love for Becki Newton, who plays Mode‘s fiercely stupid yet cagily catty receptionist Amanda Tanen. As Amanda, Becki is about
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As I watched last night’s premiere of NBC’s new Bionic Woman, I was reminded of a lecture I sat through in undergrad, in which one of my film professors distilled the plot of Wizard of Oz into a simple and true statement: “The film is, at heart, the story of two women fighting over a
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