March 2009
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Ménage à TV
by Daniel Erenberg
Three new television shows premiered last week, amidst much hype and ubiquitous advertising campaigns. All three shows turned out to be ratings disappointments, but the networks certainly couldn’t be blamed this time. They got those shows out there. For one, who here hasn’t heard of Kings? That show has been everywhere these last few months. I haven’t been able to take a damn...
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Nan Goldin’s famous slideshow at MoMA
by Janna Washington
Ryan in the tub, Provincetown, Mass. 1976
Growing up, everyone has that hip friend. You know the one I’m talking about. The worldly girl who sneaks you your first cigarette one afternoon in the bathroom next to the cafeteria. The guy who has his own car while you still depend on your mom to pick you up from the movies. The kid who has the...
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Our First and Final Word On Watchmen
by Daniel Erenberg and Joe Ireland
Joe: I think I should start out by saying that I’m no expert when it comes to comics, though I’ve read several series and enjoyed most of the ones that I’ve read, some of them quite a bit. Watchmen is hands-down my favorite comic, so I was super excited when I heard that an adaptation was going to be released, and only slightly less excited when I heard that...
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TV Review: Castle
by Daniel Erenberg
Somewhere, in a saner universe than our own, Nathan Fillion is the biggest movie star on the planet. He’s got matinee idol looks, he looks like he could take you in a fight, he’s as good at slapstick as he is at subtler verbal humor and he forces you to immediately care about the characters he plays, no matter how morally ambiguous they are. Unfortunately for his career and...
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City Tree
by David Zarnitzky
A city tree like a peasant indentured with shackled feet has no fair vision of lofty heights climbing or great girth gaining to be hole-cut-through and driven on a picture postcard placed. To the heavens from its common root Never shall it rise…
FULL POEM AND MORE BY DAVID
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ADVANCED Film Review: I Love You, Man
by Daniel Erenberg
I Love You, Man is a good film for only one reason. Its cast is phenomenal. Paul Rudd and Jason Segel carry this movie, completely elevating it beyond the rather uninspired material they are given. The film is also populated with such gifted comedic actors as Rashida Jones, Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin and Andy Samberg in appropriate supporting roles....
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The Smoke Monster vs. Ben Folds Five's "Smoke"
by Danielle Berg and Daniel Erenberg
The smoke monster of Lost is perhaps the show’s most mysterious element; “Smoke,” off Ben Fold Five’s album Whatever and Ever Amen is a fantastic song about a breakup. Dan and Danielle pitted these two contenders against each other to decide which is better. What they found was not the obvious conclusion they had predicted; led, perhaps, by destiny, they...
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Life On The TV Bubble
by Daniel Erenberg
It occurred to me this week that we are a mere two and a half months away from the broadcast network upfront presentations. So I thought we could take a look at some existing shows that remain on the proverbial network bubble and whether they will or won’t and should or shouldn’t be cancelled. I’m not going to go into mid-season replacement shows like Dollhouse or Castle...