Holy crap. Another critic makes the Gawker gossip spotlight (here’s the first one). This time, it’s hometown theater critic, Charles Isherwood, who apparently tried to tear certain striking playwrights a new hole, and ended up getting his own hole blown out by supposed layabout playwright, Jon Robin Baitz. According to Gawker: Dreamboat playwright, blogger, and [...]
Try Not To Worry…Try
Try to resist (as much as you can) the sense of oh-fuck-what-kind-of-monster-have-we-created when you read (and you should) Greg Tate’s Village Voice review/rant on Kanye West and 50 Cent, and this account of a pair of Euro hip-hoppers’ mutual admiration for negro bling and cracker jingoism: “On a recent PBS report about Europe’s love-hate relationship [...]
Nuryev! Nuryev! Get’cha Nuryev!
Channel 13‘s got Nuryev on the neurons. So do the papers… NY Times New Yorker NY Sun Newsday Yummy!
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Dalton Ross on “Californication”
We haven’t seen the series, but Entertainment Weekly‘s Dalton Ross was too cute on NY1 this morning, exlpaining that the new Showtime David Duchovny vehicle, “Californication,” is just too dirty to edit into PG: “I can’t tell you how difficult it was to pull clips to go with this review of Showtime’s “Californication.” That’s because [...]
NY 1…Snap!
Our favorite “unscientific” early morning news segment has to be NY1′s Snap Poll, which, as already mentioned, is an unscientific poll that lets you vote from your haze of grogginess with your Time Warner remote control. On the menu today? OPERA! A report released indicates that the Met broke its record for opening box office [...]
How Come I’m Not Watching This Show Already?
Okay, this shit sounds fierce. (God, is anyone using that word anymore? Oh. I guess we are.) But seriously, thanks to Mike Hale for giving us the heads up on the BET reality show, “Baldwin Hills.” Here’s our favorite part of the show/review. We’ll try to add some context with brackets: In one of the [...]
Subjective Music As Subject
Stephen Holden at The Times gives a deservedly snarky thumbs down to an upcoming public TV series, “Lights! Action! Music!” which presumes to explore the relationship between the moving image and the musical score. By Holden’s account, it’s a cursory, frivolous chip into a bigger, more fascinating iceberg. I’ll go a step further and argue [...]
Culture War Brewin’ Over New TNT Show
It’s seriously a virtual civil war raging over at the TNT messageboards! If you ever wanna get a glimpse into essential conflict ripping our country into two halves–the average, channel surfing, hifalutin,’ Focus On The Family joinin’, GWB voting, Americans, and the rest of us–check out the forum for the new series, Saving Grace, which [...]
We’re All Goin To Hell
The Sun‘s Matthew Oshinsky chimes in on TNT’s new cougar drama, Saving Grace. CC watched the televised premier last night. We lost patience for the show after about five seconds, but we stuck around anyway. The “character shaping” here is obvious and heavy handed, and super cliche: sex + drugs + rock-n-roll = you’re going [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Alessandra Stanley on TV Conspiracy!
It’s in the air. The television industry must be in some kind of golden age of conspiratorial cross-marketing. Counter Critic did its own ranting with this post yesterday. Then we came across Alessandra Stanley’s jab at the TV industry in her Times review of Coming To America, the reality series starring the Beckhamses. Stanley isn’t [...]
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