The Golden Globes Share The Wealth, Such As It Is
Let us say this first: The Golden Globes are Hollywood culture at its most purely self-perpetuating. Given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of journalists so gleefully...
View ArticleThe Beatles, As America First Loved Them
It's been 50 years since The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, to an audience of screaming, hair-pulling, ecstatic (in the classic sense) teenage girls. Cutes in suits, you might call them, like...
View ArticleOscars 2014: Low On Laughs, But A Great Speech Or Two
The big winner was 12 Years a Slave, but there was quite a bit of love to go around at Sunday night's Oscars. What there wasn't, as usual, was a lot of riveting television.Sure, there was John Travolta...
View Article'Mad Men' Returns, Full Of Footnotes
Imagine a scene in which a man is sitting on a park bench reading a book. A woman comes up and sits beside him. He looks up at her. She hands him a letter. "It's over," she says.If you were to see this...
View Article'Say Anything,' Still Full Of Guileless Affection
Transcript WADE GOODWYN, HOST: Twenty-five years ago, Lloyd Dobler raised a boombox over his head and changed the world of movie boyfriends forever.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN YOUR EYES")PETER GABRIEL:...
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Oscar Buzz Builds At Toronto Film Fest
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The biggest film festival in North America is in full swing. The Toronto International Film Festival shows...
View ArticleHBO Without Cable, Coming In 2015
HBO has built a robust and popular online presence over the past couple of years with its app, HBO GO. But to get it — as is the case with many streaming services that offer television over the...
View ArticleSarah Koenig On Serial: 'I Think Something Went Wrong With This Case'
It's hard to believe that not only was there no Serial six months ago, there was no Serial three months ago. The hugely popular podcast, a spinoff production of This American Life, didn't even premiere...
View ArticleAt The Oscar Nominations, It's A Good Year To Be An Idiosyncratic Man
[At the top of this post, you'll find a discussion I had with Stephen Thompson, my Pop Culture Happy Hour co-panelist, about the Oscar nominations. Tomorrow's full PCHH episode more fully covers the...
View ArticleWatch The Super Bowl Or We'll Kick This Dog: The Saddest Ads Ever
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View ArticleThe Super Bowl, Shark Attacks And Monday Morning Quarterbacks
As longtime PCHH listeners know, Stephen Thompson hosts a Super Bowl party every year that keeps him hopping and keeps us from discussing the game in real time as we otherwise would. Therefore, we sat...
View ArticleAfter 16 Years, Jon Stewart Is Leaving 'The Daily Show'
A presidential election cycle looms, but one of the men most associated with covering presidential politics since the first election of George W.
View ArticleWatch The Oscars With Us
The nominees are in, the arguments have been had, and the ceremony is all that's left of Oscar season. (Well, and the griping over what should have won.)On Sunday night, we'll be where lots of other...
View Article'Birdman' Wins Big On A Soggy Night At The Oscars
The rain that fell on Hollywood as the hours of red-carpet coverage wore on may have provided one of the evening's best visuals: actual people running around wearing plastic bags as they guided famous...
View ArticleHere Comes 'The X-Files,' Back For More Mulder, More Scully, And More
Everything old really is new again. Even aliens.Fox announced today that The X-Files, which ran on television from 1993 until 2002 and was accompanied by feature films in 1998 and 2008, will be back as...
View Article5 Thoughts On Trevor Noah Taking Over 'The Daily Show'
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View ArticleThe End Of 'American Idol'
[Note: Listen to the audio above to hear a conversation I had with Pop Culture Happy Hour team member Stephen Thompson about the end of the show.]Ahead of its fall programming presentation to...
View ArticleLifetime's Scripted Drama 'Unreal' Goes Behind The Scenes Of Reality TV
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The Heat Is On With These Summer Romance Novels
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