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by | Dec 18, 2023

Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if…

by | Dec 11, 2023

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the…

by | Dec 11, 2023

Guglielmo Marconi was stubborn. He probably got that from his mother, an Irish noblewoman who had moved to Italy to…

by | Dec 8, 2023

For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a…

by | Dec 8, 2023

I learned about the television industry the hard way as a kid. One Monday night in 1968, I turned on…

by | Dec 5, 2023

Both of my grandfathers are dead. Both died abruptly.  My father’s father passed away from a stroke when I was…

by | Nov 21, 2023

The Last Devil to Die By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books, 362 pages, $29) If I had known that Richard…

by | Jun 27, 2023

Fox News has shuffled its hosts to address the departure of Tucker Carlson. Sean Hannity stays at 9 p.m. Eastern….

by | Jun 5, 2023

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes…

by | Apr 30, 2023

I hear there’s another writers’ strike about to hit Hollywoke. Once upon a time this was a big deal. When…

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