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Blogcritics on The Apprentice 2006

Having neatly dispatched a distaff televised mentorial challenge from Martha Stewart, Donald Trump returns for season five of NBC’s The Apprentice. Touted as an “international affair,” with candidates hailing from the former U.S.S.R., England, and Canada, this season’s hopefuls boast degrees from Harvard, Columbia Northwestern and Cornell University. A psychotherapist, …

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Blogcritics on Presidents Day ’06

Presidents Day is little more than a three-day weekend and an excuse for retail promotions to most of us; something vaguely attached to the February birthdays of our most renowned presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But don’t all 43 chief execs, the men who have led our nation through …

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Arrested Development: Too Big For Niche, Too Small For Mass?

I loved the first season of Arrested Development in ’03-’04; the particularity of its absurdity was sharp and richly detailed rendering its inventive satire on American values, the idle rich, the formerly idle rich, the formerly rich but still idle, and intra-family relationships telling as well as hilarious. The show …

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