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J.K. Rowling owns “muggles” and whatnot: A federal court on Wednesday threw out author Nancy Stouffer’s claims that Rowling, the author of the blockbuster Harry Potter ( news – web sites) books, stole words and characters from Stouffer’s books. The claims were made against Rowling and her U.S. publisher and …
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A.I. in the N.E.
How did I miss this??
Read More »American Idol Contracts
I’m very pleased to have a feature in Salon today on the American Idol contestant contract situation, which is not good, for them: Hope, uncertainty, euphoria, disillusionment: This is a familiar career arc for pop stars caught in the manufacturing cogs of the star-making machine, from Ronnie Spector and the …
Read More »Multitasking
New study says many watch TV and surf the Internet at the same time: Where do TV and the Internet meet? The answer, according to a study released today by comScore Media Metrix, is that it’s often in the same room. The survey of 45.1 million Americans finds that 48% …
Read More »Sopranos Commentary
Great news: Radley Balko (damn, I love that name) is joining Blogcritics, and he will be doing a running commentary/review of The Sopranos season episode by episode. Here’s the first installment from his site: One murder, some coke, an orgy with Icelandic flight attendants, loads of manipulation, and a capo …
Read More »Kelly’s Album Delayed Until Early ’03
From Billboard: The debut album release by “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson has been postponed until early 2003. Sources say that the RCA album — which originally had been due Nov. 26 — was pushed back due to Clarkson’s commitment to this fall’s “American Idol” tour. Clarkson’s debut single, “Before …
Read More »The Sopranos in Print
David Kelly looks at Sopranos lit in the NY Times: Literary critics and historians, neo-Marxists and theoretical feminists, postmodernists and pre-post-post-structuralists are scrambling to stake their claims to David Chase’s series. The name-dropping in these books borders on the felonious — why stop at Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese …
Read More »Jarvis On HBO
Jeff Jarvis will be our latest Blogcritic! Very exciting news. While we are getting the paperwork straightened out, we will link his excellent review of the HBO lineup: The HBO Weltanschauung – or – Why we love The Sopranos There’s a reason the return of The Sopranos is getting so …
Read More »Robot to Probe Great Pyramid On TV
This Tuesday on live TV, a small robot will explore a shaft first discovered by explorers in the 19th century.
Read More »Two From Tony
I haven’t talked about my excellent pal Tony Pierce for a while – bad move me. Today Tony has two wildly divergent pieces showing why he is a complex, unique guy. He reminds me of me in that regard, as I have mentioned before. First, he answers a reader email …
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