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2012
Feb
27
 
 
The Best Picture Oscar Sunday night, awarded to The Artist, was a bold nod to Hollywood's past, and to its half-century of work in black and white. Amazingly, it was the first silent-film win since the first Oscar awards in 1929...Television left black and white behind in the mid-'60s and has never gone back -- but TV has an equally honored foundation and history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Feb
17
 
 
With the 24-hour media buzz always on, the thirty-minute series often seems the perfect slice of time to get in and get out of a television serial. ...Showtime's dark comedy "House of Lies" is halfway through its first season, and it's a half-hour express train, compressing the speed of modern life into plutonium-dense show that's as fast as it is funny and smart...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Feb
3
 
 
BOSTON -- Make a casual check into the all-time most watched television broadcasts, and you'll quickly find that about half of them are Super Bowls. And the focus is, once again, on the Boys from Boston. This modern American spectacle has it all: brute force, high-flying athletic ability, luxury sports palaces, dolled-up cheerleaders and, this year, Madonna. The only thing left out are the caged, lip-smacking lions. This year, the New England Patriots go for their fourth title of the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick era, and the buzz here in Boston has been double-edged, even a little ambivalent...