Quantcast
Channel: Linda Holmes
Browsing all 67 articles
Browse latest View live

That Was A Great Blackout Last Night

Great blackout last night, right?It's been clear for some time that substantially more people watch the Super Bowl than have the slightest interest in watching the actual football game. That's why...

View Article



Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Get Severance: Interview With An Iron

Wednesday, Hasbro announced that it was welcoming a new member of the Monopoly-token family. And because it asked the Internet, it wound up with a cat. (For whatever reason, the Internet was not...

View Article

Ten Clues That The Zombie Outbreak Being Announced On Your Television Is Not...

As reported on Tuesday's Morning Edition, KRTV in Great Falls, Mont., was apparently the victim of hackers who broke in and broadcast a warning of attacking zombies. The station now says that it was a...

View Article

Rubio's Water Bottle And The Authenticity Craving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w2A0qsgurU

View Article

The Oscars Broadcast, Zooming Way Past Cheeky To Land Squarely On Crass

If you like Argo (which won Best Picture), the movie Chicago (which made a couple of appearances) and jokes about women (which just kept coming), you probably had a substantially better night than the...

View Article


Here We Go Again: Leno, Fallon, And Why The Late-Night Wars Are So Boring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzVdv6V5Vshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXnh4tYpA-Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-URl9F17Y

View Article

Viewer Discretion: Deciding When To Look Away

I was out of the house, as it happens, for most of the first half of yesterday's Louisville-Duke game, and when I got home and looked at Twitter, before I turned on the TV, there was a huge stack of...

View Article

Thank G-O-O-D-N-E-S-S: The National Spelling Bee Adds Meaning

As Eyder Peralta reported last night, the National Spelling Bee has made a big change to its rules.For the first time, the written (or computerized) test students use to qualify for the semifinals and...

View Article


Boston's Art Museums Offer Free Admission To Provide A 'Place Of Respite'

UPDATE, 4:08 p.m.: In addition to the institutions mentioned below, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has announced that admission will be free on Wednesday, April 17. At least two art museums in...

View Article


Why Angelina Jolie's Op-Ed Matters

Pop culture does not mean celebrity culture; I have perhaps said this more often than anyone you're going to meet. Who dates, who gets a divorce, who has a tantrum, who has surreptitious photos snapped...

View Article

Comikaze: Not Just The Other Comic Convention

You may be familiar with the San Diego Comic-Con, a constantly expanding convention for fans that started as a niche event for comic-book nerds and is now a sprawling pop-culture event.You may not be...

View Article

As Trailers Eat Up Movie Time, Theaters And Studios Squabble Over Shortening...

Here's a question: If you go to the movies and the scheduled showtime is, say, 7:30, when do you actually expect the movie to start? If you said 7:30, you go to very unusual screenings. If you said...

View Article

When Your Data Is Your Currency, What Does Your Privacy Cost?

There was considerable mouth-dropping from publications such as The New York Times at initial reports this week that NSA programs are gathering both telephone records and information gleaned from large...

View Article


In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA, A Little Bit, With Reservations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx7TE7fCkrk

View Article

Why Paula Deen Can't Be A 'Food Network Star'

It's not the least bit surprising that Paula Deen lost her gig on The Food Network — and you don't have to believe she's a terrible person to know it. All you have to do is watch Food Network Star, the...

View Article


'Sharknado' Dares To Ask: Is It Going To Rain Giant Man-Eating Sharks?

If you have a Twitter account, there's an excellent chance you already know about Sharknado, SyFy's meteorological-marine horror movie that premiered last night. When I tell you that a lot of people...

View Article

20 Really Great Royal Baby Titles For Classy Parents

Look, it's possible that I don't completely understand how British titles work. But it's 100 percent true that Prince William is also called Baron Carrickfergus. (You may Google that. I'll wait.)Now...

View Article


Toronto International Film Festival, Days One And Two

Two days into the Toronto International Film Festival, I'm 10 films in. We'll talk more about all of these later, but it seemed only fair to share some basic impressions, since I'm certainly logging...

View Article

A Toronto Film Chat, From Two Jake Gyllenhaals To Three Daniel Radcliffes

Bob Mondello and I took a break from our time at the Toronto International Film Festival today for a chat withAll Things Consideredand host Audie Cornish.

View Article

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 Article
Browsing all 67 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images