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The Insider’s love affair with television developed relatively late in life. For four Air Force brats who spent three formative years in Germany, English-language TV was often unavailable. And it would be years before a sense of irony would develop to make hearing Tonto address the Lone Ranger with ...
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Filed under: Broadcast, Saturday Night Live, Grey's Anatomy, The Wire, Print Edition, Life, Project Runway, Life on Mars, Lost, Insider, Good Morning America, The View, Cupid, Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, 24, Two and a Half Men, Supernatural, NCIS, Prison Break, Bones, David Letterman, Everybody Loves Raymond, Veronica Mars, Brotherhood, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Lone Ranger, WCBS-TV, Police Squad
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The Insider is no Cybill Shepherd, but she can now brag that she, too, has made out with Elvis. Not the thin Elvis or the fat Elvis, but the four-legged Elvis who was evicted all too early from “Greatest American Dog,” the underappreciated spin CBS put on reality programming last summer. THE PERSONAL...
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The evening started with a mad post-work dash to the International Press Freedom Awards dinner, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 18th annual benefit. The event raised almost $2.25 million last Tuesday and reminded all the working press there of just how good we have it in this country—cutbacks,...
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The Insider is not about give up her TV. Indeed, she feels about her remote control what the late Charlton Heston felt about his right to wield a rifle: You’ll have to pry it from her cold, dead hands. One look at her week’s worth of prime-time entertainment appointment viewing and The Insider’s best...
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Sun, Oct 26 2008
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Filed under: Broadcast, FX, Fox, ABC, HBO, CBS, NBC, AMC, The CW, Print Edition, Insider, USA
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The Insider has long had a soft spot in her heart and on her funny bone for comedian Jeffrey Ross, so she was starting this season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” with something she usually didn’t have: a predetermined rooting interest. Then fate, and partner Edyta Slewinska’s fingernail, intervened...
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An honest-to-goodness family thrives at “One Tree Hill.” The CW’s sudsy and often heart-wrenching drama has created real history and roots in Wilmington, N.C., the youthful coastal town where it is filmed. The EUE Screen Gems studio drew the cast and crew of “Hill” to Wilmington and holds a number of...
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The Insider returned from the “Fringe” premiere party Monday night in Manhattan no wiser about how Fox’s big-bet series from J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman looks. But this she can tell you: Everybody looks great where the glow of the Big Apple after dark meets manmade otherworldly lights...
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Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! The Insider will hold her head up higher and stand a little taller the next time a so-called friend pooh-poohs her obsession with “Big Brother,” an obsession not unknown to faithful readers. It turns out she’s part of CBS’ biggest online experience. Bigger than “CSI,” even...
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Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! The Insider will hold her head up higher and stand a little taller the next time a so-called friend pooh-poohs her obsession with “Big Brother,” an obsession not unknown to faithful readers. It turns out she’s part of CBS’ biggest online experience. Bigger than “CSI,” even...
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Quote of the Week “Whoa! Whoooooa! What time is it? Is this morning? Geeeez.” —Actor Sean William Scott, sitting in as Kelly Ripa’s guest co-host on “Live With Regis and Kelly” Aug. 7, while watching a bikinied audience member shadow-dance behind the summer travel trivia game screen. Boob Tubing The...