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Louis C.K., the Jerk-Off Genius | ARTICLE

Greatest moment ever on Louie: the scene last season where he torments his daughters by singing along in the car to the Who's "Who Are You." It isn't just a pithy chorus or two – he does...
June 25, 2012 1:00 PM ET
'Dallas': The Original Sinner Returns | ARTICLE

Damn, it's good to have J.R. Ewing back. As the ruthless oil baron of Dallas, he was the original dashing scumbag arch-villain, on the original prime-time soap. Played by the great Larry Hagman, J.R. was Tony Soprano...
June 11, 2012 2:40 PM ET
Americana | ALBUM REVIEW

It's been too long since Neil Young has gathered his grizzled cronies in Crazy Horse for one of their fraternal freak-guitar slopfests. Americana is the first full-on Horse album since the underrated 1996 gem, Broken Arrow....
June 5, 2012 12:55 AM ET
Howard Stern's Crazy 'America's Got Talent' Gamble | ARTICLE

It's a question that never gets old: What is Howard Stern thinking? He's spent decades building his own private empire as the King of All Media. So what does it mean now that he's a judge on...
May 21, 2012 12:10 PM ET
'Mad Men' Star Jessica Pare on Stealing Don Draper's Heart | ARTICLE

Who is Don Draper? That's the eternal question on Mad Men, but could the answer be as simple as "Zou Bisou Bisou"? As Don's sultry new French-Canadian bride, Megan, Jessica Paré has been knocking everybody's socks off...
May 18, 2012 4:05 PM ET
Dim All the Lights for Donna Summer | BLOG ENTRY

Dim all the lights for Donna Summer, the disco diva who lost her battle with cancer today at 63. She was more than just one of the Seventies' mightiest voices; she was the artist who exemplified...
May 17, 2012 7:10 PM ET
Trespassing | ALBUM REVIEW

So here's the great pop album everybody was hoping Adam Lambert would make, ever since he ran wild on American Idol three years ago. It wasn't just Glambert's dynamite-with-a-laser-beam voice that got him into our national...
May 15, 2012 12:25 AM ET
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes Charge on 'Veep' | BLOG ENTRY

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in Veep. She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play Veep would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common...
May 11, 2012 11:00 AM ET
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes Charge on 'Veep' | ARTICLE

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in Veep. She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play Veep would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common...
May 11, 2012 11:00 AM ET
Namaste and Gratitude to Adam Yauch | BLOG ENTRY

Namaste to Adam Yauch, the guy who taught me and so many other fans the word. It wasn't just this Beastie Boy's wild-style humor and gruff voice that made him one of the music world's most beloved...
May 4, 2012 6:20 PM ET
The Feud Between Chevy Chase and 'Community' | ARTICLE

Is this the end of Chevy? People have been asking this question for as long as Chevy Chase has been around. Even when he was burning through his one and only season on Saturday Night Live, they...
April 27, 2012 11:30 AM ET
The Feud Between Chevy Chase and 'Community' | BLOG ENTRY

Is this the end of Chevy? People have been asking this question for as long as Chevy Chase has been around. Even when he was burning through his one and only season on Saturday Night...
April 27, 2012 11:30 AM ET
Blunderbuss | ALBUM REVIEW

On the excellent single "Love Interruption," Jack White sings, "I want love to roll me over slowly/Stick a knife inside me/And twist it all around." Ask and ye shall receive, Jack. By the end of Blunderbuss, the...
April 24, 2012 12:30 AM ET
The Power of Lena Dunham's 'Girls' | BLOG ENTRY

Can anyone touch Lena Dunham for sheer cringe power? As the writer, director and star of HBO's Girls, the 25-year-old comic auteur brilliantly sums up the miseries of youth: drugs, diseases, abortions, disastrous jobs, worse sex, doing...
April 13, 2012 11:55 AM ET
Pulp Make Triumphant U.S. Return at Radio City Music Hall | BLOG ENTRY

Well, that was excellent. Pulp played New York’s Radio City Music Hall last night, the first American gig of the reunion tour they began almost a year ago, and the first time the legendary Britpop fops have...
April 11, 2012 12:55 PM ET
Season of the Imp: Peter Dinklage Owns the Sword-and-Sex 'Game of Thrones' | BLOG ENTRY

"Death is so boring," Tyrion Lannister says with a sigh early on in the new season of Game of Thrones. But that just means he sees too much of it. Indeed, you barely get a minute in...
March 29, 2012 3:00 PM ET
'Mad Men' Returns: Who Knew Don Draper Was a True Believer? | BLOG ENTRY

When we last saw Don Draper, he was in bed with a woman he barely knew. And while in many ways that might seem like a typical day at the office for this guy, this woman was...
March 19, 2012 1:45 PM ET
Ssss | ALBUM REVIEW

Talk about a collaboration that had to happen: Vince Clarke was the original songwriter for Depeche Mode, until he split over creative differences. While he racked up synth-pop hits with Yaz and Erasure, Martin Gore took over...
March 13, 2012 12:20 AM ET
'Game Change' and Politics as Reality TV | BLOG ENTRY

There's a great scene toward the end of HBO's Game Change, the controversial and shamelessly entertaining movie about Sarah Palin and the 2008 presidential campaign, starring Julianne Moore as the Wasilla Windbag. A few of John McCain's...
March 2, 2012 4:35 PM ET
In Memory of the Cute One: Davy Jones' Greatest Musical Moments | BLOG ENTRY

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English...
February 29, 2012 4:20 PM ET