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Searching for "America's sexiest people" on ABC's new reality pageant -- and then ripping them a new one -- sounds like fun at first. Then the horror sets in.
By Heather Havrilesky
February 13, 2003
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Wondering just how legendary you really are? Find out instantly, just like Phil Spector!
By Heather Havrilesky
February 8, 2003
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NBC's drug-lord miniseries "Kingpin" isn't really a crude Latino rip-off of "The Sopranos," say its creators, it's ... Shakespearean! Plus: "Dragnet" -- it's about a cop.
By Carina Chocano
February 4, 2003
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Helpless, alone, rejected by female guests except Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Kimmel drifts toward the ninth circle of talk-show hell.
By Carina Chocano
January 30, 2003
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Salon columnist Carina Chocano talks about her new book, "Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?"
By Heather Havrilesky
January 28, 2003
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This year's Super Bowl ads reflect a depressed nation: We need jobs, our animals don't talk anymore and we're terrified of big butts and bad drugs. How 'bout a beer?
By Carina Chocano
January 27, 2003
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ABC's "Alias" features a butt-kicking espionage babe, awesome costumes and settings and possibly the most convoluted family drama in TV history. So why isn't it huge yet?
By Carina Chocano
January 23, 2003
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Joan Rivers is unbelievably vile and crude -- she and daughter Melissa must get their own reality show! Plus: Kelly Osbourne gives a clinic on dealing with Dad.
By Carina Chocano
January 22, 2003
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From "The Bachelorette" to "documentaries" on the Bunny Ranch, America is wallowing in boobs and butts like never before. But just how nasty do we wanna be?
By Heather Havrilesky
January 18, 2003
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In "Joe Millionaire," with its lumpen-wacky TV vision of the rich, pop culture finally faces inequality in "classless" America.
By Carina Chocano
January 15, 2003
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Yeah, "The Bachelorette" and the rest of the next-gen reality shows are the mutant offspring of deformed parents. Sometimes that's better.
By Carina Chocano
January 11, 2003
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With "Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family," PBS closes the circle on the legendary 1973 series that mesmerized the nation and prefigured reality TV.
By Carina Chocano
January 6, 2003
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Fox's absurd-yet-true office comedy "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" makes other sitcoms look as if they're die-stamped by robots. (Which they are.)
By Carina Chocano
December 12, 2002
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No major characters got whacked in the season finale of "The Sopranos." The destruction was way bigger than that.
By Carina Chocano
December 10, 2002
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On Comedy Central's "Insomniac," join stand-up comic Dave Attell on his boozy journey through a late-night world of drunks, strippers, cops, sewage workers and just plain folks.
By Carina Chocano
December 4, 2002
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No-nonsense "Dr. Phil" has struck a national nerve with his bootstrap psychology. But can he
escape the shadow of his famous patron?
By Carina Chocano
December 2, 2002
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America's fave TV family is back -- and ready to prove they can survive George W. Bush, Greta Van Susteren and whatever other horrors fate may bring them.
By Carina Chocano
November 27, 2002
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Manhattan's hit nightclub storytelling series comes to TV, minus the cocktails but with its intimate front-porch spirit intact.
By Carina Chocano
November 16, 2002
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We ask veterans of online
dating to submit their tales of ecstasy and woe
for a pair of new features: Match Made in
Heaven, and Match Made in Hell.
November 4, 2002
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Sen. Palmer is now the president, Jack has facial hair, and North Koreans are planning to nuke L.A. Hey, and where's Nina? Tick, tick, tick.
By Carina Chocano
October 29, 2002
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The Hollywood renegades at the Other Network are bringing legendary failed TV pilots to a comedy club near you. And they're better than what got on the air.
By Carina Chocano
October 24, 2002
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Bonnie Hunt discovers an unconventional path to good comedy on her extremely funny new sitcom "Life With Bonnie."
By Carina Chocano
October 22, 2002
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Hot for Prince Harry or Prince Felipe? Better learn to race cars and sail yachts, advises "Young, Sexy & Royal." And whatever you do -- don't curtsy!
By Carina Chocano
October 19, 2002
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David E. Kelley's ditsy new "girls club" is a great step backward for the legal profession, women in the workplace, San Francisco and decent TV.
By Carina Chocano
October 17, 2002
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In the WB's bizarrely entertaining "Birds of Prey," Batman has skipped town -- but his illegitimate daughter and a reshaped Batgirl are kickin' butt in New Gotham.
By Carina Chocano
October 14, 2002