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  • The importance of being humiliated

    "American Idol" is back -- which means more Simon Cowell wisecracks, more tone-deaf Mariah Carey covers, more undermedicated Pacino impressions.
    By Aaron Kinney January 22, 2003

  • A front-row seat at war

    HBO's "Live From Baghdad" is the story of one of live journalism's finest hours -- and a cautionary tale for an increasingly docile press.
    By Gary Kamiya December 7, 2002

  • Like "Wild Kingdom," with hot tubs

    Forget the small talk, the easy gags, the relationships. Contestants on "ElimiDATE" -- the best dating show on TV -- just want to get it on.
    By Mark Athitakis September 12, 2002

  • Sex, death and other family matters

    HBO's "Six Feet Under" ends its second season with a series of soap-opera devices -- but refuses to preach, lie or moralize about its most painful subject: Family life.
    By Laura Miller June 5, 2002

  • Scenes from the class struggle on Long Island

    Barbara Kopple's "The Hamptons" offers a dishy, surprisingly soft-focus vision of the summer playground for America's elite and those who want to be them.
    By Carina Chocano June 1, 2002

  • The awful truth

    "Local News," a probing five-part PBS documentary on a Charlotte, N.C., TV station, is a bleak look at a possibly unsalvageable institution.
    By Charles Taylor October 9, 2001

  • How not to understand the enemy

    A joint Discovery Channel-BBC documentary on terrorism fails to provide the insight Americans so desperately need.
    By Eric Boehlert September 20, 2001

  • Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk

    Wanna talk about the Three Stooges? Soitainly!
    By Joyce Millman April 17, 2000

  • Men II Boyz

    The new reality series "Making the Band" exposes the emasculating truth about boy bands.
    By Joyce Millman April 3, 2000

  • Airheads

    Beneath all the retro stereotypes and bogus "you go, girl!" feminism, Oxygen's core message to American women is: Keep shopping!
    By Joyce Millman February 22, 2000

  • Rock 'n' roll will never die

    Lennon and McCartney come together in VH1's reunion fantasy "Two of Us." Plus: Never mind the bollocks, he-e-e-re's Johnny (Rotten).
    By Joyce Millman January 31, 2000

  • We are family

    You don't have to be Italian for "The Sopranos" to hit home.
    By Joyce Millman January 14, 2000

  • Twenty ways the '90s changed television

    From "Twin Peaks" to "The X-Files" to "The Simpsons" (O.J. included), TV broke ground and rules in the last decade of the century.
    By Joyce Millman December 22, 1999

  • In with the out crowd

    NBC's affectionate "Freaks and Geeks" lets high school nobodys have their day.
    By Joyce Millman September 24, 1999
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