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No Penguins on the North Pole
I'm probably way too pumped to learn that Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are crafting a Zombieland pilot for Amazon, which is scheduled to "air" in mid-April and could then go to series. Not that I...
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Game of Thrones: The North Remembers
Note from David Bushman: Mother of Mercy, intern Craig Solomon says goodbye to season three of "Game of Thrones" ..."Here comes the King in the North!" "Here comes the King in the North!" These...
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Every Demon Wants His Pound of Flesh
I'd watch anything with Lena Headey (in her company, sure, but what I mean is anything in which she appears), which explains what I was doing at a midtown Manhattan movie theater at 3 pm on Saturday,...
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"Difficult" Quiz
With a nod to my colleague Arthur Smith, here are fourteen things I learned from reading Brett Martin's Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad...
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twentysomething (Part I)
September is a melancholic time here because most of our summer interns head back to college (sad for us, at least). This year I asked my interns to leave something behind—their thoughts and opinions...
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twentysomething (Part II)
Continued from PART 1.Recent Paley Center interns continue their meditation on the state of media. Once again, the players are:Ilana Berman, senior, Boston University, studying history and...
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"The Americans" and Me
I started thinking about my Russian history class from junior year of high school recently, remembering endless days of Doctor Zhivago, a movie that took up over a month's worth of class time. In the...
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A Bat-Blog for All Ages
On October 11, the Paley Center—in conjunction with Warner Archive and New York Comic Con—will host a panel celebrating Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the animated series teaming the Caped Crusader...
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Investment Viewing: Why I’m Being Patient With Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The pilot episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was over. My roommates and I stared absently at the end credits as we tried to compose our thoughts. Did we feel overwhelmed by geeky exultation? Were we...
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Television and the Blacklist: Get Me Rewrite!
A funny thing happened to me back in December 2012: More than three years after posting this piece on venerable CBS newsman Walter Cronkite—who had just passed away—and his role on the fifties CBS-TV...
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