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bill de blasio’s new york
Times Square: The City’s Id, Now and AlwaysThe desnudas started only the latest battle in a century-long struggle over what the crossroads of the world means to New York.
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life after reality tv
Donald Trump and Politics After Reality TVTrump’s main advantage is his truly skilled understanding of what makes for good reality television.
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Why Apple Making TV Shows Is a Bad IdeaDoes anyone believe that Apple can make the iPhone of TV shows?
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celebrity photoboming
Why You Can’t Look Away From the Affleck Nanny ScandalOuzounian’s so fascinating because she’s our modern civilian surrogate, who’s passed over to the other side of the glass.
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Oscar Isaac, From Show Me a Hero to Star WarsThe very busy actor doesn’t recommend eating before entering an X-Wing.
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the long goodbye
Why You’re Already Over Jon Stewart’s DepartureIt’s like we’re all permanently stuck on a dock waving at an ocean liner that’s set to depart sometime next week.
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Rooster McConaughey Does Not Want Your Bud LightHe’s really a Miller guy. You have no idea how much.
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Do Characters Belong to Their Fans or Their Creators?A married Han Solo, a racist Atticus Finch, and our impending canon crisis.
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The Ban on Plastic Bags vs. the Ban on Bag BansThe fight is about a lot more than how to get groceries home.
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True Detective and the Changing, Divisive Nature of the Aerial ShotPost-9/11 and post-NSA, the aerial imparts a new kind of unease, a more ambient dread.
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will it float?
Letterman Was Great, Even in the Very First Episode of Late NightIf something as groundbreaking and culturally influential as Late Night With David Letterman were to premiere today, would we recognize it right away? My initial hunch was no.
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A CSI Postmortem: What Was Great About the GoreWhen the procedural departs, it’ll take an era of TV along with it.
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across the streaming-verse
How Amazon Became the Moneyball NetworkIt’s turned last-dibs status into a competitive advantage.
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Guacanomics
Have You Eaten Your Last Avocado?The ubiquitous — and endangered — food may soon be a luxury item.
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purge-watching
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summer movie preview 2015
The Summer of Tentpole AmnesiaThey’re a chance for producers to shout, “Do-over!” after some particularly egregious past creative misstep.
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the second comedy boom
The Unexpected Resurgence of the Comedy DuoKey and Peele, Tina and Amy, Broad City, Fred and Carrie.
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vulture lists
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Why Did Serena Go Straight to VOD?Serena is interesting because it’s a much rarer artifact than a really bad movie — it’s an incompetent movie.
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Why Michael Keaton Lost: The Academy Doesn’t Love Comeback StoriesMichael Keaton’s loss is not that surprising given Oscar’s history.
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The Fantasy of the Perfect ResponseWe’re actually not one zinger away from the ultimate takedown.
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How to Fix the Oscars: Abolish NominationsThe nominations still provide actual suspense — which is why we should announce them on Oscar night.
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book excerpt
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How to Fix the Oscars: Seeded Nominations!Imagine the breadth of gamification and intrigue and ingenuity it would make possible.
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Does Retweeting Your Own Praise Make You a Monster?“If you need someone to tell you not to RT praise, you’re a monster.”
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The Sony Hack Might Have Killed a Certain Kind of SatireIf you’re worried about anything disappearing, worry about the desire to push something just a little farther for the sake of being funnier.
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The Real Lesson of the Sony Hack: Good Movies Are Hard to Make!Any producer who can get films like No Country for Old Men or There Will Be Blood off the ground is entitled to a kind of artistic clemency.
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future of movies
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sexpositions
The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Sex SceneMovies used to be the one place in the whole wide world where adults could watch other adults having sex.
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Bill Cosby Shows Why We Need Off-Limits JokesSome earth needs to be scorched and some envelopes need to be pushed.
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digital culture
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digital culture
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you see dead people
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With Interstellar, Christopher Nolan Gives Up on MysteryAll those black holes have sucked all the mystery out of Nolan’s world.
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Why Canadians Are So Upset Over the CBC Sex ScandalThe terrible allegations aside, the scandal represents a further undermining of a treasured — possibly the treasured — national cultural institution.
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Gone Girl Is the Ultimate Truther MovieNick, the patsy in Gone Girl, is nearly buried alive under an avalanche of so-called proof.
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From the Archives: New York Magazine’s 2010 Dr. Luke ProfileThe producer has been accused of sexual assault by pop star Kesha.
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Why Was Kramer vs. Kramer the Top-Grossing Movie of 1979?It’s either a fascinating anomaly or a last stand against the impending economic forces that turned blockbuster movies into toy factories.
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Free Yourselves From the Shackles of Spoilers! Life Is Too Short.Spoil everything. Give away all the endings and, while you’re at it, reveal all the beginnings and middles, too.
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What Comes After Matthew McConaughey’s Comeback? The StillbackThe stillback happens when you stop making quirky, offbeat, attention-grabbing choices and start making cautious, predictable, attention-maintaining choices.
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the streaming-tv gold rush
The Age of the Streaming TV AuteurIt’s where indie-minded filmmakers are suddenly in demand again.
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vulture essays
Why Seth Rogen Is More Serious Than Woody AllenCultural essays about the death of adulthood are often Trojan horses for a different complaint: the death of seriousness.
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