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...CRITIC'S PICKS: Here's your TIME reviewer's annotated Oscar ballot. But these predictions (not preferences) come with a caveat: Don't bet your bailout bundle on "expert" opinions. You'd do just as well with a Ouija board...
...after thanksgiving, my TiVo died. Because it doubles as my cable box, this meant that for the week it took to get a replacement, my TV was dead as well. This would be a tragic circumstance for most Americans. But for a TV critic, it was a blow to my livelihood. I was like a cotton farmer after a weevil infestation. I was cut off from the main pipeline of American media life...
...Theater is not created in a vacuum but rather speaks to both our individual and social conditions. Kenneth Tynan, the influential English theater critic, wrote: “No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.” For that reason, the goals of producing a show should be much larger than merely to create what happens onstage...
...Every kind of film critic was represented: the loves-it-all USA Today type, the can’t-stand-anything-but-artsy New York Times type, the bitter-because-I’d-rather-be-writing-scripts L.A. Times type, and everything in between. Those endowed with press or corporate passes blew by the long lines that grouped outside the theaters, but for once, nobody seemed to mind. Despite the wintry weather, the cinematic discourse continued on between strangers and new acquaintances unabated...
...Reading the elegiac prose of one such as Victorian art critic John Ruskin, conversely, does far more to inspire genuine environmentalism than do blind imperatives to recycle. In his memoirs, Ruskin writes of the pristine Alps, meadows, and lilac trees of his childhood, noting that these were eventually paved through by railroads and left “filthy with cigar ashes” by travelers who “knocked the paling about, roared at the cows, and tore down what branches of blossom they could reach.” Nature writing in cases like this is not mere romanticism...