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...that's already seen two Partridge Family movies, this month's sweeps movies revisit The Brady Bunch (twice), The Dukes of Hazzard and Diff'rent Strokes, the latter a production even Gary Coleman has refused to be associated with. (Fox hasn't made it available for screening, so this critic can only assume it's a tour de force of storytelling magic!) In part, this nostalgia vogue is a demographic no-brainer. The only thing you can say about all of today's niche-ified TV viewers is, well, they like to watch TV. But it says even more about...
...Halley said her literary training deeply affected the kind of legal scholarship that she does. "I was trained as a 'new critic,' which means that I do extremely close readings of specific texts with great openness to the possibility that they involve paradoxical framings of the problem under consideration," she said...
...turn to Stefan Kanfer's Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx (Knopf; 465 pages; $30) if you're looking for laughs. Kanfer, a former TIME critic, deserves no censure for failing to amuse with his large, serious and occasionally logy biography. For one thing, no writer could possibly explain what made Groucho Marx so funny. The printed page cannot show what he could do with a quick leap of his eyebrows, much less with his preposterous body, its upper half canted illogically forward from those scurrying legs. His voice? Let's not even...
...Media critic Jon Katz writes a column for the website Slashdot.org His most recent book is Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
...Nieman fellowship is something that every journalist dreams about and aspires to," said Don Aucoin, a television critic for The Boston Globe and future Nieman fellow...