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ABC Drops Adam Lambert, and CBS Picks Him Up

Two days after giving a sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards, the singer Adam Lambert found himself abruptly dropped by one network morning show and just as abruptly booked on another. The latest on the arts, coverage of live ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Adam Lambert,  American Idol,  Dick Clark,  Ryan Seacrest

The Adam Lambert Fallout: Were You Not Entertained?

We didn’t get to hear much of his vocal exuberance — but given the technical glitches that riddled the whole show, there was no way Adam was going to get his high notes heard in the detail they deserve. So he was smart to go for spectacle rather than ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Adam Lambert,  Kris Allen

'Curb Your Enthusiasm': The Other 'Seinfeld' Finale

It’s not that it didn’t work because the characters were revealed to be selfish and shallow and awful human beings. We all already knew that they were. That was part of the joke, particularly in the later seasons. It didn’t work because Larry clearly ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Larry David,  Michael Richards,  Caryn James,  New York Times Company,  Time Magazine

Proud to Be an American: Remembering the 2009 American Music Awards

Matt Sayles/Associated Press Lady Gaga performs onstage at the American Music Awards on Sunday. How will history record the pageant that was the 37th annual American Music Awards? Will the event, which took place on Sunday night in Los Angeles, be ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Taylor Swift,  Adam Lambert,  Jennifer Lopez,  Whitney Houston

Nickelodeon’s Stepchild, Eager for More Love

Andy Samberg appearing as a guest star on “Yo Gabba Gabba!” The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. THESE days, even monsters have handlers. On a recent Monday ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nickelodeon Network,  Andy Samberg,  Brad Pitt,  Beacon Theater,  Christian Jacobs

Film: Opening Wide His (Repaired) Heart

IT was nearly midnight in an upscale Atlanta hotel room, and Robin Williams was decompressing after a show at the nearby Fox Theater. Reclining in his dimly lighted suite, he was weary but in good spirits; the mechanical key hidden in his back was ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robin Williams,  John Travolta,  HBO,  Eric Idle,  Liberace

Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll

Readers who love the short stories of Flannery O’Connor as much as I do would be well-advised to check out this winner of the 1962 National Book Award: Chief among the jurors that year was Gore Vidal, who led his fellows to choose this neglected ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Flannery O'Connor,  Gore Vidal,  Vladimir Nabokov,  Katherine Anne Porter,  F. Scott Fitzgerald

F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel

While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself. The Chicago Tribune reported that Mr. Terkel, the ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Studs Terkel,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Chicago Tribune,  City University of New York,  Paul Robeson

Mother and Child Reunion Onstage

Rhea Perlman can still remember when she realized her daughter Lucy DeVito was no longer her little girl. For years Ms. Perlman had bought her daughter’s clothes. But when she was 12, Ms. DeVito declared that she’d had enough of the Gap and wanted to ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rhea Perlman,  Lucy DeVito,  Delia Ephron,  Nora Ephron,  Bill Clinton

Ken Ober, Host of ‘Remote Control’ on TV, Dies at 52

Ken Ober, a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show “Remote Control,” was found dead on Sunday in his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 52. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia ...

From DAVE ITZKOFF, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MTV,  Bob Barker,  Van Toffler

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