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Tinsley Mortimer's new reality show, High Society.

Having a shallow understanding of Tinz—and perhaps there's no other kind—became a matter of cultural literacy with her split from her high-school sweetheart of a husband, Topper, the chronicle of their sundering transformed her celebrity into notoriety, ...

From TROY PATTERSON, Slate,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Tinsley Mortimer,  The CW,  Edith Wharton,  Paris Hilton

Oscars Dialogue: Gather ye Ringwalds.

Read the rest of Slate's coverage of the 82nd Academy Awards here. I know a contingent is emerging that enjoyed the clubby old-Hollywood vibe of last night's ceremony, and to them I say: Pistols at dawn. The problem wasn't that Neil Patrick Harris' ...

From TROY PATTERSON AND DANA STEVENS, Slate,  8 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Steve Martin,  Jon Cryer,  Academy Awards,  Neil Patrick Harris,  Hugh Jackman

Oscars Dialogue: The John Hughes montage.

Read the rest of Slate's coverage of the 82nd Academy Awards here. Despite my vested interest in maintaining the patriarchy, I join you in offering a big up to Bigelow. With her shaken breath and electric eyes, she was the night's most elated—and ...

From TROY PATTERSON AND DANA STEVENS, Slate,  8 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Dolly Parton,  Matthew Broderick,  Academy Awards,  Sandra Bullock,  Sarah Jessica Parker

Bigelow's big win.

Read the rest of Slate's coverage of the 82nd Academy Awards here. I'm so glad the task of an Oscars wrapup devolves to me first, because this way what meager material the broadcast had to offer is mine to hog. So I'll grab the best bits first, pick ...

From TROY PATTERSON AND DANA STEVENS, Slate,  5 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Kathryn Bigelow,  James Cameron,  Academy Awards,  Jeff Bridges,  Debbie Allen

Let's chat about the Oscars.

Read the rest of Slate's coverage of the 82nd Academy Awards here. I like where your head's at regarding songs and scores, but wouldn't a Crazy Heart sequel be titled Crazy Heart 2: Heart Crazier? Yes, it's too bad we won't hear "The Weary Kind." ...

From TROY PATTERSON AND DANA STEVENS, Slate,  5 Mar 2010

Let's talk Oscars: The Hurt Locker is a piece of chamber music. Inglourious Basterds is epic.

Read the rest of Slate's coverage of the 82nd Academy Awards here. But let us turn to The Hurt Locker's Nicolas Chartier, ankled from the Kodak for dissing the competish in a sorry-for-the-mass-e-mail. Here are my thoughts on l'affaire Chartier: "HA-HA ...

From TROY PATTERSON AND DANA STEVENS, Slate,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Academy Awards,  Nicolas Chartier,  Mark Harris,  Miramax,  Roman Polanski

I predict Sandra Bullock wins best actress.

We pick up our Oscar conversation in that eerily quiet window when the non-thing that's the Oscars becomes most perceptible in its pure form. As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, the votes have been cast, the publicity battles waged, and the nominees are presumably ...

From TROY PATTERSON AND DANA STEVENS, Slate,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Sandra Bullock,  Academy Awards,  Los Angeles Times,  Nicolas Chartier,  Tina Fey

Leno returns to the Tonight Show.

The rebirth of the Tonight Show—its still-rebirth as sprung from the bullhead of an ungracious Jay Leno—began last night with an homage to The Wizard of Oz. Perhaps, having abetted NBC's booting of Conan O'Brien and thus tarnishing one of the greatest ...

From TROY PATTERSON, Slate,  2 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Jay Leno,  Conan O'Brien,  David Letterman,  Betty White,  Lindsey Vonn

Kim Yu-Na's performance was the climax of the Olympiad.

Yesterday afternoon, I mused on the pressing matter—the J. Press-ing matter—of the fancy-lad Ivy League look Bob Costas has affected in Vancouver. Then, last night, he switched up his game, going for a more authoritative image. In his pinstriped suit ...

From TROY PATTERSON, Slate,  26 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Ivy League,  Bob Costas,  Joannie Rochette,  Scott Hamilton,  Mao Asada

Let's put cameras in the bobsleds.

Has my Olympics fever broken or was last night's broadcast kinda dull? Women's aerials was on, but, as I've already whined, halfpipe snowboarding is far awesomer than this, its old-school cousin. Lovely Lydia Lassila ain't got nothing on illuminated ...

From TROY PATTERSON, Slate,  25 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Bob Costas,  Torah Bright,  Lydia Lassila,  CNBC,  Anne Frank

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