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Picking on MTV is a little easy. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of television: no respect. Those who remember when it actually included music gave up on the thing years ago. But just as the Golden Globes trot out some previously-beloved-but-now-dusty…
by Katy St. Clair
January 27, 2016
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As people batten down their mid-century, brown-shingle hatches for El Niño, they'll be eagerly anticipating some interesting rehashes. This winter, we've got the new X-Files miniseries (Jan. 24, Fox), Fuller House on Netflix (Feb. 26), Sesame Street on HBO (Jan.…
by Katy St. Clair
January 20, 2016
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The Food Network is a juggernaut, and I mean that in the strictest meaning of the word. "Juggernaut" derives from jagganath, a 19th-century word for a roving Hindu temple on wheels; a Popemobile for Vishnu, in other words. The ornately…
by Katy St. Clair
January 20, 2016
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One learns in the TV game that one mustn't get too excited when one sees something produced by someone who has previously worked on a show that one loved. One must brace oneself for disappointment. One must set the DVR,…
by Katy St. Clair
January 13, 2016
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Surely Seth MacFarlane must have stock in marijuana futures. It's hard to tell if adult primetime cartoons are created solely with the very stoned in mind, but his Family Guy and Ted franchises are chockablock with gags and cut-tos rigged…
by Katy St. Clair
January 6, 2016
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"It's not just, like, a regular selfie," says my 16-year-old niece. "You have to pose for the picture in the moment ... like, thought to thought, expression to expression." She is describing why she likes Snapchat better than Facebook. Your…
by Katy St. Clair
December 30, 2015
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James Best (b. 1926) This guy not only appeared on one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes ("Jess-Belle"), but he popularized one of my favorite put-downs, "dipstick." He's best known for portraying Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of…
by Katy St. Clair
December 23, 2015
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Anyone who knows me knows that my favorite developmentally-disabled clients are usually people with Down's Syndrome. So this column is going to be opinionated, heavily biased, and entirely subjective. A&E has a new reality TV show called Born This Way,…
by Katy St. Clair
December 16, 2015
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Have you ever seen model Hannah Davis, the host of Project Runway: Junior? She is engaged to Derek Jeter, although I'm sure whatever snickering that causes is along the lines of, "She is so out of his league." (Get it?…
by Katy St. Clair
December 9, 2015
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It probably doesn't need to be said, but the Jurassic Park movies were terrible. Yes, I know I am reaching way back into the past here, but the reason they sucked is pertinent to my theme this week: the cognitive…
by Katy St. Clair
December 2, 2015
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The rise of the celebrity chef hasn't simply given us sub-par cookware sets on QVC. No, it has also given us celebrity-chef gossip, and in some cases, celebrity-chef public shaming. In the case of Paula Deen, close scrutiny of a…
by Katy St. Clair
November 25, 2015
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