Ted Cox
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Fox's 'New Amsterdam' deserves touch of immortalityMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - "New Amsterdam" is a new series about a cop who can't die, and if there's any justice in this TV world the show will last every bit as long as he does. I know it defies ...
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Bill James retrieves his wand from baseball's storage binsFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Here's an early entrant for baseball's Comeback of the Year: none other than stats guru Bill James. James, of course, changed the game with his annual "Abstracts" in th...
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Fox comes 'Unhitched'Feb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - When the Farrelly brothers, who never met a gross-out joke they didn't like, come to Fox, home of TV's crassest comedies, the caustic mixture could achieve critical mass...
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Oprah Winfrey expands her media empire into reality TVFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - Charity, we're told, should come from the heart. But in Oprah Winfrey's latest attempt to expand her television empire, it comes instead from the desire to compete -- in...
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Everything old is new again in 'quarterlife'Feb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - Blogging: That's not writing; it's gripe-writing. Apologies to Truman Capote for that line, but then again considering it's borrowed from an attack on Jack Kerouac, I ta...
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No ceremony for old starsFeb 23, 2008 10:00 pm - Along with producer Gil Cates, host Jon Stewart and his staff of writers from "The Daily Show" have had to throw together the Oscars in a hurry after the strike ended ea...
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Impossible dreamsFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - "What happens to a dream deferred?" poet Langston Hughes once mused. Yet "A Raisin in the Sun," the play that drew its title and inspiration from Hughes' poem, asks inst...
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HBO's Louis documentary misfires with betrayal themeFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - It's a story endemic to the fight game: Boxer rises to the top and makes millions, only to squander it all, then suffer a long and very public decline. HBO tells it aga...
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'Buffalo Bill' glories in fact and fictionFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend," a character famously says in John Ford's Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." PBS' redoubtable "American Experie...
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In reality, 'Top Model' looks pretty goodFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Well, you can't blame the writers' strike for "America's Next Top Model." Tyra Banks' enduring strut-and-pose competition returns for its 10th installment at 7 p.m. Wed...