question of the day: How much can — or should — we gag celebrity press?
A British judge has granted a worldwide gag order to protect the privacy of a misbehaving celebrity. Enforceability aside, is this a good idea?
questions
question of the day: Why hasn’t blu-ray caught on?
And is it too late, with streaming more convenient than ever?
question of the day: What are you doing with all the time you’re saving by *not* consuming all the entertainments on offer?
Never watch TV? Fast-forward through the ads? Skip crap movies? Avoid time-wasting video games? Great! So how are you filling all your spare time?
question of the day: Do you follow TV networks or TV shows (or both)?
Between DVR, TV on DVD, and on-demand, and downloading, it’s often possible to be a big fan of a television show and be unaware of what network airs it. Does that matter?
question of the weekend: What is your favorite ice cream?
Warm weather is upon us, and now come the urgent decisions of our time: What flavor of ice cream to choose? If you get the multi-scoop option, do you go for all the same flavor, or do you break it up? Cone or cup?
question of the day: Has there ever been — and can there ever be — a positive depiction in movies or on TV of an accountant or tax auditor?
To most Americans, “April 15” has a ring of terror to it. So is it any wonder that in American movies and TV it’s almost impossible to find positive depictions of people who deal with high finance, or — heaven forfend — of an IRS auditor…
question of the day: Would banning time-travel stories make our TV healthier?
They apparently won’t be getting the Doctor Whos in China, where censors have all but banned time-travel stories. WTF? Or so crazy it just might work?
question of the day: Why are Christian movies so awful?
Why should a subset of American culture that dominates the way evangelical Christianity does be so insecure and defensive in its entertainments?
question of the day: What movies (or other entertainments) do a good job of sending up high fantasy?
The awfulness that is Your Highness intends to be a sendup of high fantasy but mostly just engages the clichés of genre and embellishes them with a few swear words and bong hits. What other movies (or books, or TV shows, etc) get it right?
question of the day: Is ‘American Idol’ sexist and racist?
Or is the rap unfair for reasons that I can’t appreciate because I don’t watch the show? If it is indeed racist and sexist, how could the show overcome that and still be popular with a nation for whom sexism and racism is seemingly entrenched?
