Latest articles by Kevin Fallon
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Oscars 2012: Is there any way The Artist could lose?
opinion The black-and-white silent film has been steamrolling through awards season, racking up nearly every trophy enroute to the Academy's Best Picture honor
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Glee's season premiere: Is the show back on track?
feature After a third season that repulsed critics and lost millions of viewers, Glee tries to woo back exasperated fans with a cast shake-up and a split storyline
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American Horror Story: The 'scariest thing on television'?
opinion Glee creator Ryan Murphy's new psycho-sexual thriller — packed with disturbing imagery and graphic spooks — seems to be the exact opposite of Glee
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Mad Men's ending revealed: Is Matthew Weiner's plan satisfying?
The Explainer The creator of the retro AMC drama confesses that he knows how the series will conclude — with a flashforward to modern day
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Why this year's Oscars will be the least snooty ever
The Explainer Finally, the Academy seems to realize that box-office success isn't a disqualifying factor
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Why TV networks should stop casting big-name stars
feature A well-known name just isn't a guarantee of small-screen glory
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WATCH: The best and worst speeches in Oscar history
feature Take a video trip down memory lane...
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Will Michelle Williams' 'sexy' GQ cover help her Oscar chances?
opinion The My Week With Marilyn star and Best Actress hopeful turns her demure "pixie-mom persona" on its head with an arguably strategic cover shoot
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Glee's Michael Jackson tribute: 'Unbelievably awful'?
The Explainer New Directions pays homage to the King of Pop, and critics seize the opportunity to quote one of the episode's many Jackson songs: It was "Bad"
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Beyonce gives birth: The mass hysteria
feature Mom and dad reportedly spend more than $1 million on hospital security as the blogosphere hyperbolically welcomes "the chosen one" into the world
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The Mindy Project is the best TV show you're not watching
feature The often-overlooked Fox sitcom has quietly grown into one of the funniest, sharpest, and most self-assured series on TV
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7 reasons Mad Men's season premiere is 'insanely riveting'
feature A long 17 months after its discombobulating season four finale, AMC's drama finally returns Sunday night. Here's why the new episode is worth the wait
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Did Glee do Whitney Houston's songs justice?
opinion The Fox musical series honored the late music icon by tackling her notoriously hard-to-sing hits, including "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
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Bridesmaids: An Oscar contender?
opinion Though Academy voters typically eschew raunchy R-rated comedies, Kristen Wiig's hit film is emerging as a dark-horse awards season contender
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7 ways to fix the Oscars
The Explainer Another year, another Academy Awards telecast trashed by critics. From scrapping the host to serving cocktails to celebs, a collection of proposed Oscar improvements
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Does HBO's Girls actually appeal more to old men?
feature Many fans assume the hit show about female twenty-somethings ropes in an audience of female twenty-somethings. Instead, most viewers look like the characters' dads
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The Artist: Does a dog deserve an Oscar?
feature Man's best friend arguably delivers Hollywood's best performance this year — but Academy rules prevent him from taking home a trophy
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Mad Men's quiet finale: A disappointing end to season five?
opinion Critics are split on the moody, choppy final episode of the AMC drama's action-packed season, which leaves Don Draper pondering the question "Are you alone?"
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The 'incredibly impressive' Dark Knight Rises trailer: 5 talking points
feature Catwoman channels the 99 percent in an official preview clip that has critics buzzing with glee
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Is 2 Broke Girls really 'racist'?
feature Things get heated at a press conference for the hit sitcom when a critic asks if there are plans to make its stereotyped minority characters any less offensive
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Mad Men without Peggy: Still worth watching?
opinion Rumor has it that Elisabeth Moss, who plays proto-feminist copywriter Peggy Olsen, is leaving the hit AMC drama for good, sending fans and critics into mourning
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'Zou Bisou Bisou': The scoop on the bizarre French song from the Mad Men premiere
feature Don Draper's new wife performs a competely unexpected burlesque routine, immediately earworming a '60s French song into fans' heads. What was that ditty, anyway?
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Jaguar vs. Mad Men: How the company is dealing with the show's unflattering portrayal
feature AMC's drama has built much of its season around a Jaguar plotline — highlighting unreliable vehicles and lecherous car execs — and the automaker is feeling the pain
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Why John Carter flopped: 6 theories
feature The bloated $250 million sci-fi epic tanked at the box office this weekend, grossing a meager $30.6 million and finishing behind The Lorax. What went wrong?
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