Category Archives: Pop Culture

bigelow’s big night

By Mike Sadowski | Published: March 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
Has anyone ever had a better Oscar night than Kathryn Bigelow? The only thing she didn’t do during the four-hour telecast Sunday was cure cancer. Wait, did she? In the span of four hours, consider the following: –She watched and smiled ear-to-ear and clapped profusely while her little movie about an American Army bomb defusing team in Iraq [...]
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Oscar picks not as hard as usual — 10 movies or not

By Mike Sadowski | Published: March 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Making Oscar picks is hard. Kind of like how hard it’s going to be for Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin to make a cohesive, thoughtful joke Sunday night. First, you have to see all the movies. Then you have to formulate your own opinions on those movies. Then you watch all the other awards shows to see [...]
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Final Nip/Tuck thoughts …

By Mike Sadowski | Published: March 4, 2010 | 0 Comments
Oscar preview tomorrow! Some lingering thoughts from the Nip/Tuck finale (all spoilers, stop RIGHT NOW if you haven’t seen it yet and proceed right to the screen shot of Jim and Pam): --I liked it. There were only two ways the show could possibly end. Either Sean and Christian would hope the first flight to Vermont to [...]
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The end of Nip/Tuck

By Mike Sadowski | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
It won’t be as big as when Lost ends in May. It’s nowhere near the level of a Seinfeld or Friends finale. It won’t even be as big as a Two and a Half Men series finale. But when Nip/Tuck ends tonight after six tumultuous seasons that redefined how TV — cable stations specifically -- could construct a primetime [...]
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Buy a T-shirt! And the hottest DWTS cast. Ever.

By Mike Sadowski | Published: March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
One quick plug before we roll into a super-sized edition of PopRox to try and make up for slacking lately: Buy a T-shirt! Now! Seriously, we’re selling these T-shirts in conjunction with the Great Pocono Weight Race. They’re $15, and all the proceeds will go to the Diabetic Education Program at Pocono Medical Center. We’re trying to [...]
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Our salute to the Crazy Friend

By Mike Sadowski | Published: March 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
There is a tradition in the TV sitcom formula called the Crazy Friend. Crazy Friend rarely gets anything better than fourth-or-fifth billing, if they even make the opening credits at all. Sometimes it’s a neighbor (Wilson from Home Improvement), sometimes it’s a classmate (Millhouse in Simpsons) or it could be a co-worker (Morgan from Chuck). They have about [...]
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Leno-Conan fire still flaming

By Mike Sadowski | Published: February 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
Stay off those roads if you can! You’d probably feel bad for Conan O’Brien until you remember that he’s being paid a hefty sum to stay away from television. Good for him for figuring out how to get to his fans, and shame on NBC for not adding a social networking clause to the agreement it [...]
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too early to start crowing avatar?

By Mike Sadowski | Published: February 22, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’m in the process finally of making my top 20 movies for 2009. I’ll have it finalized in the next two days or so. Today’s links: The coronation ceremony for Avatar as Oscar’s best picture may have been a bit premature. It hasn’t added a major award since the Golden Globes in January, losing to Inglourious Basterds [...]
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selling toys more important than selling movies

By Mike Sadowski | Published: February 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Things to thing of so you don’t have to think of a press conference the press isn’t invited to … We all thought it. We all figured this was how Hollywood worked. Now, we know for sure Hollywood doesn’t care about its movies, only its merchandising. Disney is putting anything that can’t sell a toy on [...]
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the tv bubble

By Mike Sadowski | Published: February 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
It won’t be until May that we start getting a look at next year’s TV schedules. But this is the time when network executives start getting ideas in their heads about what shows they’re keeping and what shows they’re getting rid of. The CW made some early pick-ups yesterday to make sure fans knew shows like Vampire [...]
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