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DAVID BIANCULLI

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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
Oct
1
PLAYING 'WHERE'S WALDO?,' AND 'PEACE TRAIN,' AT JON STEWART'S RALLY By Mark Bianculli
 
 
There I stood, tightly packed in a sea of people, watching some musical number or other in the opening hour of the "Rally to Restore Sanity And/or Fear," when suddenly, from behind, a man dressed as Waldo (as in "Where's Waldo?") came crowd-surfing slowly over my head. But that, believe it or not, was not the unusual part...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
26
IN THE 'TENTH INNING' OF PBS'S 'BASEBALL,' KEN BURNS PITCHES SOME FRESH HISTORY By Mark Bianculli
 
 
Let me begin this article the way I imagine Ken Burns would want me to -- with some context. In 1993, William Jefferson Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States. In the Middle East, PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a peace agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In Walpole, NH, and in New York City, filmmaker Ken Burns was putting the finishing touches on his definitive 18-hour documentary about America's pastime, Baseball. And in Philadelphia...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
30
AT THE EMMYS, THE WINNER IS... FIRST-TIME HOST JIMMY FALLON By Mark Bianculli
 
 
About twenty seconds into last night's 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC, I was dreading that it was going to be a long night. Twenty seconds later, I was on the edge of my seat laughing. And so I remained for the rest of the hilarious and energetic opening number, which seemed to validate what I've said for years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
27
PREDICTING THE EMMYS -- TAKE TWO By Mark Bianculli
 
 
"The Son Also Criticizes" takes a look at the 2010 Emmy Awards...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jan
16
GUEST BLOG #105: MARK BIANCULLI TALKS TV -- OR, THE SON ALSO CRITICIZES By Mark Bianculli
 
 
[Bianculli here -- DAVID Bianculli here, that is: I'm even more proud than usual to introduce the newest writer in our ever-expanding TV WORTH WATCHING stable: He's Mark Bianculli, my son. He grew up watching quality TV (how could he not?), was a TV critic for his college paper, and the same week I launched this website in 2007, he moved to Hollywood, hoping to write for television rather than about it. Until that happens, I've persuaded him to join us here...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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