DAVID BIANCULLI

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2011
Feb
23
 
 
When a good pitcher relies too often on his best pitch and telegraphs its delivery, that fast ball, curve or slider loses much of its effectiveness. The same loss can happen on TV comedies when the people in power -- writers, producers, network executives -- play too often to a popular character's quirkiness...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Feb
16
 
 
The CBS eye got a little egg on it Wednesday when the network and David Letterman learned they apparently had been misled by someone who said actress Lindsay Lohan would appear on the Thursday, Feb 17 The Late Show with David Letterman to read the Top Ten list. Here's the correction from Letterman's production company... and our own list of other people who ALSO won't be appearing on The Late Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Feb
11
 
 
A chemistry course that puts an equal emphasis on proper uses of commas and periods as on the periodic chart is part of a program that has helped lift graduation rates much higher at a Massachusetts high school. And at an Illinois high school, starting students' days with physical education has raised their heart rates and, as a result, their grades in the six years since the program was started...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Feb
9
 
 
The founder and editor of this site, under a different context, recently told me I write about old people a lot. I stipulate that fact, with no reservations. So it should not surprise him, or anyone else who has read my earlier interpretations of TV's Dead Sea Scrolls, when I start here by reflecting on the long-ago days when sponsors controlled what television viewers saw -- and didn't see...