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Sight unseen

The fall TV season flies without pilots
Hollywood writers are no longer walking picket lines, but their 14-week shutdown of TV production reverberates through the 2008-’09 fall season.

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | September 11, 2008

Adam raised an Eve

Why Patti Scialfa matters
Why do some Bruce Springsteen fans have such a big problem with Patti Scialfa?

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | November 14, 2007

Intimacy issues

Pushing Daisies hides its feelings; HBO can’t get it up
There’s a fine line between “whimsically surreal” and “Oh God please make it stop.”

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | October 30, 2007

BBC America?

The networks put some English on the fall TV season
The British are coming! And they have American accents!

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | September 12, 2007

Nice package

Mad Men practices truth in advertising
The seductive new drama series Mad Men re-creates the beginning of the advertising industry’s shiny modern era of bullshit.

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | August 08, 2007

Breaking the spell

Harry Potter’s story comes to an end — but will readers, or reading, ever be the same?
How did a “children’s story” become the literary epic of our time?

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | July 24, 2007

Jung rascals

The Police go undercover
This article originally appeared in the June 28, 1983 issue of the Boston Phoenix.

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | July 25, 2007

Primadonna

Madonna alters female adolescence
This article originally appeared in the July 29, 1986 issue of the Boston Phoenix .

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | July 26, 2006

God's law

HBO’s lighthearted look at polygamy
Besides its other contributions to pop culture, The Sopranos spawned a prime-time genre that might be called the “suburban-rebel soap.”

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | March 10, 2006

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