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Vegas and Jungleland

Paul Shaffer and the Big Man tell all
Paul Shaffer is a happenin’ cat. Pick an It Moment from pop culture over the past 30 years and Shaffer was there. He was an original band member on Saturday Night Live . He played hapless promo guy Artie Fufkin in This Is Spinal Tap . Disco? He co-wrote “It’s Raining Men.” And he helped David Letterman break ground as his glittery, ironic bandleader/sidekick.
By JOYCE MILLMAN  |  November 24, 2009

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The Thriller is gone

For Michael Jackson, Bad ain't good
With the release of Bad (Epic), Michael Jackson ends a recording hiatus of nearly five years. He could have stayed away for 10 years and still not have escaped the shadow of Thriller , the biggest-selling album of all time.
By JOYCE MILLMAN  |  June 30, 2009

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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