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Walk into one room in the Museum of the City of New York on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and you’ll find magic in miniature. The Stettheimer Doll House — a six-foot-high, two-story, 12-room edifice that its creator, Carrie Stettheimer, worked on for nearly two decades in the early part of the 20th century — is [...]..

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Sue me, but I like Betty Draper/Francis as a character. The problem is that Mad Men doesn't. Betty's not the worst character on the show, but she's probably the worst-served...

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(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars. Edward St. Aubyn, At Last. Elizabeth Hand, Available Dark. Mark Leyner, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack. Hari Kunzru, Gods without Men. Laurent Binet, HHhH. Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests. Now that I’ve gone on the record bitching [...]..

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Last night's big two-hour 'Glee' bonanza would have been season-finale material in any year that didn't include a graduation. Also, Lindsay Lohan!..

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In its latest turn of branding, ABC is about feelings. Or as President Paul Lee put it in his address to advertisers at the network’s upfront, “Why just watch, when you can feel?” Right now, every president of a porn network is kicking himself for not having that slogan first...

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After last night’s Dancing With the Stars performances, it seemed clear which pair should be going home before the season finale. When the dancers are so evenly matched and one biffs the ending she should go, right? But this is a dancing show, so it’s only fair that they keep you on your toes. So [...]..

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Imagine, for a second, that you are a person looking for advice on how to get through this thing we all call “life.” There are plenty of places to turn for good advice: friends, family, an entire section of the Internet dedicated to telling you what you’ve done wrong so far and how you should [...]..

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Inspecting movies, that is, in the role of a professional film watcher at a major international festival. Several hundred features are on view at the 65th Festival de Cannes — the proprietors of the world’s largest annual convention figure you know it’s a film festival — and the couple thousand critics know they are expected [...]..

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"It’s discrimination plain and simple," Jay-Z said during a press conference announcing his new music festival ..

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A peek at Mindy Kaling's new sitcom answers the burning question: which kind of doctor is the funniest?..

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After a seven-year hiatus, the alternative rock band sounds just as tight, shiny and dark as vocalist Shirley Manson's pleather boots..

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Four contestants, three judges, two dances in one night of Dancing with the Stars. It reads like a math problem, but in fact it is far more fun that! We have reached the semi-final rounds of this endearingly ridiculous contest. Last week we saw the elimination of both Little House on the Prairie star Melissa [...]..

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I was out of town yesterday as broadcast-network upfront season began, with NBC and Fox announcing their new fall schedules for advertisers. I’ll be attending and/or following the remaining announcements this week, and I’ll have some more thoughts on the new NBC and Fox shows later, when I’ve seen pilots, but here’s the quick-and-dirty on [...]..

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Meet Emily Maynard. She has one of those stories that you wouldn’t believe unless it was repeated ad nauseum on television, which, luckily, it has been. She was engaged to NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, the scion of an illustrious NASCAR family, who was killed in a plane crash on his way to a race in [...]..

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Quick spoilers for the season finale of Smash below: …and so Smash concludes its first season as it began, wildly applauding for itself. The season-ender (NBC has announced the show will return in midseason next year) wrapped up the Karen-or-Ivy question by declaring itself Team Karen, and, apparently, assuming that we all were too. As [...]..

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Gotye's breakout hit is dominating music charts, but how does it measure up to its contemporaries?..

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TIME sat down with the author of this year's most inspiring memoir..

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Amy Herzog's moving off-Broadway family drama is one rewarding trip..

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(NEW YORK) — Britney Spears and Demi Lovato are joining the judging panel on “The X Factor” this fall, part of Fox’s effort to boost its underperforming music competition shows. The network’s executives, in presenting next season’s schedule to advertisers on Monday, also promised changes for “American Idol.” While “Idol” remains Fox’s centerpiece, as it [...]..

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(NEW YORK) — Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as “In the Midnight Hour,” ”Hold On I’m Coming” and “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” [...]..

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