spectacle

Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy

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On the Shelf It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time By Bruce VilanchChicago Review Press: 256 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Remember that Snow White-Rob Lowe debacle at the 1989 Oscars? How about the galactically bizarre 1978 … Read more

A Fan’s Notes on the Spectacle of Super Bowl Week

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The President was in the Dome. It was hard to know where. He’d visited a corner of the field earlier, to some gumbo of boos and cheers, but I’d somehow missed him. Attention was diffuse, amid the distractions and noise, the bright colors and lights, and the bombardment of commercial agitation. The only thing that … Read more