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Michael Douglas right plays an aging actor and acting coach in The Kominsky Method.
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Alan Arkin is his longtime agent. It's set in Hollywood, but it's really about the biggest show of all: David Bianculli says it's one of 's most tense and well-acted TV thrillers.
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With Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl, and Mindy Project, we get a series of sitcoms that feel not just inviting or comfortable, but at times even surprising. But, especially recently, what I really want to talk about is old TV. Annie, your argument about Netflix as the new canon is so right. I am no stranger to waking up at 6 AM realizing that Parks and Recreation has been auto-playing on my laptop for four hours as I lay dreaming. These days we can choose the perfect mood to chase away the nightmare, or the anxiety, or — less successfully — the sad.
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TV has gotten a lot more intimate, more entwined with our subconscious, closer. They write epistolary criticism about TV.
Each week, the gang will select a different series, issue, or pet peeve, and their correspondence about it will appear here on the LARB blog, Monday through Wednesday. Kill The Leading Man: Librarians carefully curate the materials in their departments, Orlean says: Many of them are books that can't be found anymore. So for these librarians it was absolutely devastating to see the books destroyed.
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Investigators began to suspect arson, and focused their attention on a young man named Harry Peak. Tall and blond, he aspired to be an actor — stage fright aside — and, as Orlean says, "He really captured that desire and that questing for being noticed. Peak gave no fewer than seven alibis for where he was the day of the fire.
He had to somehow project himself into the middle of this dramatic event.
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He had many, many different versions of his whereabouts that day. Peak was arrested but not indicted. The Library Book isn't intended to solve the crime, but rather — to explore its story.