Andy Richter's TV shows are like the drawings in Mad magazine in its glory days …

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And it's from one of our local stations, no less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ynz2Vvz9xo

Fun playing murder victims and other notes, after the jump …

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Well, in the parade of "Idol" stars who have gone on to other things, they didn't get footage of Jennifer Hudson at the Oscars. No rights or too cheap to buy them, you be the judge. And more, after the jump …

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You've had plenty of time to see it, so the cone of silence is lifted, after the jump …

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Little things can feel like big worries. Nice to see Molly Shannon on a good "30 Rock" on Thursday, but she looked alarmingly thin. Then there's the way Newsweek's Joshua Alston wrote about Amy Winehouse …

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My review in today's Beacon Journal is here.

I went back and forth quite a bit while writing it, mostly because I was concerned that I was giving too much credit to a movie that was aimed at me, or at least aimed at me when I pretend I am about 30 years younger.

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The big 12. Post-show podcast link now available at www.ohio.com. Live blog during the show, after the jump. …

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Blogging while watching (on delay, after painfully slow restaurant service), and my faves for the final 12, after the jump …

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Since I'm playing catch-up, performances and not much more, after the jump …

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I took a break from TV tonight to attend a screening of "300." An impressive movie in many respects, though I have a few reservations. I will be posting more about it, as well as some catch-up TV, sometime on Wednesday.

Over the weekend I caught a little bit of "Teacher's Pet," the 1958 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten newspaper editor and Doris Day as a journalism teacher. I've always been kind of fond of it and even as a kid I learned a journalism lesson that can still hold — the one about the virtue of brevity in storytelling.

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The explanation, with spoilers, after the jump …

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Tonight's post-results podcast info:

Listen - http://www.ohiomm.com/podcasts/american_idol/070301.mp3

Subscribe - http://www.ohiomm.com/podcasts/RSS/idol.xml

And the results, as they were announced, after the jump…

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