MOVIE: MoMA is currently running a retrospective on Joan Blondell, titled The Bombshell from Ninety-first Street. Trace the metamorphosis of the Manhattan-born actress from a young blonde bombshell to...a blonde bombshell in more mature roles! Tonight you can catch her in Blondie Johnson (1933) and Nightmare Alley (1947). 6 and 8pm // MoMA [11 West 53 St] EVENT: This sounds like the perfect balance of science and romance...and freezing, freezing cold. Learn about your place......

In advance of an official press conference at The Palace Theater today, The Times and The Post have reported that Spike Lee will be make his Broadway debut next spring with the 1951 play Stalag 17; a dramedy about camaraderie and betrayal between American airmen stuck in a German P.O.W camp (later made into a film by Billy Wilder.) Sources say that Clive Owen will once again be Spike’s inside man on the project. (Though......

EVENT: Tonight is the "Taxi 07: Transforming and Icon" event, marking the 100th anniversary of the New York taxi. The Design Trust for Public Space have gathered together members of the city’s design community and tonight they discuss ideas for the redesign the yellow cab. The idea of a redesign was announced back in 2005. 6:30pm // Cooper Hewitt Design Museum [2 E 91st St] // $10 THEATER: Cherry Lane Theatre is reviving Amiri Baraka's......

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute.......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

In a definitive move to wake up America this morning from our case of the Mondays, President Bush has nominatd his White House Counsel Harriet Miers (pronounced like Meyers) to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. According to early reports, Miers, who had been the assistant Chief of Staff (think Josh on The West Wing!), has known W for ages as his private lawyer, even helping him clear brush in Crawford. Not......

Gothamist doesn't know why we bothered with the 2005 Emmy Nominations because they were boring, except that we're ruthless TV watchers and awards show fiends, so we're painted into the corner. The actors, actresses, and programs nominated were all fine and very talented, but it's the same crew every year! James Gandolfini...Allison Janney...The West Wing...Will & Grace - which wasn't even as good as the subpar non-nominated Friends this past season...four writing nominations for the......

Possibly, if you were trying not to watch the Nets-Pistons game last night, for fear of the 'fro, you might have channel surfed over to CNBC, which rebroadcasts Meet the Press on Sunday nights, where you might have seen that insane part of the Colin Powell interview, where Powell's press aide Emily Miller seemingly pushed the camera off Powell. Powell and Miller argued about the move, Powell saying that the interview wasn't done and......

Tonight is one of the final episodes of Angel, the much beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff. These days, when not getting sucked into some other demon hole or something, Angel has been beat up by The O.C. or The West Wing in the ratings. Variety TV editor Michael Schneider has been getting lots of "Save Angel" mail from the dedicated Angels fans (photo, above):They came from all over the globe: Oklahoma, Ireland, Australia,......

In the Saturday Night Live spoof of Fear Factor, Fear Factor Junior, the SNL crew made a point of making fun of NBC's tendency to blurb and blurb with ellipses, much to the delight of many. Now Variety looks at how NBC will "break through the promotional clutter by any ... means ... necessary." The pattern breaks down like this: Three words, each separated by three periods - easy! Examples include "Best ... Boardroom .........

The Post kicks off Radiohead's two nights at Madison Square Garden by talking to people who hate Radiohead but have been afraid to admit it because Radiohead are critically beloved and "cool." An entertainment editor says, "Hating Radiohead is the hipster's dirty little secret," and Spin writer Chuck Klosterman, though a fan, can understand the hate as well. "There's definitely now a symbolic value to saying you hate Radiohead - even Kid Rock makes a......

Hearing that Fox Fired 'Bernie Mac' Creator-Producer Larry Wilmore, I was pretty shocked. Yes, it's not as popular as they would like it to be, but it's been on at 9PM on Wednesdays, where there's been The Bachelor/ette and The West Wing. I also feel like The Bernie Mac Show has been shuffled around the schedule, a lot, due to American Idol and stuff. I have a feeling they want to dumb down the show......

Slate's Rob Walker weighs in on the ostensibly pro- and anti-war ads by Tom Ridge and Martin Sheen. Martin Sheenhas had a history of activism, but certainly his role on The West Wing gives him more of a platform. Before September 11, 2001, there was much buzz about people preferring a president more like The West Wing's Jed Bartlet: A comparison of the Josiah Bartlet and George W. Bush presidencies.......

In the spirit of Super Bowl Sunday, I thought I'd bring up the new ad campaign by Coke...the Coca-Cola "Real" spots. Here is what Coke says it's trying to do with the ads, and here's a take from MSNBC. The ad rags, Ad Week and Ad Age, are enthusiastic about them. Me? I like the David Arquette-Courteney Cox one a lot, they seem natural and it's a great insight into the desirability of Coke.......