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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Inasmuch as its host seems assured of escaping its 13-episode run with his dignity intact, Spectacle: Elvis Costello With … (Sundance, Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET) is a rousing success. To hear that a favorite artist will settle in for a stint as a chat-show impresario is to fret that he's heading out to pasture for a while to chew cud and make milk for mild cheese. It is a relief to see that Costello...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The onetime angry young rocker proves a perfectly amiable host on his new Sundance Channel talk show. Elvis Costello, the knock-kneed, gap-toothed Angry Thin Man of mid-'70s pub/punk/new wave rock who once identified his exclusive motivations as revenge and guilt, has settled into friendly middle age as the host of his own music-themed Sundance Channel talk show, " Spectacle: Elvis Costello with ....
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Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
WHEN|WHERE Premieres tonight at 9 on Sundance
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Will you buy Elvis Costello as a TV host? I think you will, because he is playing that role on a promising new show designed for music lovers. "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with ... " debuts at 9 p.m. Wednesday on...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Elvis Costello would be a natural on TV -- or so people kept telling him. For years he believed it, entertaining meetings with the BBC and others as far back as the late 1980s about developing his own show. But nothing stuck, even after he filled in as a host of "Late Show" when David Letterman was recovering from shingles in 2003.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show "Spectacle," Elvis Costello didn't ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or "Island Girl." Instead, the conversation turned to Laura Nyro, Leon Russell and David Ackles. The two...
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PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The theme music to "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With" sounds like a funky version of "Here Comes Santa Claus," an appropriate coincidence since this talk show, debuting Wednesday on the Sundance...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | yesterday
ELVIS COSTELLO is still upset with moviemaker JARED HESS for using his mid-1980s alter-ego NAPOLEON DYNAMITE in his hit 2004 film - and refusing to credit the rocker. ...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Less than six months after giving birth to daughter Honor, Jessica Alba is is pimping Campari in her skivvies. [People] First he loses the prestigious Sexiest Man Alive designation to Hugh Jackman,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Hey, you like music, otherwise it stands to reason you probably wouldn't be reading Cinema Blend's music section. Well, you should consider DVRing Elvis Costello's new thirteen episode interview show on The Sundance Channel . The program airs on Wednesday Nights at nine P.M. Eastern and will feature auditory exchanges with a hoard of music legends
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If I Ran the Zoo (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Publicity shot for Elvis Costello's new Sundance talkshow. This should be great. And not (just) because he's liberal.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Singers experience, insights make music-talk show great viewing Elvis Costello's new original series Spectacle will premiere on the Sundance Channel on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. ET. During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show Spectacle, Elvis Costello didn't ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or "Island Girl." Instead, the conversation turned to Laura Nyro, Leon Russell...
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Earvolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bono continues to try to harness the wild horse of capitalism to raise money for the world's poor. RedWire.com, a new online music magazine, is the latest aspect of the ongoing campaign. The site launched on World Aids Day with help from U2, Jay Z, Elvis Costello, Coldplay, John Legend and more, who all lend video content to the cause. Death Cab for Cutie and Jenny Lewis (with a version of ("
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No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jim M emails with the observation that Elvis Costello's move into TV presenting isn't entirely comfortable: the phrase "vanity project" springs to mind. Some of us remember when Costello confined his TV appearances to those occasions when he he actually had something to say, or perform. He's now turned into the sort of media darling he would once have scorned in his lyrics. How showbiz is the project?...
