“Smash,” which NBC hyped as heavily as the Super Bowl, premiered Monday night. The show is many things: a musical within a show, a heavy-on-the-glitter-but-light-on-the-grit look behind the scenes of Broadway and an ode to every musical theater trope you know and possibly love, from the wide-eyed Iowa girl aching for her big break to the slimy director who wouldn’t mind breaking her in. Perhaps you expected this. Read full article > >

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Playwright Grote takes a turn at writing for ‘Smash’

– Hot on the stiletto heels of Sunday’s acclaimed Super Bowl halftime gig, Madonna announced a massive world tour that will visit Washington’s Verizon Center on Sept. 23. Tickets go on sale Feb. 13 at 10 a.m. The cheap seats will cost you $48 — the priciest are going for $358. Read full article > >

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Madonna to play Verizon Center Sept. 23; Kid Rock’s Made in Detroit clothing line not really made in Detroit; Daft Punk collaborating with Nile…

Heresy alert: I thought the Clint Eastwood ad for Chrysler during the Super Bowl was great. I saw it when it originally aired and my first thought was not of President Obama. Maybe Republicans see his hidden hand more often than we should. Obama isn’t everywhere subverting the American dream — he is almost everywhere subverting the American dream. Read full article > >

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Sometimes a Chrysler ad is just a Chrysler ad

The performance of Andy Lewis on a slackline as part of Madonna’s half-time show at the Super Bowl brought unprecedented attention to an obscure form of tightrope walking.

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Super Bowl — Slacklining Gains Stage in Madonna’s Halftime Show

Moments after the energetic Madonna entertained fans during the halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl, millions of television viewers got an emotional jolt back into reality. Amid the close-up shots of factory workers and Midwest families, were there political undertones in Chrysler's Super Bowl ad?

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Politics buried in Eastwood’s ad?

Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad provided yet another reminder that in today’s polarized political climate, even a a football championship can be thrust into a partisan light.

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Republicans See Politics in Chrysler Super Bowl Ad

For the third time in as many years, Sunday’s Super Bowl has been crowned the most-watched television broadcast ever. An estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots, 21-17, Nielsen said Monday. Read full article > >

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NBC’s mixed Super Bowl news: Numbers were up. So was bad behavior.

A new record for activity on Twitter during a sports event was set during the 2012 Super Bowl, with more than 10,000 messages sent per second, Twitter says.

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Super Bowl prompts Twitter record

Forget dieting dogs and Ferris Bueller — or Mario Manningham’s clutch catch for that matter. As far as Washington was concerned, the biggest moment in last night’s Super Bowl was that Clint Eastwood ad touting Chrysler. Read full article > >

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Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl ad: What do political ad folks say?

Madonna “rose to the occasion” to give “a shot of female brass” to the Super Bowl in her 12-minute half-time show, reviewers say.

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Madonna ‘brassy’ at Super Bowl

By the time the second season premiere of “The Voice” starts after the Super Bowl , we’re well-acquainted with the four judges, thanks to many ads during the big game. Plus, Blake Shelton sang “America the Beautiful” with his wife, Miranda Lambert, before kickoff. Kelly Clarkson’s stellar national anthem brought up comparisons of Christina Aguilera’s incident last year. And Cee Lo Green nearly stole the halftime show from Madonna with a truly genius costume (though some will argue if they’ll all be upstaged by a certain gesture made by M.I.A. during the performance). Read full article > >

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‘The Voice’ post-Super Bowl episode: Season 2 premiere

INDIANAPOLIS — There was no perfect season on the line this time, but the New York Giants did it again to Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots . Quarterback Eli Manning engineered the big drive in crunch time when the Giants needed it and New York beat the Patriots, 21-17 , on Sunday night at Lucas Oil Stadium in another down-to-the-wire Super Bowl between these rivals. Read full article > >

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Super Bowl 2012: Giants beat Patriots 21-17 in a heartstopping repeat of 2008 title game

On Sunday, the Giants and the Patriots — their entanglement stretching through generations and championships, shared philosophy and similar results — will be together again at the Super Bowl.

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Three Football Families, Linked by Philosophies

Finally, those long-suffering New York and Boston sports devotees have something to cheer about. Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup between the Giants and Patriots means the rabid body-painted and foam-fingered fans in one of these Northeast metropolises will celebrate a sports championship for the first time since . . . last year. Read full article > >

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Super Bowl 2012, for much of America, offers a lot to hate

President Obama proposes a jobs plan for veterans | Homeless shelter population in New York City reaches a record high | Creative bets on the Super Bowl.

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TIMESCAST: TimesCast | February 3, 2012