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by Linda Holmes

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• The New York Times has a look at the current state of online television and the looming prospect of limiting online viewing to cable subscribers, as elsewhere, Disney/ABC considers making a deal with Hulu.

• NASA continues to scramble to figure out what to do about Stephen Colbert, and now a member of Congress is involved.

Note:

• The news that whether video games are good or bad for you depends on the content shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but it probably will. Now go and play a nice round of Super Mario Puppy-Hugging Sugar-Coated Rainbow Junction.

Zac Efron, opera, House, and the Hokey-Pokey, after the jump...

• Mos Def is a really good actor (he was the best part of Be Kind Rewind, among other recent performances, and tonight, he drops by for a high-profile patient POV episode of House. As PopWatch notes, M*A*S*H writer Ken Levine is crying foul. It's understandable, but I don't think you can claim something as broad as the POV shot and own it for all medical dramas forever.

• Frequent Monkey See contributor Marc Hirsh has this fine piece at MSNBC about a few of the many lies involved in producing American Idol. Happily, he continues the trend we started last week of giving the Hokey-Pokey as much exposure as possible.

&bull: Question of the day: Is Amy Poehler the next Tina Fey, or is not being her own showrunner fatal to that pursuit?

• The latest film to leap "reluctantly" into the briar patch of its own NC-17 rating is Bruno, from Sacha Baron Cohen, who brought you Borat. Oh, no, MPAA! Don't imply that my film is incredibly daring and raunchy!

• I regretfully share what may be the unwelcome news (if it is news to you) that Will Smith's son Jaden is set to star in a Karate Kid remake. At least they've changed the name to The Kung Fu Kid, the better to fit co-star Jackie Chan.

• If you're not in a position to see opera in person, you may well have a chance to see it at your local movie theater, if it's not busy showing Fast And Furious on 12 screens simultaneously.

Ignore:

• Madonna's baby-adopting habits are none of my business. Neither is Halle Berry's emotional readiness to have a baby.

• The news about Zac Efron's career plans will probably not affect the spending of my entertainment dollar.

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3:53 - March 30, 2009

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