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Paley Center Announces Super-Necessary New Award Show to Rival Emmys

Just as they’d promised us last December , the Paley Center has officially announced they’re staging a television award show for May 2012. Phew. I was just thinking that the TV Guide Awards, Cable ACE Awards, and American Film Institute’s television ceremonies were all great ideas and enjoyed incredible ratings. Man. So what do we know about the fete?

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Paley Center Announces Super-Necessary New Award Show to Rival Emmys

On DVD: 9 Movie Spies MacGruber Should Have Studied

MacGruber , out this week on DVD, yawned in theaters, and I think I know why: satires of spy/secret agent/man-of-action genre stuff are already thick on the ground, and have been since the ’60s. There must be something inherently funny about the Cold War if it gave birth to a “spy” like James Bond, who didn’t even do much spying. (Aren’t spies supposed to be, you know, covert? Did Sean Connery ever do anything but announce his presence everywhere he went?) And now that we know the whole Cold War was a sham anyway, we can’t shake the silliness. Maybe it was all one big, extremely preposterous movie, like these 9 spy comedies:

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On DVD: 9 Movie Spies MacGruber Should Have Studied