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Hits
* The Amazing Race gives us Goth fever
* No Country for Old Men's Javier Bardem: Great performance. Now, about that Dorothy Hamill hair...
* The first single (''Bleeding Love'') from X Factor winner Leona Lewis. Remember her name — fame!

Near Misses
* KFC won't let a joke die; offers Colbert a swearing-in ceremony at headquarters
* In a medical miracle, Winona Ryder, age 36, plays mom to Zachary Quinto, age 30, in the new Star Trek
* The relentless shilling by Seal and Heidi Klum

Misses
* C'mon writers, you need to come up with better strike chants than ''Marcia's cross and so are we''
* Dwight's ongoing cruelty to animals on The Office
* Do we really have to reread Beowulf?


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Posted Nov 16, 2007 | Published in issue #965 Nov 23, 2007 | Order Article Reprints