"Thomas William "Tom" Shales" is an United States/American critic of television programming and operations. He is best known as critic/TV critic for The Washington Post; in 1988, Shales received the Pulitzer Prize. He also writes a column for the television news trade publication NewsPro, published by Crain Communications.

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He was seen seated behind a desk, immobile, with no close-ups allowed. Virtually his only movement occurred during a poignant moment when his wife swooped in to give him a Happy New Year kiss.

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It's hard to believe that professional entertainers could have put together a show less entertaining than this year's Oscars, hosted with a smug humorlessness by comic Jon Stewart, a sad and pale shadow of great hosts gone by.

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Live From New York.

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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

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Viewers ... may well have been hoping the famous giant ball was the only thing that would drop before the night was over.

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Kathie Lee Gifford got another hammerlock on Christmas and once again tried to throttle it to death.

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