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What to Watch on Sunday: Super Bowl or Super Downton Abbey?

Super Bowl XLVI (6pm, NBC) - As if you didn't know: New England Patriots vs. the New York Giants in Indianapolis. Madonna performs at halftime. Someone convince me to pull for their team and I will. If football isn't your thing, and you've already seen all the great commercials leaked online, there's always the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet.

60 Minutes Presents: Three Remarkable Women (8pm, CBS) - Morley Safer profiles Meryl Streep, Anna Wintour, and Dolly Parton.

Downton Abbey (9pm, UNC-TV) - In episode 5, the household prepares for the war's end and the family looks forward to having a private home again -- unless cousin Isobel (Penelope Wilton pictured with Elizabeth McGovern) has her way. Also, in a remarkably "soapy" twist, a wounded officer makes a startling claim that could alter the Downton succession plan.

Luck (9pm, HBO) - In the second episode of the series (which has already been renewed for another season by HBO), Ace (Dustin Hoffman) meets with his parole officer and starts to line up potential investors as a public face for his next big venture. Also, Walter finds a seasoned jockey for his prized thoroughbred, much to Rosie's dismay.

Shameless (9pm, Showtime) - When Eddie Jackson's body turns up, Frank thinks he should be in line to claim his pension and insurance benefits.

The Voice (10:30pm-ish, NBC) - Season 2 debuts after all the Super Bowl hoopla, so the 10:30pm start time is fluid. Tonight is the first night of blind auditions, during which coaches Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton begin choosing 12 vocalists for their respective teams.

Anna Wintour ... "The Last Empress"

In case you missed it in The New York Times over the weekend, here's a great piece on whether Vogue's Anna Wintour is still relevant. The timing, of course, coincides with the opening of the new documentary, "The September Issue," about the making of the September 2007 Vogue, the record-setting issue that had 840 pages. (I hear it's a good film and a must-see for fashionistas.)

Anna Wintour an ambassador?

I really nearly spit out my coffee this morning when I read this rumor from the Fashion Week Daily ... apparently, Anna Wintour, Vogue's top chief and arguably the most powerful woman in fashion, is in the running for an official post within the Obama administration (she did throw a few fundraiser parties during the election season).

Perhaps ambassador to France? After chewing it over, I'm thinking that might be a good fit. She can have state dinners with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, she can host fabulous parties at 31 rue Cambon and she probably could even dictate just about everything, down to the invite lists, for Paris Fashion Week.

Of course, all of this would mean Anna is indeed stepping down from Vogue. 

Stay tuned! I can't wait for the next rumor!

 

 

Vogue without Anna?

Can you imagine? That's like the NBA without Michael Jordan!

Apparently, Vogue's longtime queen bee Anna Wintour, possibly the most feared and revered person in the fashion industry, is tired of the biz and is considering retirement with the upcoming end of her contract. At least, that's what The New York Post's Page Six is reporting.

Read it for yourself here.

If true, it would, of course, lead to plenty of speculation about who could possibly fill her Louboutins!

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