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December 19, 2010 01:22PM - Being resilient in crappy
times
December 19, 2010 01:22PM - First, then second,
consideration
December 19, 2010 01:21PM - Keeping the con alive
December 03, 2010 10:47PM - When the good parent
Dumbledore is artfully being
shown the
December 03, 2010 10:42PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Evil people always show,
they're always ready to
buckle. Good
people never
will,…”
July 22, 2010 11:32PM - “If I am ever most fair
to Cameron, I will tackle the
action
in his films. You
fe…”
July 22, 2010 10:45PM - “Yeah, maybe I'll do
that.”
May 07, 2010 12:12AM - “Yeah, I liked it a lot.
Easily as caring as it
is
cruel.”
March 26, 2010 01:34AM - “What did you make of
"Observe and Report"? I
believe Ebert
refused
to…”
March 25, 2010 04:27PM
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Interns
Interns
Every production assistant, intern, receptionist, runner and/or other member of Hollywood’s aspirational poor can rejoice today as Bourne franchise and United 93 director Paul Greengrass held forth on the biggest unresolved scourge afflicting the film industry toda
… Read full post »Being resilient in crappy times
"Being resilient in crappy times"
Before Hollywood discovered it could reap huge profits by adapting comic books, mainstream movies used to attempt subjects that might have something to do with real grown-ups’ lives. That impulse rarely surfaces these days, but it’s the motor that drive
… Read full post »First, then second, consideration
First, then second, consideration
The Tourist is one of those movies that will leave some viewers scratching their heads, wondering why there isn’t more action, more snazzy editing, more obvious crackle between its stars, Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. But I suspect the people who
… Read full post »Keeping the con alive
Keeping the con alive
Salon readers have never been the shy and retiring type, but Monday's Life story -- "How I Became a Con Artist" -- certainly brought out the knives. "You don't deserve to live in a civilized society," read one of the 200+ outraged comments, peppered with such
… Read full post »When the good parent Dumbledore is artfully being shown the
When the good-parent Dumbledore is artfully being shown the door
How Should the University Evolve?, part 1 of 2 from BLSCI on Vimeo.
and the Q&A is here:
I’m in the midst of Thanksgiving prep so don’t have time to contribute my own commentary. Basically we… Read full post »
Sauron thrived when things grew dark too
Sauron thrived when things grew dark, too
… Read full post »Hillenbrand's second book, seven years in the making, is "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" and likely to be as big a hit as "Seabiscuit." The theme is identical -- the triumph of an indomitable under
Kindness
Kindness
… Read full post »Conservative commentators have been bemoaning the decline of the American man almost as long as the American man has been in existence. As it turns out, they are right: Men these days are a mere shadow of what we once were. We've become physically weaker than
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It's prettier, and the text's a bit more cleaned up. Read full post »
Spending time with better people
Spending time with better people
Welcome to the second session of Salon's Reading Club, everyone. For those just joining us, we're discussing Jonathan Franzen's new novel, "Freedom." Last week,we talked about the first part of the book, "Good Neighbors," through the end of Patty's "autobiograp
… Read full post »Frozen Franzenage
Frozen Franzenage
What do you think of the phrase "Franzenfreude"?
I think in German it literally means "joy in Franzen." But I'm no stranger to literary envy and am in no position to deplore it in others.
There's been discussion in the Salon Reading Club about which character in
… Read full post »Provoking the Dread
Provoking the dread
For me, the end of October is always slightly tinged with dread -- provoked not by Halloween spooks, not even by election season, but by the advent of something called NaNoWriMo. If those syllables are nothing but babble to you, then I salute you. They… Read full post »
Absorption / Deflection
Absorption / Deflection
"In modern democratic nations, we usually don't actually kill our leaders; we periodically throw them out of office and replace them with revitalized substitutes. But the decline in potency of the leader, his inexorable abandonment of us as we grow still is felt today. This
… Read full post »The Stewart and Colbert Purity Crusade
The Stewart and Colbert Purity Crusade
Many of you probably watched the famous Jon Stewart "smackdown" of -- in particular -- Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. I knew then that the primary crime Tucker was guilty of was possessing too much personality (his punchy bow-tie, pink shirts, buoya… Read full post »
Evidence
Evidence
The U.K. has cut back expenses hugely and fired millions. It will certainly go into a major Depression. As Tony Blair said when asked why he hit his one-year-old baby: "You have to discipline them!"
Lloyd ("U.K. Cuts Back Gov't Expenses," realpsychohistory, 21 Oct. 2010)… Read full post »
In consideration of all he has accomplished
In consideration of all he has accomplished
BOYCOTT THE HACK ZACH ... in perpetuity
I think it's simply a "travesty" that a supremely spoiled sophomoric pack of so-called ACTORS can RULE the film industry. LIKE anybody in THAT CAST has EVER DONE anything (frankly) remarkable in THEIR… Read full post »
Substituting a goat
And in other miracle-related news, some people in Hollywood decided to stand on principle.
The issue was Mel Gibson, charismatic movie star, Oscar-winning filmmaker and drunken, bigoted, death-threat-issuing lout. Gibson was supposed to make a cameo in "The Hangover 2,"… Read full post »
Repeat
The time has come to admit it -- Jodie Foster is not all that. Foster, beloved child actress turned two-time Academy Award winner, Yale magna cum laude, respected director and person who has lived in the public eye for 40 years without a nip slip, bar brawl or nutty… Read full post »
Retreat
Welcome to the third and final session of the Salon Reading Club for Jonathan Franzen's novel "Freedom." Last week, we took the discussion up through Page 382, and now it's time to consider the book's conclusion.
[. . .]
I'm a little ambivalent about the ending of "Freedom." While it was… Read full post »
Chelsea
The Democrats, as usual, are still fighting the internecine party battles of the '90s. While Jerry Brown struggles with the 1992 presidential primaries out in California, Bill Clinton is attacking a prominent liberal critic and defending his legacy of triangulation.
At a joint appearance with former… Read full post »
Hillary Clinton
The thing that had a radicalizing impact on me began after [Hillary lost in] Iowa. Because there was this pile-on, and to me it was mind-bending. It was coming often from people on the left. It was like something they had been keeping inside as they bit their tongues and covered… Read full post »
Liberal "crazies"
(Hofstadter pointed out that the left is certainly not free of this mind-set, and so Dick Cheney and Halliburton have often served as the designated superhumanly competent malefactors for the other side, as in the 9/11 "Truth" movement.)
[. . .]
Is it any wonder, then, that a growing number of… Read full post »
What do the weak exist for?
When the Jon Meachams and Mika Brzezinskis work up the courage to condemn the people who have done and are continuing to do this for the "blood they have on their hands," then their purported outrage and beliefs can be viewed as sincere. But they don't do that and won't do that. Righteous… Read full post »
What to do when history is not on your side?
What to do when history is not on your side?
I can’t believe we’re going through this again.
In January 2005, Time magazine featured on its cover a photo of a young man in a shirt and dress slacks sitting in a sandbox. The headline: “They Just Won’t Grow/… Read full post »
Thoughts on "The Switch"
(Originally posted at Movieline.com)
Wallie tries to explain to Cassie what he had done, essentially immediately after he recalls his having made the switch 6 years before. Cold sober, chilled but vividly intent, he is well on the way to explaining ... and then the… Read full post »
Xbox your movie
Xbox your movie
3D will interest when it seems linked to an argument that the whole experience of BEING TOLD a story for two hours straight needs explanation, when the possibility might be opened up that you could rather play a part in the movie-world you've "entered." Right now, we're… Read full post »
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