Avatar and the noble savage
Remember that guy who did the 70 minute Phantom Menace review that set the ‘sphere abuzz a month or two ago? Well, he’s back with a (far shorter) review of...
Remember that guy who did the 70 minute Phantom Menace review that set the ‘sphere abuzz a month or two ago? Well, he’s back with a (far shorter) review of...
It’s been a while since I updated the department of double standards…but I couldn’t resist after Frank Rich wrote this laugher of a column: If Reid can serve as the...
In preparation for a freelance piece I’m rereading What Just Happened, Art Linson’s book on what, exactly, it means to be a “producer.” You know, that credit that you sometimes...
Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, stole the spotlight by informing us that Harry Reid thought of Barack Obama as a “light-skinned”, um, “Negro”. That quote was quite...
Dan Drezner notes that Libya’s weirdo-in-chief is not happy about being deposed as head of the African Union. I just have to ask, what kind of continent chooses Muammar Qaddafi...
In the current issue of the New Yorker, my old classmate Ben McGrath goes inside the Tea Party movement. Ben is determined not to write-off the Tea Partiers as right-wing...