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The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all... →
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only... →
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me... →
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder... →
One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world... →
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and... →
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a... →
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic... →
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller... →
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