Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

“The morbid urge to gaze”: How the Chelsea Clinton wedding is connected to stylish movie murders

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I haven’t got the slightest bit of interest in the recent wedding of Chelsea Clinton to Mark Mezvinsky. However, if you can hook that over-e...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Yes, Teenage Boys, There is a Santa Claus -or- Where is Robin Askwith When You Really Need Him?

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Male adolescents of all ages were certainly happy to hear about the scandal at James Madison High School in Brooklyn earlier this week. It s...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Camp and schlock: very much alive

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I wrote a few months ago about the very special media circus that the death of Michael Jackson created. Outdistancing even the “big nothing...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Long Goodbyes: Staring into the Void of Larry King Live

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I don’t watch Larry King Live that much — I don’t have that much interest in long, drawn-out murder investigations and Suzanne Somers’ medi...
Friday, February 27, 2009

New Yorker Films unspools its last

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Arthouse film fans with long memories were depressed this week by the announcement of the closing of New Yorker Films, a firm that has been...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The limits of free speech: joking about Presidential assassination

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YouTube has become a clearing house for just about every public statement people want to make — witness the ”YouTube divorce woman” who rec...