Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
David Denby is a New Yorker movie critic. He also fancies himself as a political commentator. To him, Hollywood is the real world, the template against which everything else is compared. Reading his reviews, it’s obvious that, like the yearning kid watching Fred & Ginger trip lightly across in the
Continue readingMy daughter went to our local library this weekend and brought home a bunch of the library’s recent acquisitions for teens. The inside jacket blurb describes them as fantasy or high school relationship books. My daughter said to me, “I don’t know why it is, Mom, but they all turn
Continue readingHere’s the thing that the progressives in media and government want to hide from you: The federal government is America’s servant, not its master. This means that the National Park Service is a caretaker, not an owner. To the extent it is denying people access to outdoor monuments (including blocking
Continue readingWe tend to forget, but the big networks get to come to our TVs because they rent airwaves from the federal government. In other words, “we the People” are the landlords and the networks are the tenants. Do you think this video violates the lease? (Serious content warning — I’d
Continue readingThe problem with Bill Whittle videos is that, once you start watching them, you can’t stop:
Continue readingAccording to the headline, Dolce & Gabbana whose designers were convicted of tax evasion, confronted the issue head-on by dressing the models in their latest show in gold costumes festooned by giant coins: Color me unimpressed. Back in 1933, Warner Brothers did it better, and it had Ginger Rogers singing
Continue readingMiley Cyrus is an American tragedy. By that, I don’t mean that she herself is tragic. Of course, to the extent that she’s a young woman who’s been utterly corrupted by Hollywood, that’s an individual tragedy. When I say she’s an “American tragedy,” though, I mean that she is emblematic
Continue readingThe online magazine IndieWire has noted something interesting: movies with gay leading characters aren’t doing big box office. In the 90s, movies such as The Birdcage (based on the audience tested La Cage aux Folles), Philadelphia (about the still-headlining catching scourge AIDS), and In & Out (with a pleasing Kevin
Continue readingMy friend who blogs at “To Put It Bluntly,” has some things to say about World War Z. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m too busy today to read what he has to say, but I trust him. I know that he’s incredibly intelligent and a good writer, so whether
Continue readingYesterday, my substantive Bookworm Room work was limited to a single post in which I linked to David Swindle’s article about Game of Thrones. Having read David’s writing, one of my friends sent me his take on Game of Thrones. I’d like to share parts of it with you, as
Continue readingA few days ago, Jose brought to my attention the fact that Deanna Durbin died at 91. The fresh-faced, operatically-trained youngster was, at one point, one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Because she walked away from fame, however, she’s not well-remembered today. I thought it would nice to
Continue readingSomeone gave us tickets to see a play called Black Watch, about the famed Scottish regiment in the British Army. The play premiered in 2006 in Edinburgh, at the height of anti-War fervor. It tells the story of a regiment that goes back 300 years, that bore the brunt of
Continue readingCongressional Republicans have been working hard lately at something we all should care about — talking to the Benghazi survivors. Sen. Lindsay Graham has been making it something of a personal crusade. As far as he’s concerned, there’s a cover-up going on: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in an extensive interview
Continue reading[UPDATE: Okay, I knew my theory was way too wacky to be true, although I had fun writing it up. Although the White House didn’t list it on the official schedule (because Thomas Lifson checked), I should have remembered that the Obama’s were hosting the annual Governor’s dinner — the
Continue readingOld Hollywood, which was owned and operated by foreign-born or first generation European Jews had aspirations. What may surprise some is that these aspirations did not usually include Art (note that capital “A”). The aspirations — or the absence of low behavior — came about in part because of the
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