Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Despite any actual evidence, Elizabeth Warren sticks resolutely to her claim that she is 1/32 Native American. This is how crazy people think. Do you know how I know that? Because I just watched Bowfinger with the kids. Bowfinger, which was made in 1999, when one could still be at
Continue readingMy husband and I are current watching The Ides of March. That I am staying awake during a movie that stars the bovine George Clooney, the insipid Ryan Gosling, the obscenity-spouting Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and the “I don’t get why he’s famous” Paul Giamatti and that, forty minutes into the
Continue readingWe have been watching a new HBO show called Veep, a comedy that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a fictional Vice President. The show isn’t about politics (we never see or hear from the President, although a goofy jerk is his liaison to the Vice President’s office). Instead, it’s about office
Continue readingI love fairy tales. I’ve always loved fairy tales. Growing up, I devoured fairy tale books, with special emphasis on the Disney movies, with their beautiful princesses. My personal favorite was Disney’s Cinderella. I saw it once when I was a child and then, in a pre-video era, all I
Continue readingI had the opportunity the other night to see a first run movie and I ran out the door so fast, I forgot my jacket. The movie was the smash hit The Avengers. Of the predicate movies that introduce the various characters, I’ve seen only the first Iron Man, so
Continue readingHere’s an old, bad (really bad) joke: During the 1973 war, the Israeli Army determined that at least one third of all Arab forces arrayed against them were named Mohammed. They quickly developed a new tactic. The IDF troops would take cover and holler out, “Mohammed!” In response to the
Continue readingWe finally got around to watching The Iron Lady, which won Meryl Streep another Best Actress award. It was a movie that failed at so many levels, most strikingly in its obvious goal of denigrating Margaret Thatcher and leaving a sordid historical record behind. To appreciate how the movie failed
Continue readingStockholm Syndrome: In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially
Continue readingSubject to a very few exceptions, I don’t see movies during their first runs in movie theaters. Instead, I see them when they’re released on DVD. That’s why I’m only watching The Help now. (The Help is a movie about black maids in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.) Before
Continue readingI’d never heard of Roshon Fegan before last night, when I finally caught up with this season’s premier of Dancing With The Stars. Now, I’m unlikely to forget him. The guy can move: Incidentally, for those who’ve heard that this season’s opener was the best ever, that’s no hype. With
Continue readingIn 1990, the movie Pretty Woman took the country by storm and turned Julia Roberts into a major star. It was a “new age” Cinderella story, one that saw a prostitute, through her soulful innocence, redeem a corporate raider. I was not charmed. To me, corporate raiders are useful people,
Continue readingToday’s news — if you can call it news — is that Rosie O’Donnell, is not only to the left of Left politically, she’s no lady when it comes to her day-to-day interactions with people, especially people in subordinate positions: Through all the changes [in the form of the just-cancelled
Continue readingThis is a mini “review” of Game Change for two reasons. First, I’ve only managed to slog my way through the first half of the movie. Second, I don’t have much to say. I tried to watch the whole thing, honest I did, but couldn’t. Not only were the untruths
Continue readingI’ve mentioned before that I pretty much sat out the first decade of the 21st century when it came to pop culture, which is how I entirely missed Ricky Martin. Having young children simply left me uninterested in things other than diapers, soccer carpools, etc. Now those same children are
Continue readingI was surprised at how many of my “real me” Facebook friends watched the Grammys. (One of them was even in the audience.) Even in my younger days, when pop music mattered more to me, I wouldn’t have watched the Grammys. In past years, though, as I’ve become increasingly aware
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