The Self-Styled Siren on Kim Novak: So let’s say — just as a hypothetical for-instance — you are an 81-year-old star whose last movie was in 1991 and who hasn’t been to the Oscars in many a long year. Not that you were ever nominated...
Month: March 2014
This week, Méliès Monday brings you 1908's The Grandmother's Story.
The New York Times article (PDF) on Solomon Northup and his book, 12 Years a Slave, from January 20, 1853.
Shorter verbatim Tammy Bruce: "If we are able to coerce someone, via the threat of lawsuit and personal destruction, to provide a service, how is that not slavery? If we insist that you must violate your faith specifically in that slavish action, how is that...
Mike "pay for play" Allen's daily newsletter, as widely read among political elites as it is terrible, identifies its PARAGRAPH OF THE DAY. Can you guess the source? The Russian.
As I mentioned yesterday in comments, I've been thinking about the pathetic state of the New York Times columnist section lately. The Washington Post op-ed page is also terrible, but.
What that something might be the Editors do not say. Seriously, very serious people get paid to write this kind of thing: The urge to pull back — to concentrate on what Mr. Obama calls “nation-building at home” — is nothing new, as former ambassador...
I suppose it's fine to try and carve out positions that explicitly appeal to white male voters, but not if it means watering down the core values of the Democratic.
This post is a special request from Anna in PDX to help her work out some thorny issues she faces in her local. If this series can be of use.
Although I probably like Her better overall, 12 Years a Slave is an excellent choice for Best Picture. It's also worth noting that it the first major Hollywood production to deal with slavery in a serious way came out in 2013. And no, Amistad was...
I mention it below, but it's worth reiterating how facile the "resolve" argument is with respect to Russia's incursion into Crimea. The causal argument runs thus: Putin believed, because of.
Glenn Kenny ponders the Best Picture nominees while making the Sunday gravy. I was prepared to get on my favorite Eastwood fanatic for the overrated Million Dollar Baby, only putting.