A very entertaining piece from Glenn Kenny, who notes that David Mamet's dismal career as a 28th-rate wingnut pundit wasn't his first attempt to leverage his (justified) reputation as a playwright into getting compensated for some lazy hackwork in a field he has no talent or...
As a historian of the Gilded Age, the sequester is very exciting to me. With each passing day, a big leap back to the halcyon days of the 1890s seems.
Shorter Roger L. Simon: "Everything changed for me on September 11. I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I’m outraged that Ronald Reagan appeared at the.
On Seth McMarflane, I once again quote one of my all-time favorite critical lines, from Robert Christgau: "Irony--an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing." ...so they did just fire all the writers and have McFarlane and an intern copy and tweak some punchlines from...
I'm quite willing to be skeptical of the construction of martyrdom in the early Christian Church, but this seems rather the wrong approach: This is not to deny that some.
Let Alex Pareene be your guide into the weekly circles of Hell known as the Sunday talk shows. Why anyone watches these things, I do not know. Note: you may.
Sam Mendes is the Don Delillo of contemporary cinema, in that he's as beloved as he's banal and otherwise right-thinking people seem incapable of recognizing him as such. A few years ago I wrote of my hatred of the flat affect (or affected flatness) that characterizes...
Ari Kohen has an excellent post today discussing Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new policy prohibiting working from home: I don’t even think about this issue from the perspective of someone.
It is always a depressing experience to read a comment thread having anything to do with feminism and find out what professional and amateur misogynists think feminism consists of. For.
I am agnostic over the question at hand in this article, whether Anne Hathaway is a good actress. This is largely because I can't think of a reason why I would watch most of her movies unless the wife wanted to go. Rachel Getting Married was...
It's nice that the Yankees are embracing what we here at LGM have known forever: Part of the Yankees' argument: a concession that in the baseball world, they are, in.
The Onion comes to life. I'm encouraged to see that the international sport of ice fishing is taking proactive steps to weed out performance enhancing steroids and human growth hormones, with.