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I was a little young for Elvis, and was already a huge Ricky Nelson fan from his pre-rocking days on Ozzie and Harriet (Buddy Holly did not have a weekly sit-com), so when he started making records he was the guy for me. He doubled up with film performances shown [...]
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Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:30pm EST
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It is a little known tidbit in movie and popular culture lore that the first screening of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was set for Novemember 22, 1963. Now, what else happened on that day? Yes, you all know. Naturally the screening was postponed and then, because of the topic of [...]
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Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:59am EST
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Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:13am EST
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 Forget the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars or even the Cy Young awards. What really captures my attention is the annual worst-sex-writing in fiction prize put on by Literary Review. Well, this year's finalists have just been announced. As usual there are some distinguished writers there, such [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:42pm EST
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Wife and I will be attending performance on Sunday in Westchester of the greatest "religious" musical piece ever, Beethoven's Mass in C Major. This is saying something for yours truly, what with my budding atheism. But the mass is so incredible it trumps everything and must shake any non-believers non-beliefs. [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:42pm EST
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 NYT just out with big piece on Glenn Beck announcing today that he is going "activist" in an even bigger way: "Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. He says he will promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of conventions across [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:59pm EST
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 No one goes off quite like Matt Taibbi and now he has gone off on poor Sarah Palin. He does give her her due as a "gifted" politicians who leaves a Rush Limbaugh "in the dust." His conclusion: She is the country?s first WWE [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:15pm EST
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 Sen. Landrieu just came out for allowing the Democrats' health reform bill to come to a vote (without committing to actually voting for it). That left Sen. Lincoln of Arkansas to possibly cast the deciding vote. And, at about 2:30 pm, she said, yes, she would [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:25pm EST
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 About the last person we expected my magazine to interview out in the heartland was Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher. But the intrepid former E&P intern and reporter (he covered both the 2004 and 2008 political conventions and Obama's inauguration for us, and also was part of [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:59am EST
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The Best of Roger Sterling's one-liners.  [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:29am EST
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Following up his hit impression of a junior Glenn Beck, Cartman returns with a lament that his America is gone--there are too many "minorities at my water park." And "even the authorities are minorities."  [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:08pm EST
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The movie you've been waiting for arriving: "Sneak peeks" this weekend, they say, web cast on Monday. Official site here. Debut in D.C. on Dec. 2 at, natch, the Reagan Building. Trailer--this is not a parody-- for the "Tea Party Movie" follows.  [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:29pm EST
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 Coming this Sunday in the NYT Magazine, a Q & A with that lone House Republican who voted for the Democrats' health reform plan two weeks ago. Of course, this is Rep. Joseph Cao of Lousiana. He tells Deborah Solomon that he has been scolded [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:33am EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:48am EST
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This gets my vote for now: Beethoven's opus 97, "Archduke" trio, 3rd movment, with Jacqueline DuPre, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman. Eight minutes here, hit link for part II on the YouTube page when you finish Part I.  [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:30am EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:03am EST
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 Everybody remembers Seymour Hersh's detective work for print but who took the now famous photos of the My Lai massacre, which first appeared 40 years ago today? The combat photographer whose pictures of a massacre of Vietnamese civilians were published in Cleveland's Plain Dealer 40 years ago [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:36am EST
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