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Mar.16.2013
Photo: from kirkusreviews.com
Guilt is Kellerman's best book in quite some time. I'd long given up on the author and on the series; things had just gotten too graphic, too gross, too judgmental. In short, Kellerman had gotten lazy, and his prose spoke of too much self-opinion and attitude and not...
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Feb.19.2013
When I read about Helen Hunt getting a baby due to an ‘uplifting experience’, I adduced it must have been close to Immaculate Conception.
What transpired, instead, was a combination of superstition and auto-suggestion. The uplifting experience was a ‘lift’. On the David...
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Feb.04.2013
Here's an interesting bit of perspective from Mac McGee's blog (see link below).
Literary writers have always seemed a bit above the the fray, I suppose, but writers such as Jonathan Franzen carry ethics into the realm of snobbery. Here's hoping someone can set their feet on the ground once more...
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Dec.16.2012
He had the most beautiful fingers. With head bent slightly tuning the sitar, he looked like a mother putting a child to sleep. Ravi Shankar is asleep forever. He died on Tuesday, December 11, at 92.
Frozen in death, memories come alive. He made the sitar, essentially an accompanying instrument...
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Oct.01.2012
The casting couch is a reality few want to accept.
Her life is pornography. Even as their bare bodies are entwined for a few minutes of pleasure, Mahi Arora is capturing the scene on her camera.
I know a wannabe Mahi from years ago. Strange hands splashed whipped cream in her cleavage,...
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Jun.09.2012
Joni Mitchell, by Mark Bego
image via greenobles.com
Biographies about living persons, particularly celebrities, are problematic, well, because of the obvious – that life isn’t yet complete. It’s unclear that Bego had Mitchell’s approval to write this book, and, as I suspect here,...
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May.01.2012
Recently, Mitt Romney’s supporters produced a political advertisement portraying President Obama as the celebrity president. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijxmrgtUU8). The advertisement shows him dancing, singing, drinking a beer and swearing; all activities in which the general population...
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Mar.15.2012
I am always interested in people’s reactions to episodes of “Who Do You Think You Are?”, the television show which follows a celebrity’s search for his or her ancestors.
Usually there are plenty of positive comments, interspersed by remarks asking for more information, or profferring same, or...
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Feb.29.2012
Angelina Jolie would have been an enigma, except that she chose to take the road to everywhere. Her leg flash is only the latest ‘phenomenon’.
Jolie’s sorties into being different are really sharp tactics, for after a while one can only do so much with goldfish lips or pillow mouth or...
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Jan.13.2012
Never one to miss a play on words, the Sun ran this headline during the past week: ‘I’ve been Edam fool but I’ll be Gouda from now on’, obviously referring to Dutch cheese.
We were shown a picture of TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson being driven away from their six-bedroom Buckinghamshire country...
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