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Oct.03.2010
Film Producer Rob Reiner, “Movies on this planet”
“I prefer to make movies about people on this planet.” Rob Reiner responded with his winning smile to a small cadre of press/media reps assembled in an intimate gathering to ask a few questions that might not be part of the everyday media. The...
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Sep.13.2010
Eat, Pray, Love: As a book, it bored me. And as a movie, it seemed painfully boring (and Julia Roberts does not bore me).
TrueBlood bores me but vampires do not.
The Shipping News bored me.
Saturday Night Live has bored me for decades.
Madonna has always bored me.
Al Gore never bored me.
George...
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Sep.08.2010
My grandmother always said that if you didn't have something nice to say about someone then blog about them.
We writers strive to create works of artistic, entertainment and yes, monetary value. So it's disconcerting to see so many in pop culture and even society skipping the creative part and...
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Aug.26.2010
A comedian once pointed out that there's little humor in an ordinary person slipping on a banana peel, but we laugh hard when someone rich or pompous falls.
Tiger Woods' tour of too many mistresses officially sank his marriage. LiLo's in and out of jail. Mel Gibson's domestic rants become public...
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Aug.09.2010
NEWSWEEK's article about J.D. Salinger is in part because of his famous book, The Catcher In The Rye, in part because of the mystique grown about the reclusive writer. And partly because of two new literary event regarding Salinger, a two-hour documentary, Salinger, and a new, extensive biography, ...
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Jul.24.2010
“I have a fan. I have a fan.” The puppy struts around proudly, nose haughtily in the air. “But fans make me sneeze. Blows up all that dust in this filthy, filthy house. You otta clean it, Mom. Filthy, filthy, eck!” The Princess has spoken to the Commoner. This commoner is more than...
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Jul.12.2010
What demarcates bad taste from message in art? Is a painting that shows the corpse of a well-respected political leader undergoing an autopsy revolting? Would it be offensive if the person was not a known name?
A Johannesburg artist, Yiull Damaso, has parodied "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr...
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Jul.10.2010
I spent yesterday reading papers about celebrities and fame. As I read, I noticed that many of my students seemed pretty angry at celebrities. They argued that people were only famous because of media, and that it was media's fault that these unworthy folk were in front of us all the time (...
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Jun.07.2010
Just added to the Holland Park Press website:
Last week, figuratively speaking, Sarah Ferguson was on the couch with Oprah Winfrey. Oprah’s website showed a few excerpts. One of the video clips opened with a constipation remedy: ‘To enable you to be yourself again.’ A commercial with a sense of...
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Jun.01.2010
When do you know you’ve arrived as an author? When you’re invited to contribute a recipe. But even as I basked in the pleasure of being asked, I did not anticipate finding myself in such a respectable company.
The Brandeis National Committee (an organization that fund-raises specifically for...
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