Ian Hamilton, Writers in Hollywood : One day Ben Hecht got a call from Bernie Hyman, MGM production head, asking for help on a movie about to be shot. “I won’t tell you the plot,” Hyman said. “I’ll just give you what we’re up against. The hero and heroine fall . . . . Continue Reading »
I keep warning that this “nature rights” movement is beginning to bite, and people keep rolling their eyes. But New Zealand just granted rights to a river. From the New Zealand Herald story:Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it . . . . Continue Reading »
So Romney entered the convention season very slightly behind Obama. Romney got either a modest bounce (in Rasmussen) or a nonexistent bounce (in Gallup) from his convention. Obama got either a modest bounce (in Gallup) or a large bounce (in Rasmussen) from his convention. The result is that, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Very boring. I had trouble focusing. And I like this stuff more than most. 2. When he is talking about domestic policy (especially in the first half of his speech), he sounds like a guy asking for a first term, even when he is looking back on the first term he is still having. 3. He . . . . Continue Reading »
The New England Journal of Medicine has become a leftwing journal on issues of public policy. Demonstrating its progressive bona fides, it just published an article—based on a symposium sponsored by the hard left think tank, Center for American Progress—proposing ways to . . . . Continue Reading »
The last Songbook post considered rock Fame and its relations to Celebrity and Honorable Ambition with plenty of help from political philosophy, and a little from ALMOST FAMOUS, too; moving back to the film (which is proving rich enough for, look out, two more parts after this!), this part will be . . . . Continue Reading »
John Allen is perhaps the best Catholic journalist we have. Measured, reflective, incisive, learned, accurate. A couple days ago he wrote a piece at the National Catholic Reporter on ” Politics and the Global War on Christians .” Coming from anyone else, it may sound alarmist (even . . . . Continue Reading »
The book is about Pulp and what Hatherley considers the band’s main themes: class, sex, and urbanism. The following are all direct quotations. Jarvis Cocker, uniquely among male Pop lyricists, was and is a great writer of female characters, which mixes sometimes uncomfortably with songs of . . . . Continue Reading »
The reviews of the Obama speech are getting more negative from both the right and the left. The president is all defensive, the claim is, in the Carter mode, and he was darn close to playing the hope-being-replaced-by-malaise card. And the whining! Nothing Obama faces is anything like the bloody . . . . Continue Reading »
So last night’s Obama speech got mostly mediocre-to-bad reviews. I’ll try to see for myself tomorrow and the polls that come out next week will give us some idea of what most people saw. At least as important as the Obama speech was the mediocre-to-bad jobs report. . . . . Continue Reading »
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