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This 'n That recommends you add Paul Newman's Hud to your Netflix queue: Alma, (Patricia Neal) the Bannon's cook and housekeepe...

Here's a link to his website . A sample: Apparently, while I was on my two week trip to the States, Noam Chomsky died and was resurrecte...

From The Washington Monthly Iht Wikipedia): But according to all accounts, the Iraq Study Group is Baker's show, with the assembled cas...

A few years ago, R. Emmett Tyrell, then-editor of the American Spectator, published a book called The Conservative Crackup. Basically, it w...

Flying to LA on JetBlue, I had a real festival of cable TV-watching and NYC television channels --I didn't realize that Ernie Anastos an...

With his car, in 2003. George Russell Weller, then 86, killed 10 people when he plowed through a farmer's market in Santa Monica in 200...

From the Cook Political Report of October 13th: Category 5 Hurricane Heads for House GOP Let's get the disclaimer out of the way: there...

Michele Malkin thinks Angelina Jolie doesn't know enough about corruption at the UN to do a credible job as "goodwill ambassador...

Someone I know and I had lunch today at Patisserie Poupon in Georgetown. Not only was it delicious, they told me that their pastries are ba...

The playoffs are certainly exciting--Glavine didn't live up to the hype. Even the NY Daily News is writing about St. Louis Pitcher Chri...

Oliver North says President Bush may put Daniel Ortega's Sandinistas back in power in Managua, come November: Hopefully, the most recen...

In a review of the literary output of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Christopher Hitchens maintains that Orhan Pa...

Thank goodness for the Internet Movie Database entry on Helen Mirren. It told me that she is of Russian ancestry--her given name is Elena L...

How could I have missed seeing William Wyler's 1952 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie ? Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jone...

After pointing out that, "After all, Grameen Bank has been going for 30 years now and Bangladesh is still one of the poorest countries ...

Concerned about civilian casualties in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, or Chechnya? Then I'd recommend watching Rock Hudson'...

Last weekend, I went to Chicago with someone I know. We had a very cultural time. First night, we saw Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakepeare and Fl...

Published in translation by The Independent (UK) : Dozens of files cross my desk every day. They are copies of criminal cases against peopl...

Story in Haaretz.

In the new issue of The New Yorker, Ian Parker profiles the former British Trotskyist-turned-Neoconservative. Unfortunately, the article is ...