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Rosewater movie review (London Film Festival)

Fri, Nov 14, 2014
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Jon Stewart’s first film is passionate and principled, as I expected, but also hopeful, almost serene, and even gently amusing, which I did not.

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Minnie Mouse is too fat and too short, apparently (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Oct 19, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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oh good god, Honey Boo Boo is a real thing (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Aug 08, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Is ‘Newsweek’s undead-Diana cover a journalistic abomination, a terrible mistake, or merely good clean fun with a dead celeb?

Thu, Jun 30, 2011
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This is not journalism. It’s not even fiction. It’s fan fiction.

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calling bullshit: on Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post…

Mon, Jul 26, 2010
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…and on Newsweek’s fawning profile of Huffington, which declares that “The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism.” And that future — though Newsweek will not say it, and barely even acknowledges this fact — is that journalism will be the purview of the idle rich, and not a field in which … more…

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question of the day: Is it homophobic to suggest that gay actors shouldn’t play straight roles?

Thu, May 13, 2010
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I noted recently in connection with the Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor movie I Love You Phillip Morris, a gay love story starring two straight men, that the writers of the film pointed out that they couldn’t hire gay stars because no one is gay in Hollywood… or at least not out about their sexuality, anyway. It’s … more…

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question of the day: What’s your best tip for being cool at Comic Con?

Wed, Jul 22, 2009
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Newsweek has a piece up today offering “Seven Ways to Be Cool at Comic Con” — and its definition of cool is definitely… bizarre. This is what Newsweek thinks you’ll be competing with: Today, the cheerleading squad has gatecrashed the cafeteria’s geek corner: Gwyneth Paltrow goes to Comic Con, for Spock’s sake. And Jessica Alba, … more…

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