
Rosewater movie review (London Film Festival)
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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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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This is not journalism. It’s not even fiction. It’s fan fiction.
…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…
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…
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…