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on a daily basis. Their response so far has been so lackadaisical that’s almost as if they want to be Swift Boated.

Last week, Dan Schneider interviewed me for a podcast on Tallulah. My fellow guests were two generation- Z women: Julia Schnarr, an undergrad who’s made a student film about her and wants to make a feature one, and Carrie Chappell, who’s … Continue reading →

Grandma Sallie [a/k/a Sarah, born Zoli], who claimed she’d gotten virtually zero parenting lodged in close tenement quarters with many other siblings and two hard-working parents, doted on my father.  And yet she felt compelled to remind him that her … Continue reading →

From my father’s autobiography.  Will annotate shortly: “Once reading to me for bed when I was very young, my mother told me what she said was a joke. A little boy about my age was Was nervously, hesitantly, fearfully standing … Continue reading →

They scam  potential ticket-buyers, myself among them as of last week, by trying to simulate the actual look of performing arts venue web sites, then charging outlandish prices for tickets that are 500 % more than the actual prices.

I’m tired of hearing kvetches about how the major classical performing arts institutions don’t do enough to attract a younger audience. The reality is that our society has done everything it can to prevent young potential audiences  from ever gravitating toward … Continue reading →

Even Rachel Maddow still refers to the treasonous slough of right-wing media as the “conservative media.”  Don’t do that. There is nothing conservative about a nihilist movement.  Were the Bolsheviks “conservative”?

but we’d like you to lay off the homophobia. As he creamed over Donald Trump’s alleged hardness last week, Watters accompanied his swoons with the claim that he had an “unblemished record” of heterosexuality.

on the condition that they agree to sacrifice every drop of personal integrity and dignity that they may have once possessed. Shameless buffoon Watters flashes  a coy leer as he tells his viewers how “hard” Trump looks in his cartoonish … Continue reading →

One of the remarkable paradoxes of Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja.”