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TIMELY & TIMELESS
For the new New York Sun, I preview Lincoln Center’s revival of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth.
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DESANTIS IS RUTHLESS BUT NOT VERY INTELLIGENT,
and very, very tacky. He’s just got a bottomless appetite for power and the a priori credential for rise in the GOP: an utter lack of morality or ethics.Cf. Mick Mulvaney. DeSantis doesn’t have an original thought in his mind. … Continue reading
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CBS “NEWS”
There are few people less qualified to be part of any genuine news outlet’s programming than criminal liar Mick Mulvaney. He lied to Congress. He is without ethics or morality. He committed one defiant assault on the Constitution after another. … Continue reading
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TRUMP GOES FROM BEING A PARODY TO SELF PARODY
Now he’s braying that he only had sex with Stormy as a favor to her, because she needed him so badly. (In a manner of speaking.)
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SO HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ASKING CHRIS ROCK HOW HIS JAW FELT?
Sunday night was really a staggering moment demonstrating once again, how far this country has fallen–and our entertainment industry with it. Why were all the stars going over to comfort Will Smith, whereas Chris Rock was simply left to nurse … Continue reading
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PROBABLY TIME TO CLOSE DOWN THE OSCARS, ANYWAY
Two nights ago may have been the nadir, but the entire proceedings are so dated and so corrupt, and the dresses so awful . . Is this really how Hollywood wants to present itself to the world?
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CBS HIRES DOCUMENTED SCAM ARTIST MICK MULVANEY
as an “analyst.” We thought that CBS couldn’t go lower than it had under Les Moonves. It has.
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INSTEAD OF COLLUDING WITH TRUMP TO SMEAR HUNTER BIDEN
Why doesn’t the Kremlin finally release the kompromat they’ve got on Mr. Ex-President? Hey Russia, if you’re listening. . . .
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DO THE WORDS “YOU CAN’ T TAKE IT WITH YOU”
mean anything to our billionaire oligarchs? Apparently not, at least not to most of them.
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ACADEMY NEEDS TO TELL WILL SMITH
that he doesn’t keep his Oscar unless he goes into counseling. That also, btw, is what the board of New York City Ballet needed to tell Peter Martins after he was arresting for hitting Darci Kistler–no counseling, no more directorship. … Continue reading
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