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Remember ex-CBS head Les Moonves’s comment about his wall-to-wall Trump campaign coverage maybe being not so good for America, but good for CBS? Moonves should have been forced to resign for that crack and that belief espoused, long before he … Continue reading →

I just finished reading Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome for the second time. I thought it was the most haunting, romantic thing, just as I did nearly  fifty years ago. Is that why I’m so drawn to New England, or to … Continue reading →

When you’re no longer the Mayor selling out the city to international investors,  or no longer the owner of a coffee business selling over priced brew, nobody really cares what you have to say–unless you’ve REALLY got something to say. … Continue reading →

that Pat McBride Lousada had had such a varied career. Here’s Roslyn Sulcas’s obituary of Lady Lousada in the Times.

I saw New York City Ballet’s penultimate performance of Balanchine’s Orpheus. Penultimate for this season, that is.  It was the second time I’d seen it this season. I hope they bring it back. One of the reasons the audience doesn’t … Continue reading →

Which are anatomized by Paul Krugman in yesterday’s Times. Call them an out-of-touch billionaire who doesn’t want to pay his fair share of income taxes. QED.  Case closed.

and spent years working for his Dad (Mick’s the self-made, bootstrap type) in his scandal-plagued real-estate business. Then he hooked his talons into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, shredding their protections for victims of financial fraud. He’s perfect, then, to … Continue reading →

Last month, Grace Ashford in the Times reported on the extremely lax and lenient approach that NYC agencies have taken toward hideous abuse by NYC landlords. The irony is that it is primarily rent-regulated tenants who dare complain about intolerable … Continue reading →

Walter Srebnick’s four-part seminar on Alfred Hitchcock.

Andy Rowell at Oil Change International: “The numbers do not lie: Trump is killing his voters. Trump is making our kids sick. Trump is killing the planet, at the same time as giving his polluting friends in the fossil fuel … Continue reading →