News

The Week That Perished

The Week That Perished

SPECIAL “DELIVER US FROM CHAOS” EDITION The past week brought a near-catastrophe in...

Relationships

The Art of Not Working Yourself to Death

The Art of Not Working Yourself to Death

Though it’s medically possible to work oneself to death—especially among the...

Borderland

Letters of a Screenwriter in Trouble

Letters of a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, This week it’s all about INT.  THE DOGHOUSE. Yes, we know it well....

Living the Dream

10 Problems With Having Immigrant Parents

10 Problems With Having Immigrant Parents

I’m a middle-class child of immigrants. I’m told we were poor when my parents emigrated...

Derbtown

Three’s a Charm

Three’s a Charm

Probably it’s just my simpleminded arithmomania, but years ending in the numeral...

Obit

A Farewell to Bunky

A Farewell to Bunky

The only man I know who belonged to more gentlemen’s clubs than Eddie Ulmann was the...

Obit

Dancing on a Hero’s Grave

Dancing on a Hero’s Grave

As a college student I would buy copies of The New Yorker to sample the sparkling prose...

Hollywood

The Importance of Being Earnestly Bitchy

The Importance of Being Earnestly Bitchy

The golden age of television sitcoms petered out in the late 1990s when NBC couldn’t...

News

The Week That Perished

The Week That Perished

Last Week’s Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories HATEFUL COMMENTS FROM...

Borderland

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, I’m mindful of the time we were rechristened. In Puerto Vallarta. The...

High Life

Une Étoile est Née

Une Étoile est Née

CANNES—It’s raining, the stars are hiding, the hacks and paparazzi are waterlogged...

Relationships

Gays Didn’t Kill Marriage, Divorce Did

Gays Didn’t Kill Marriage, Divorce Did

On Tuesday, French iconoclast Dominique Venner blew his head off inside the Cathedral...

By the sword

The Freedom of Disunity

The Freedom of Disunity

Last week I gave a talk on my pet topic of bullfighting in front of various politicos...

Cultural Caviar

The Italian Invasion of American Culture

The Italian Invasion of American Culture

Ever since Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, the D-Day landings in northern...

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