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Whatever happened to the femme fatale? From Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity to Kathleen Turner in Body Heat and Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction, the silky seductress who ...
Whatever happened to the femme fatale? From Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity to Kathleen Turner in Body Heat and Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction, the silky seductress who ...
So the Queen joked that (re)meeting Canada's new 43-year-old prime minister, Justin Trudeau, made her "feel so old." Yeah, well, that line forms behind me, Grandma. I feel like I"ve aged ten years since ...
The Week’s Most Abominable, Improbable, and Unconscionable Headlines IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR AN ASPIRING RAPPER Although one can’t swing a baseball bat these days without accidentally hitting a hip-hop ...
In Douglas Murray’s 2019 book The Madness of Crowds, the popular conservative author revealed something strange about the Google Image results when he typed the phrase “European Art” into the wholly unbiased search ...
It seemed like such a kind offer. They were going to the same house party a hundred miles or so north of London. The girl—seventeen years old, blonde—didn’t own a car. He—a decade older, boisterous, full of charm, ...
The Week's Most Disreputable, Objectionable, and Unmentionable Headlines ELECTIONS 2014: THE WHITES GO RED After the confetti settled from last week's midterm elections, the GOP emerged with a 60-seat advantage over ...
Isn't it great to have the media complaining about what a Republican is doing, instead of what he's tweeting? The New York Times recently did a major investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis' suspension last August of a ...
My hands shook as I spot-checked my dress blues. I took the two brown paper bags and walked toward the memorial. The monument was wreathed in sentiment. Bouquets of flowers. Beer bottles. Little shots of whiskey. A man ...
Nikki Haley's announcement that she was running for president reminded me of my lifelong dream to move to India, so I can boss around Indians and tell them to stop worshipping cows and rats. That was the main point of what ...
Last week was a good one, so it’s kind of dickish to make fun, but it’s really amusing how quickly some of you went from, in 2016, “We’re gonna get tired of winning,” to nervously awaiting the Youngkin/McAuliffe ...
The Week's Most Baneful, Painful, and Disdainful Headlines U.S. GAMBLES $6 TRILLION ON IRAQ, LOSES The United States military spent eight years tearing Iraq to pieces in order to "stabilize" it, only to see the ...
In a few days, a trial will begin in the Senate of the United States to decide if the former President Donald J. Trump is guilty or not guilty of inciting an insurrection against the country he led for four years. It ...
This is about life up high. A Brit rapscallion and mischief-maker gossip columnist, Peter McKay, recently diverted from type and wrote about how great it is to pilot a plane. (He’s taking lessons and has flown solo.) ...
Someone must have noticed that I waste a lot of my time, because I received today, through the Internet, an offer of a new method of something called personal time management. The new method was necessary, apparently, ...
Every day is a reenactment of my book, Resistance Is Futile. Trump does something stupid (or many things) and the media say, We can top that! Trump fumbles the ball, followed by the media throwing an interception, then ...
Regardless of what dog you have in the Ukrainian turmoil, it is clear that Putin's plan is crude, transparent, and guaranteed to anger nearly everyone. Does anyone really believe that these "Ukrainian separatists" ...
Were it not for the fact that I have been losing things from the time I possessed anything to lose, I should have taken my inability to find my credit card recently as a sign of incipient cognitive decline. I ...
The Week's Most Temperamental, Detrimental, and Occidental Headlines BRUCE GENDER Last Friday night, nearly 40 years after establishing himself as the world's greatest athlete by winning the Olympic decathlon, Bruce Jenner ...
Over the past few months, alleged Russian hackers have revealed that the Clinton camp defrauded the Democratic primary, sold access to the executive branch to state sponsors of terrorism, transmitted classified information ...
The Week's Most Dubious, Salubrious, and Lugubrious Headlines THE DAY THE REDS SILENCED HOLLYWOOD On Friday the FBI announced that North Korean authorities were behind the cyber-terrorist group Guardians of Peace (AKA ...
I get it, you’re tired of the midterms. Time to move on! After all, the GOP controls the House...by such a slim majority one softball shooter with decent aim could blow it to hell. But hey—Boebert won! Yippee! Time to ...
Brought before a House inquisition, MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber burbled a recantation of his beliefs about how that triumph of liberalism had been achieved. Yet, something needs to be said in ...
"In victory, magnanimity... in defeat, defiance." That counsel about human conflict comes from Winston Churchill. And President Donald Trump, given all he has endured for five years from those piously pleading now for a ...
I was busy explaining why the election was not a disaster to a 23-year-old American girl by the name of Jennifer. She is a Spectator reader and wants to work in England, preferably in politics. She called the results the ...
