How to Tap the Missus

When I was 13 I was looking at an old Penthouse out behind school and Dale Aiken said, "€œThis is nothing. When you"€™re married, you get to see your wife's tits anytime you ...

Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis

Boxing: From Sweet Science to Sour

Briefly home from boarding school back in 1951, I went to a bar with a phony draft card, ordered a beer, and watched Rocky Marciano knock out my idol Joe Louis. Joe was 37 and ...

Life at Half-Speed

I’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female relative of mine"€”not long married, infant daughter"€”was diagnosed with cancer and ...

Tehran Comes to Hollywood

The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival awards, the Best Foreign ...

Glitter From the Gutter

Not much is happening in the celebrity gutter this week unless you count the big pregnancy rumors from Snooki of Jersey Shore fame. Her boyfriend Jionni (nice spelling) LaValle is ...

How a Soldier Thinks

There are over seven thousand dead in Syria now. What are the Syrian soldiers thinking? The last post Marie Colvin made before her death tells us they"€™re "€œshelling a city ...

Davy Jones

Don”€™t Stop Daydream Believin”€™

They were completely fake, they were mostly unlovable, other people wrote their songs"€”and they were still better than The Beatles. I don"€™t give The Monkees much thought, ...

Smash Nomophobia!

Nomophobia, or "€œno-mobile-phobia,"€ sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"€”the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...

Dmitri Nabokov

Skiing With a Lady Named Fear

GSTAAD—It’s early in the silvery morning light as I look out my window up here in the heights. A batallion of wispy white clouds hides behind the surrounding mountains—a ...

Andrew Breitbart: 1969-2012

It's stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was ...

How England Helped Start the Great War

A vastly underexplored topic is the British government's role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally ...

The Far East Rises in the West

The white/black test-score gap has been in the news since the 1960s, yet much like Mark Twain supposedly said about the weather, despite all the talk, nobody seems able to do much ...

Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog

Crimes of Passion, Golden Statues and Fashion

Although most critics lambasted this year's Oscar show, I roared with laughter. The jokes were funny. Some were even hilarious. It was a ginormous improvement on last year's ...

Sacha Baron Cohen

The Not-so-Great Dictator

So Jewish people don"€™t run Hollywood after all? That was my first snarky thought when I heard about the flap between comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Talladega Nights) and ...

Brandon White

The Gang That Couldn’t Punch Straight

Is it ever permissible to find a "€œhate crime"€ funny? Granted, "€œfunny"€ is in the eye of the beholder, and I"€™d wager that any pair of eyeballs not irreparably ...

Anthony Quinn

The Great Hollywood Brownout

Many people claim that they pay no attention to race, but then along comes the Jeremy Lin story to prove again that most folks do. Wikipedia, that embodiment of 21st-century ...


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