I call "false advertising" on the Washingtonian. Its July 24 piece by Benjamin Freed promises that we"ll "Meet the Guy Who's Protesting a Maryland Theater's Production of The Producers." But it doesn"t quite deliver. The "guy" in question, one Jeffrey Imm, is ...
Meet Stephanie Guthrie. (Serious question: Why DO they all look alike?) In 2012, Guthrie learned of a crude videogame in which players punched an image of bothersome feminist blogger and #GamerGate bogeywoman Anita Sarkeesian until the screen turned red. So, basically a digital voodoo ...
"But then there"d be no story." That was my mother's singsong refrain whenever I"d complain that some film we were watching made no sense. To this day, my biggest movie beef can be distilled to one inelegant, juvenile question: "Why don"t they just kill That ...
Courtney Love was right, and she was robbed. Thirty years ago, while still an unknown, she campaigned relentlessly to win the role she quite reasonably believed she was born to play: that of the clownishly made-up, blond, vulgar paramour of a doomed junkie rock star. Director Alex Cox picked ...
That Monica Lewinsky got a standing ovation after giving a speech isn"t the part of the story I"d have picked for my headline. It would be news if Monica"or your second grader, or the cast of a tepid community theater production of Carousel"didn"t get one. Formerly reserved ...
What I don"t know about sex can fill a book. (Literally!) But somehow, contrary to the natural order of things, I became more naive as I entered my fifth decade. For example: Back in 2010, Toronto Life ran a salacious profile called "The Secret Life of a Bay Street Hooker."(Americans, ...
I owe everything I know about British seaside resorts (such as the unfortunately named Blackpool) to three pseudo"kitchen sink movies and a single Squeeze song. No wonder I can"t fathom why anyone would care to "holiday" amongst such grim, press-ganged gaiety. Not even at Margate, ...
Thirty-nine years ago this week, New York Magazine printed a slice of wannabe-Wolfe reportage that spawned a star-making movie, one of the biggest-selling record albums ever, and numerous regrettable fashion and beauty trends"in short, an utterly unavoidable international pop culture phenomenon ...
Rich Lowry wants you to know that, "No, National Review didn"t endorse gay marriage," you silly. Alas, he was ten days late, and now the magazine's spring fundraiser is likely many thousands of dollars short. That's because on May 19, National Review"s managing editor Jason Lee ...
Writing "It's been a bad week for white professors" is a lazy, hacky opening. Especially because it cues up, at least in my movie-addled mind, Addison DeWitt's weary counterpunch about "the history of the world for the last twenty years." Of course, last week wound up ...
