It's taken me a while to get to it, but right now I'm enjoying the hell out of Jimmy Breslin's brisk, droll The Good Rat, which is, among other things,…
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I might as well just come right out with it, people: I've been in a bit of a funk lately. Dunno if it's the heat, or the fact that I'm…
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It would seem that one John Derbyshire finds you physically attractive. UPDATE: By popular, or maybe I should say semi-popular demand, my Ellen Page Cannes anecdote. Not that the above bit…
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Over at his Hollywood Elsewhere website, the feisty Jeffrey Wells (pictured above—no, just kidding, we all know that J.W. doesn't wear that much makeup...) put up what I consider an…
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Boy, today's New York Times Magazine is quite the feast of putative conundrums. First and foremost there's the cover story on musician M.I.A., who's so thoroughly full of it that…
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"Hollywood or Bust is to The Girl Can't Help It as —making due allowance—L'ecole des femmes is to Le Misanthrope. Taking Howard Hawks' beloved theme of a journey (although the…
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