Dear Suzy,I guess that probably most of the people who read this blog aren't aware of who you are—Christ, I just can't write about you in the past tense—and of…
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Yesterday Instapundit founder and Pajamas Media personality Glenn Reynolds, using the byline "Glenn Harlan Reynolds," contributed a rumination on the Roman Polanski case to the Washington Examiner. Reynolds theory is that…
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Joseph Wiseman demonstrates the "palms up" gesture for Kirk Douglas and William Bendix in William Wyler's Detective Story, 1951; Michael Strong, behind Wiseman, is clearly impressed. One thing that readers…
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Adam Arkin and Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man. Photo: Wilson Webb. Courtesy of Focus Features. This notion that Joel and Ethan Coen consider themselves superior to the characters they…
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At this week's Topics, there are...topics. Slow news week that it was, I suppose you can imagine what at least one of them is. And after that, I leave the…
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From The Golem, 1920, Paul Wegener and Carl Boese.Which reminds me, I gotta get in gear and write up the Coens' fabulous A Serious Man soon. Not at all a…
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