Rick McGinnis writes: Turturro used to be the go-to guy if you wanted someone who was tightly wound and intense to very near a point of self-parody. (Think of Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski.) Nowadays he … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2014
This is gonna be awesome… ‘Wicked As They Come’ (1957) airs tonight on TCM
This basically looks like Darling, which came out almost 10 years later and gets all the love. In addition to showcasing Dahl as a seductress, Wicked as They Come was somewhat ahead of its … [Read more...]
Nick DiPaolo on the Emmys and race relations in America
PLUS -- I started cry-laughing around 45:00: … [Read more...]
Niall Ferguson, please pick up the lavender courtesy phone…
Cough: You’ll see a 40-something TOFA [Too Old for Abercrombie] wearing these clothes and my friends and I will laugh,” the man told Hajek. “You can’t control getting … [Read more...]
Agreed: ‘Miley’s Date Deserves To Be Homeless’
Awesome: Instead of propagandizing young people with the fear-mongering lie how a homeless person is just the same as anyone else but for a few bad breaks, Miley would have done our culture a greater … [Read more...]
‘It’s not up to David Chase whether Tony is alive or dead’
Or: You didn't kill that. Sounds trivial, but actually one of the most revealing glimpses into the left-wing mind you'll ever see. … [Read more...]
How many times did Coppola and Scorcese watch ‘Pay or Die’ (1960)?
This 1960 period piece tells the true story of New York City's first Italian-American police captain, and his astonishingly brave but ultimately futile attempts to wipe out the Black Hand in turn of the century Little Italy, before they could become the Mafia of today. Still affecting and even … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: ‘I learn that gangsta rap impresario Suge Knight was shot in West Hollywood…’
Dinesh D’Souza: Imagine America–And The Conservative Movement—Without Him
James Kirkpatrick writes: D’Souza also pulls the old Conservatism Inc. trick of enlisting … [Read more...]
‘So, a gay stripper walks into a top children’s charity and asks for a job…’
‘But he never thought anyone would take offense at the collection of mostly Native American scalps…’
‘Dawkins now just telling random strangers why he hates them’
(Barely) satire: According to local residents, a … [Read more...]