Why watch a movie about a failed architect surrounded by losers (#UncleBillyMustDie) when you can watch this cool looking Ayn Rand adaptation instead? Of course, [Read more...]
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Ayn Rand and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (not really)
Yeah, it's not a "Scare" if the "Reds" are real -- as [Read more...]
It’s a Not So Wonderful Life — and don’t get me started on Ralphie
Commenters at HotAir are outraged by a NYT piece by a guy who doesn't like It's A Wonderful Life. (Actually, that's too simplistic a description; you have to read the whole thing, and I … [Read more...]
‘Rev. Wright is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life’
That's funny, Ed Driscoll, because after the Daily Caller broke the Journolist story yesterday, I kept thinking: "It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're … [Read more...]
Remember when you thought the Wildrose Party was so wonderful?
‘You are the most wonderful thing Steve Jobs made in his storied career…’
SplendorQuest: This is an amazing thing, but I will bet you never thought to think of it until now. You’ve heard capitalism derided and denounced your entire life, and yet you live your life expressing a bored indifference for the … [Read more...]
Two cheers: Canadian pastor’s lifetime speech ban lifted
Mark Steyn writes: A couple of years back, the Reverend Stephen Boissoin committed the crime of writing a letter to a local newspaper objecting to various aspects of "the … [Read more...]
Priest tended to survivor of Ted Bundy — who said rosary saved her life
Damian Thompson blogs the story: When Fr Kerr approached the near-catatonic girl, she told him that her mother had made her promise before going off to … [Read more...]
‘High Sierra’ (1941) is a sort of anti-Grapes of Wrath
My column about all the lies Steinbeck shoved into his novel The Grapes of Wrath is currently in the Taki's Magazine Top 5. One of the characters is "Rosasharn," a wholesome, saintly teenaged … [Read more...]
From our bulging ‘I liked Scrooge better before’ file… (video)
That weird moment when you realize you actually sort of like the songs in Bob Roberts. And that Jimmy Kimmel's "Fox News presents 'It's a Wonderful Life'" makes [Read more...]
‘That’s all well and good for sheep, but what are WE to do?’
Just reading all the synopses of Rod Dreher's latest book gives me hives (same with his last, Crunchy Cons, one). So thank you, Ross … [Read more...]
The great Gloria Grahame
Oh yes you do: she's the town (sort of) tramp in It's a Wonderful Life, and she won a well-deserved Oscar as the writer's wife, the quintessential ladylike Southern belle who's a "whore in the bedroom," in [Read more...]