"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" Throughout the entire show, Rotten was in fine form, looking equally amused and angry while delivering the goods. “If you can put up with that, you can put up with … [Read more...]
‘[A] 445-page report on her alleged harassment of co-workers…’
‘At the time [Walter] Benjamin was writing these lines…’
...Stalin was throwing millions of human beings into the GULAG system of forced labor camps. Intellectually honest men, like Aleksander Wat — men who had been the intellectuals of Communism, men otherwise very much … [Read more...]
‘[O]ur current attitudes toward sex (…) are fundamentally consumerist’
‘This is not the first film to use the ‘secret clues tattooed on women’s behinds’ gag…’
The Irish Genocide Sweepstakes: My NEW Taki’s column
Before 6 a.m., there were already 60 angry comments: The thing is, even the Irish acknowledge their own “shiftlessness,” doling out self-deprecating sampler mottos such as, “God invented whiskey … [Read more...]
Muslim punk girl on Tumblr
“A friend of mine says that one defines a punk as opposed to one or another form of oppression. I’m tired of people’s generalizations and stereotypes about Muslim … [Read more...]
Juanita Moore, 1914-2014
Star of Imitation of Life, Pinky, The Girl Can't Help It: When Richard Pryor was in the army in Germany, according to a 1999 New Yorker profile, he went to a screening of … [Read more...]
In the land of the fat, the one-belt-hole-over man is king!
When it came to their own physiques, the majority of men (75 per cent), said that a waist measurement of 36inch or more was the sign it time to go on a diet. [Read more...]
‘The Working-Class Heroes of Figure Skating’
See? It isn't just me: [Tonya Harding's] mother had been married six times to six different men, or maybe seven, depending on the journalist’s sources. Tonya owned her first rifle, a .22, when she was … [Read more...]
Kill it with fire: ‘Skidoo’ (1968) on TCM this weekend
I've written about Skidoo before. I was convinced it was a hoax until I saw it with my own now-permanently-damaged eyes... Older audiences found … [Read more...]
Gilbert Gottfried asks: Do women really want a funny man?
Playboy.com: I was talking to this girl once, and she was going on and on about how much she loves Jerry Seinfeld. “He’s the funniest guy on the planet,” she told me. “Every joke he does just makes me scream with … [Read more...]