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Continue reading →: Swagga like fox
I never understood why so many women thought George Clooney was this awesome fuckpuppy. He coiffed and arranged himself so that you missed his inclination towards pudginess and the blandness of his face. As Mr. Fox in the Wes Anderson film, though, Clooney gets the makeover of his life.…
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Continue reading →: Punch-drunk fun
I liked Leslie Mann the instant I heard her gingery voice snap at Paul Rudd in Knocked Up. Her chin and eyes are proof positive that some blessed people come equipped with bullshit detectors. Those eyes and that chin are not made to giggle adoringly in medium shots or close-up,…
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Continue reading →: Happy Thanksgiving
I can’t think of a Thanksgiving songs, so here’s Al Green’s “Jesus is Waiting,” which features my favorite “thank yous” in recorded music.
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Continue reading →: “The landscape for the consumer in America has fundamentally changed”
For a detailed, depressing examination of how credit card companies get away with what Martin Luther would have called usury, watch this Frontline episode, which aired last night. Listening to Timothy Geithner and Christopher Dodd – the latter of whom talks and looks so much like a stereotypical senator that…
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Continue reading →: Stop the presses: old geezer shouts at cloud
The Tom Petty I like recorded his best music between 1988 and 1992 in the so-called Wilburys Period, during which he released signature song “Free Fallin’” ( incredibly, his second American top ten if you discount the Stevie Nicks collaboration “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”) and recorded an album…
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Continue reading →: Nota bene
The anecdotal love song — aphoristic and mushy in equal measures — as recorded by the likes of Luna needs an overhaul. Someone show me the new Romantica and Penthouse.
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Continue reading →: Singles!
As we approach the end of the year, we review fewer singles. The last batch, I presume: Lady Gaga – Dancer in the Dark (8) DJ Khaled ft. Usher, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Drake – Fed Up (4) Roisin Murphy – Orally Fixated (8)
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Continue reading →: “It’s not a lifestyle choice, Bella”
Roger Ebert on The Twilight Saga: New Moon: In his absence she’s befriended by Jake (Taylor Lautner), that nice American Indian boy. “You’ve gotten all buff!” she tells him. Yeah, real buff, and soon he’s never wearing a shirt and standing outside in the winter rain as if he were–why,…
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Continue reading →: Natalie Imbruglia: Still Torn
I still stand by what I wrote a couple of months ago about Natalie Imbruglia’s “Want,” except now I love it love it love it. It really does remind me a lot of a track like “The Beginning,” a dance club hit in late ’91 for Seal: disco-inflected house, creamy,…
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Continue reading →: Sarah Palin: Anything for cheap applause
In the most recent Newsweek, Christopher Hitchens returns to what he does: penning lucid, vicious denunciations. If you think Sarah Palin inspires too many easy titters, please remember that “her” memoir Going Rogue currently sits atop Amazon’s bestseller list and for whose sake she’s submitting to abject promotional interviews. I…
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Continue reading →: Singles! Er, single!
With the Singles Jukebox down for a week, we only posted one single: Lady GaGa’s “Bad Romance,” which swiftly became the most played song in the newsroom last week.
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Continue reading →: The Dumb Approach
Poking fun at the monsters in The Corner is as easy these days as insulting a three-headed baby, but once in a while one of those guys post something whose cynicism takes the breath away. Editor in Chief Rich Lowry tonight: At this point, Obama needs to settle for a…
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