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I think if we’re all quite honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that the methods to approaching big-screen biopics are finite—especially biopics about musicians. In order for people’s lives to warrant the silver screen treatment in the first place, those lives have to possess extremes—a series of extenuating events that can be exploited for the highest Read More

Jazz critic Stanley Crouch pens another curmudgeonly missive against hip-hop, this time making the breathtakingly idiotic argument that Barack Obama’s election will somehow “greatly diminish the national appetite for and the defense of those who proudly commit intellectual suicide by submitting to anti-intellectual stances and the surface styles that repel across all ethnic lines.”

There are a lot of names being bandied about as replacements for HRC in the Senate, should she be confirmed as Secretary of State. ABC News is reporting that Caroline Kennedy has been asked by Gov. Paterson if she has any interest in stepping into the role. A Democrat who would know tells ABC News Read More

My mother calls me a malcontent. She, who knows me at least as well as I know myself, claims that I am incapable of residing In The Moment and impossible to please. “You’re always after the next thing,” she often indicts, “and as soon as you get that, it becomes inadequate.” So it’s no wonder Read More

WWD asks designers what Michelle Obama should wear to the inauguration ball. Brigitte at Make Fetch Happen rates the sketches and varying incarnations of Michelle and gives a pretty hilarious (and blistering) commentary.  Regarding a rather unfortunate Badgley Mischka creation, she writes: This Badgley Mishka dress seems like something that the 90s spit out. Their Read More

I could never be a real militant. Because there’s no way a real militant would’ve sat through Baz Luhrmann’s latest epic, Australia, which clocks in at a superfluous 3+ hours, and dug it as much as I did. It’s a film rife with knee-jerk infuriation potential. It’s got everything to rankle the revolutionary: racial slurs, Read More

Breaking news: it’s “official.”  The U.S. is in a recession. Oh, and it started almost a year ago: Monday’s declaration by the panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research confirms what many private economists, lawmakers and members of the general public already have assumed and puts an official date on it: A U.S. recession Read More
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