May 2009
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Spirits Rising - WSJ.com →
The King of Vodka, a history of the company that became Smirnoff. Hopefully less of a deadly bore than Tom Gjelten’s Bacardi and the Long Fight For Cuba.
DownWithTyranny!: Time Warner Dumps AOL →
Howie Klein with a lengthy blast from his past on TW’s long-overdue spinoff of AOL. He needs to write a book, or at least a Vanity Fair inside-corporate America piece.
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Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily » AMC... →
Yeah, they won’t be satisfied until they get the hour down to 42 minutes just like broadcast TV. Le sigh.
A taste of America's past - Los Angeles Times →
A cache of WPA-era writings on the social and gastronomic traditions of America’s food unearthed at the Library of Congress.
Western "art" out at White House - WSJ →
Out with the Frederic Remington cowboy bronzes, in with works by modern and contemporary artists (though, any work by a living artist may be accepted only as a loan, so as not to pump up their market value). Next to go should be that “sunbeam” rug in the Oval; yes, we’re in a recession but why not spend a little to lay that tacky thing on the ash heap of history?
David Denby on The Real Rhett Butler →
Like many regular New Yorker readers, we’re not in love with Denby’s film criticism, but this is an interesting review of two new books on director Victor Fleming’s 1939 blockbusters for M-G-M—The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. The book reviews are often the most rewarding section of TNY because the book in question is usually just the jumping-off point, an excuse for...
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Like...Dreamsville →
Shrine to all things Beat. It’s the ginchiest. (Still from 1959 Canadian beatsploitation flick The Bloody Brood via like…dreamsville.)
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A Brief History Of: The Tonight Show - TIME →
With extra added brevity since they too FAILED to include Ernie Kovacs in the list of hosts. Also, only one photo! And they wonder why mag circulation is plummeting. This could have been a nice photo feature…
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“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if...”
– Michelle Obama, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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I drink, therefore I can - Prospect Magazine →
High-achieving drinkers may carry a “Churchill gene?”
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Gentility Takes a Holiday - WSJ.com →
When Brit men were men, angry and young. New book covers “Bloke” lit from Kingsley Amis to John Osborne.
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Classic NYT on The Pleasure Seekers →
From December 1964, A.H. Weiler’s take on The Pleasure Seekers and Sex and the Single Girl (title and not much else taken from the Cosmo Girl’s book of the same name).
WGBH reclears the way for more shows online - The... →
Keep a copy of this on hand for reference the next time you’re wondering why your favorite film, series, music etc. is unavailable online, or hasn’t been issued on DVD yet, or simply hasn’t been seen/heard in years. It’s not “in rights” because somewhere, some person, institution or guild is holding up the show (as in with a weapon pointed at the bank teller).
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