Brendan O’Neill explains what’s going on with the British royals. No, it’s not about racism.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
That Dumb Quillette Article About Mars
Isaac Asimov
A prolific writer, and prodigious groper of women.
Ricky Gervais
I don’t watch awards ceremonies, but apparently he handed woke Hollywood its ass last night.
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More from Steve Kruiser, with video.
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Boo, hoo. Lorraine Ali is all butthurt.
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More from Kyle Smith. And Emily Jashinski.
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Hollywood proved Gervais’s point.
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Related, I think: What happened to Howard Stern? If you want to skip the long history, jump to the end, which relates his recent interview with Hillary.
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To hell with these gilded charlatans.
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The “liberal” reviews are in for Gervais’s performance, and their tears are delicious.
Cats
I’ve never seen the musical, and I’m not inclined to, but nowhere near as much as I’m not inclined to see the movie, which is getting terrible reviews.
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“I watched Cats, and I have some questions.”
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Follow the whole thread.
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Here’s the unroll for that thread. RTWT.
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Universal notifies theaters that the movie will be “updated” for special effects. For a film already in release.
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This is one of the longest-running Broadway musicals. Can anyone tell me if there is a single memorable song in it other than “Memor<del>y</del>ies”? It seems to me that it’s like Les Miserable; apparently tunes aren’t important in musicals any more.
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OK, here’s another Twitter review.
And here’s a review of the software update.
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Galaxy Quest
An interesting history of why the best Star Trek movie ever made wasn’t a bigger hit.
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Now that I’ve read the whole thing, I’d like to see a director’s cut with the missing Rickman scenes, and get Weaver to dub in the right word.
A Matter Of Truth
Thoughts on J. K. Rowling and the new totalitarianism of wokeness from Dr. Dalrymple.
A Very Libertarian Christmas
A Charlie Brown Gospel
A story of how Charles Schulz got it past CBS.
I remember watching it as a kid, and being annoyed that the kids voices weren’t what I’d imagined them reading the comic strip.