- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
- Never-Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
- Lipstick
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
- Go-Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
- Fence
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- Nov 07, 2020