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by | Feb 12, 2023

I intended to write only one movie-themed Valentine’s Day piece this week — on how the death of the heteronormative love story by a thousand feminist cuts — the banishment of male role models, femininity erasure, “Me Too” abuse, gender…

by | Nov 30, 2021

The other day, as part of my constant effort to find non-political content to vary my daily cultural diet, I started listening to a new series of YouTube podcasts about the life of Lucille Ball. Produced by Turner Classic Movies,…

by | Apr 1, 2021

The LGBTQ media organization GLAAD has pulled from the internet its blacklist of over 200 politicians, journalists, and commentators who, it claims, use their “influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.” The organization calls the blacklist the…

by | Mar 19, 2021

I grew up after Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s era, but I never stopped hearing from liberals about 1950s Hollywood blacklists. Yet a monumental Oscar-winning director like Elia Kazan, who directed extraordinary movies that grippingly advanced freedom and human understanding, had antagonized…

by | Jan 22, 2021

“This class struggle plays hell with your poetry,” John Reed, the first of three Americans buried in the Kremlin Wall, famously remarked. It sure did for his friend Max Eastman, who wrote Artists in Uniform as a way of ridiculing…

by | Sep 10, 2019

We came together after 9/11 as Americans. We formed a bond of unity the likes of which I could not remember save for when I was a child during World War II. Then, housewives rolled bandages at night for the…

by | Sep 5, 2019

Pygmies walk the streets of Hollywood where giants once trod. Take Eric McCormack, the bland Canadian actor who in 1998 lucked into the popular sitcom Will & Grace. Rather than appreciate the hard work of the hundreds who enabled his lucrative…

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