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A quick reminder that two of our finest writers, Jonathan Gatehouse and Ken MacQueen, are blogging from Beijing during the current...

After two and a half weeks of being holed up in a cabin on a Laurentian lake, it’s time to break blog silence. It has rained every...

Charles Van Doren recently wrote a piece for the New Yorker about his infamous rigged appearance on the game show Twenty-One...

Though he claims the baby is not his. That loud noise you hear are Democrats sighing in relief that he was not the nominee.

No sooner do I write a post about Disney’s increasingly heavy emphasis on wish-fulfilment fantasies in their kids’ shows, than...

Actually, for the moment, we don’t have one. But the Georgia Messenger is liveblogging the unpleasantness in South Ossetia, and it...

Nikki Finke writes a fine obituary for Bernie Brillstein, the Hollywood super-agent who has died at the age of 77. As you can see...

I don’t usually post movie clips here, but following up the discussion of the Mr. T "disgrace to the man race" Snickers ad, I...

This Wired blogger argues (with backup from the human quote machine, Robert J. Thompson) that the problem with the broadcast...

I guess you heard about how a Snickers ad starring Mr. T was pulled due to complaints about "stereotyping and bullying." I’m not...