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A Star Fading to Black? I loved Josh Tyrangiel's article on Amy Winehouse, "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. I think he summarized the dichotomy of her character eloquently, without condoning or condemning her behavior. Despite our distance from her, we can't help pitying and chastising her in turn. At...
They have a name in the TV business for that kind of series: a CBS show. The network has had a successful formula for years with series like CSI and Criminal Minds, bloody odes to killers and the science nerds who catch them. But in Dexter, the science nerd is...
A Star Fading to Black? I loved Josh Tyrangiel's article on Amy Winehouse, "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. He summarized the dichotomy of her character eloquently, without condoning or condemning her behavior. We can't help pitying and chastising her in turn. At the same time, her talent and the...
If one actor could encapsulate the limitations of the Oscar mind-set, it would be Stanwyck, who in the early '30s all but created the movies' image of the tough broad, surviving and thriving in the Depression through a wily, earthy cynicism. Stanwyck was sensational in grimy melodramas, from Illicit...
More important: Have they no principles? In a properly functioning two-party democracy, each party is supposed to nominate a person whom members of the other party will detest. Ordinarily this is not a problem. In recent years, the basic principles of each party have been anathema to the other...