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These bizarre juxtapositions, commingling the solemn and the sordid, helped forge the legend of Big Brother as newspaper columnist. In the words of a 1933 ad slogan, WINCHELL HE SEES ALL HE KNOWS ALL. With its rightful emphasis on the power-mad side of Winchell's persona, Gabler's biography validates Burt Lancaster's chilling portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense...
Amid the rich detail, Gabler at times poetically captures the desperate hunger that fueled Winchell. There is a telling scene of the columnist wading in the surf at Miami Beach in the late 1940s with his lawyer Ernest Cuneo. "Well, King Canute," asks Cuneo, "what more do you really want?" With tremendous vehemence, Winchell replies, "I want all the news in the world." Then the world's most powerful columnist adds, "And all its money too." With these values Winchell would truly be at home in the 1990s...
...people I find far more upsetting are those who profess Catholicism and still disagree with the Church on the issues. Many Americans, like former Times columnist Anna Quindlen, call themselves "Catholic" and then wear their support for abortion like a badge of honor...
Boston Globe columnist David Nyhan says, however, that neither Roosevelt's "Mount Rushmore-type" ad nor Bachrach and Barrett's negative television spots will make the difference in this year's gubernatorial race
...science to write in this week, which means that I will be forced to actually do some creative thinking and come up with a topic of my own. Since I haven't an ounce of creativity (that is why, after all, I am a columnist), I think that I will borrow a page from all the movie magazines and newspapers that I have read recently and hold a summer movie roundup. What's worth your paying those outrageous prices at that video store in the Garage to rent? What's the perfect film for that intimate night with your significant...