Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always polite Judith Martin is a syndicated columnist and the author of Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown...
...race for big box office heats up, bad guys could emerge as movie MVPs--flamboyant, instantly recognizable characters who can make an impact in a short trailer or be miniaturized and slipped into a Happy Meal. "Heroes have to be drawn according to more conventional terms," says Hollywood Reporter columnist Martin Grove. "When you have these huge-event pictures with megabudgets, villains become the jewels in the crown." Sure, heroes like Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact or Samuel L. Jackson in the drama 187 catch our eye. But when the villains start scheming, that's when summer...
...have thoroughly enjoyed my tenure as a Crimson editorial columnist. To quote a phrase popularized by Ishmael Reed, "writin' is fightin'," and I've relished the chance to joust with my political and ideological opponents. The negative responses that I sometimes provoked only helped to motivate me. I've received replies ranging from polite criticism to outraged diatribes--even one death threat--but I won't apologize to anyone who I offended because they probably deserved...
Celebrities are getting awfully good at ditching the press to get married. Gossip columnists went on nuptial red alert last week when The X-Files' DAVID DUCHOVNY (instantly recognizable despite the cheesy fake mustache) was spotted at New York City's marriage-license bureau. But the trail had gone cold by the next night, when the star wed actress TEA LEONI of NBC's The Naked Truth at lower Manhattan's Grace Church. Just a handful of family members attended the paparazzo-free ceremony. In January the two stars had begun a commuter romance between his show...
DIED. MURRAY KEMPTON, 79, maverick, moralistic columnist whose baroque language could never hide an unwavering sympathy for the oppressed and an abiding sense of fair play; in New York City. A liberal labor reporter for the New York Post in 1942, Kempton continued his sometimes quixotic fight for underdogs on the left and right--he even defended the fallen Richard Nixon when the former President was rejected by a New York co-op board. His many awards included a 1985 Pulitzer for his Newsday commentary...