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Stewart has an inherently likable role, our bemused Virgil in the Inferno of media clichés. Colbert plays the devil himself: the millionaire pundit pretending to stand up for the little guy. He can even demagogue astronomy. When astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson told him Pluto should not be considered a planet, Colbert debated him thusly: "Isn't that just East Coast liberal intellectual ... did you go to an Ivy League school?" "Yes, I did." "... Ivy League-- educated people telling us what is or isn't a planet...
...appropriately secretive “Redmoon nights” of experimental music and bonfires in the lonely Scottish wilderness, and you get a glimmer of the band’s near-cultish appeal. Yet “Campfire” is remarkably clean-cut; devoid of devil worshipping and all the stronger because of it. BoC openly admits that some of their past records used forms of subliminal manipulation, (fitting for a band that takes their name from the National Film Board of Canada) but they assert that their latest album is focused solely on the music. This seemingly infinite...
...Lewis' popularity extends beyond the Borders children's section. This year HarperSanFrancisco, which publishes some of the best known of his dozens of adult titles, including Mere Christianity (a collection of those radio talks) and The Screwtape Letters (a set of funny-creepy faux missives from a senior devil to his nephew), sold 843,000 copies, twice as many as in 2001. Multiple books about Lewis debut annually; this year's crop features Jacobs' biography and Jack's Life (Broadman & Holman) by Lewis' stepson Douglas Gresham. In 1947, a TIME cover story hailed Lewis as "one of the most influential...
...Going to Die. The Boston-based hard rock/metal trio comes to The Middle East highly praised for its second release “The Wreck of the Minot.” Also playing that night are Cocked n’ Loaded, The Humanoids, and That Handsome Devil. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $9. (CEJ)Alan Hollingshurst. The winner of the 2004 Booker Prize reads from “The Line of Beauty,” his novel about Thatcher-era London. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street. 6 p.m. Free tickets are required and can be picked...
...Guilty-as-Charged: the person has sold his/her soul to the devil, and knows...