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...Governor, Sly is about to become a reality-show host, Jean-Claude Van Damme toils in direct-to-video. Jackie Chan is almost a creaky 50, and Jet Li doesn't work much anymore. The genre needs another hero, and Jaa (Thai name: Phanom Yeerum) is the fellow to fill the void. He's young--28--and good-looking, with a quiet élan to match his athletic skill. He's also a throwback to kung-fu film's early days, when stars and stunt men alike took a licking and kept on kicking. Ong-Bak has no crouching...
...What prolonged the media attention, other than the reach of the star's eminence and the need to fill air time in a slow news week, was the enigma of Carson. Millions saw and liked him 150 times a year, yet he steadfastly hoarded the essence of his personality. "If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself," wrote Kenneth Tynan, who interviewed Carson for a 1977 New Yorker profile reprinted in the book Show People, "burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade...
...very first Tonight monologue, on Oct. 1, 1962, he told the audience, "I'm curious," and he allowed his social and cultural curiosity fairly free rein. The young host would acknowledge that he attended the opera (his favorite: Giordano's Andrea Chenier). He booked serious authors to fill the last 15 mins. of his then-90-min. broadcast. His musical guests eschewed rock 'n roll; they included crooners, opera tenors and sopranos, lots of jazz men, both in the spotlight (Joe Williams must have sung Every Day I Have the Blues 40 times in those days) and on the bandstand...
This weekend during intersession college students from Columbia to the University of Chicago will fill Sever Hall for the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association’s (HRSFA) fifth annual conference, Vericon...
...Bush could be named Person of the Year is beyond me. The man is an intellectual midget. His presidency has been marked by the full-scale manipulation of reality at all levels. The person responsible for that is political operative Rove, not Bush, who is a bumbling spokesman. To fill the gap left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have...