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...response: "Your play portrays a megalomaniac psychopath who drags his newspapers downmarket, who has no concern for editorial standards, who has no sexual pleasure except in the public humiliation and violent dismissal of his staff. If Rupert Murdoch really wants to step forward and identify himself as the hero of the play, then my advice would...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position...
...with a terrier's raspy impatience; he was the Chris Matthews of 1940s MGM. A trash-talking, proto-rapping musical-comedy star of a later era, Rudy Ray Moore, 81, created the street-smut sasser Dolemite as part of his stand-up act, then used the character as the hero of a legendarily transgressive 1975 blaxploitation epic. Stick around for the kung-fu hookers...
...born in San Francisco, but Bruce Lee is the ultimate hometown hero to the people of Hong Kong. The martial arts movie star was one of the first Chinese celebrities to achieve an international following, putting Hong Kong's film industry on the map in the early 1970s with kung fu classics like Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon. His grace, brashness and fame gave Hong Kong residents a superstar who was one of their...
...struggle has intensified between Israel and Gaza, a sad clich about the Middle East once again seems true--that the more things change, the more they tragically stay the same. In our 1948 cover story on the Israeli victory and its hero, David Ben-Gurion, we wrote that it was "time to stop pondering the settled question of whether there would be a Jewish state, time to start asking what kind of nation Israel...