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...current spouse, 39-year-old ex--News Corp. executive Wendi Deng--nonetheless opened themselves up to biographer Wolff's relentless questioning. The result is an inside account of the billionaire newsman's hard-fought, obsessive battle to acquire the Wall Street Journal. But as in Murdoch's more lowbrow publications, the real attraction here is the scandal: Wolff delves into the family's succession melodrama ("a bloody mess," says Wolff) and calls Murdoch's decision to leave his wife for Deng "perhaps the most confounding and dramatic moment in the history of News Corp...
...days of soul music, political incorrectness, and a man who embodied both. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee and written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone—the duo behind “Intolerable Cruelty”—“Soul Men” is a lowbrow comedy about two 1970s backup singers who reunite to perform at a memorial concert for their former group leader. The film opens with a hilarious montage of the group’s earlier years when they were known as “Marcus Hooks and the Real Deal...
...without coming off biased. Even Letterman was scolded for continually berating McCain for skipping his show.Conservative humor like “An American Carol,” on the other hand, makes use of much less “elitist rational thought” and instead capitalizes on offensive, lowbrow humor while delivering a “patriotic” message. It’s also interesting to note that the company “American” enough to produce “An American Carol” is called Mpower. The company’s mission statement...
...origine controllata) quality-assurance label to be sold in boxes, in response to requests from DOC winemakers in the Trentino-Alto Adige region. Vintners note that boxes are cheaper and more eco-friendly than glass and can keep wine fresh longer. But while boxed wine may be losing its lowbrow stigma, hold on to that corkscrew: wines with the tonier DOCG (denominazione di origine controllata e garantita) designation are still bottle-only...
...story "Addiction," about a gay Singaporean student in London named Alistair. Parts of it are smartly observed, but structurally Poon draws too crude a contrast between London and Singapore to power her plot of a young man's journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while Alistair, rather...