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ESSAY: James Poniewozik on car-and bike-makeover shows...
SIMON COWELL by James Poniewozik...
...selfhelp books--the notion that everyone who tries deserves to win. At bottom, people are booing Cowell for gleefully confronting us with a fundamental truth: some are more deserving than others. That may not make him America's idol. But somehow we don't think he minds. --By James Poniewozik...
...even in movies in which he's the hero, is particularly well cast.) Somehow they make us cheer for them to secure the re-election of the out-of-touch head of a corrupt regime through fearmongering and manipulation--to cheapen democracy in order to save it. --By James Poniewozik...
...Instead it earnestly believes its most trite observations are brilliant revelations; watching it is like spending an hour a week with an overconfident college sophomore. The L Word has lust and libido down, all right, but otherwise it has an L of a long way to go. --By James Poniewozik...