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Walters knows toning down the sass would gut the show. And its freedom to offend has a substantive benefit. The flip side of the cheeky vagina talk is that the hosts haven't let delicacy keep them from doing reproductive-health segments--like "Grill Your Gyno"--with graphic illustrations. It's The View's own vagina monologue: Why should someone who has one not be allowed to say the word...
...case, I think Jennifer Lopez is slowly digging her own grave. Nowadays, hype can only get you so far-and then you turn into Carmen Electra. And Jennifer is happily promoting her own image as all ass and sass, no talent to back it up. In this month's Talk magazine, her diva demeanor is on parade. She tells us that her two best friends since childhood keep her grounded-but then we find out that these girls are also her "personal assistants." Meaning that she forks over a wad of cash and they "draw her baths at the Ritz...
...walls of the Loeb Mainstage but not within the walls of their Mather single. Those expecting the seven women who play the flygirls to be just as saucy as the dishes they play onstage will find nothing of the sort. The characters may be a nice piece of sass, but the women who play them (Sabrina K. Blum '03, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks '03, Jody E. Flader '02, Juliene James '00, Sofia A. Lidskog '01, Yayoi J. Shionoiri '00, and Jennie D. Tarr '01) are just plain nice. What these seven girls share most with the flygirls is their unbridled...
...problem so much as the tone. The ingratiating host trio makes Rosie O'Donnell sound like a shock jock (co-host Florence Henderson seems grateful to be on TV at all: "Good morning! This is so much fun!"). After The View proved that homebound audiences like a little sass with their coffee and celebs, Later needs a shot of attitude in its cup. Maybe Joy Behar has a friend...
Most critics run on gas and sass. Jarrell, the poet, novelist, children's book author--what didn't he do, and do beautifully?--was a tireless lover of language. He fell in love (and in hate) with the poem or book under review, bringing it alive even as he anatomized it. These essays, selected by Brad Leithauser, open the reader to the Morgan Library of Jarrell's mind, ablaze with a sensible passion and aphoristic wit. "The people who live in a Golden Age," he wrote, "usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." When Jarrell died in 1965, criticism...