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...language will be ever so polite, but the message now to Beijing could well be: The only thing that may stand between an eventual Israeli air strike and the resulting chaos in the Persian Gulf is you. If you alone veto sanctions against Iran, God help...
That empathy with the Devil--taking a despicable character and slowly bringing us around to his side--is the sort of thing Hill does best. It's also what's missing from so much of the girl-meets-vampire gruel that dominates the genre these days. "The writer's first job in horror fiction is to convince the reader that there is a real person there to care about," says Hill. "If you don't have that, you don't have anything...
...spend so many years in the wilderness, aspiring to be "literary"? "It felt like the safe thing," he admits. "But eventually I realized that the New Jersey of Philip Roth is as much a pure product of make-believe as Alice's Wonderland. If all fiction is make-believe, then writers should not deny themselves great metaphors like ghosts and angels and devils." For Joe Hill, that's the stuff home is made...
...first thing you notice on MTV's Jersey Shore is the nicknames. Well, that and the hair, and the thongs, and the leathery tans, and the tattoos, and the hair gel, and the hot-tub sex, and the bar brawls, and the lustily embraced Italian-American stereotypes. But then: those nicknames. There's Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi. Mike (The Situation) Sorrentino. And most spectacularly, Jenni (Jwoww) Farley. For future copy editors of academic histories of mass media, that's two syllables, hyphen optional, and three...
...viewers but to the participants and those around them. The Heenes were lucky the Balloon Boy hoax was just embarrassing and not deadly. But the sleaziest, and saddest, aspect of their whole story was the implication that their kids were being raised to think it was all a normal thing that people do to help the family business. As Falcon Heene blurted to his dad on Larry King Live, "You guys said that we did this for the show...