As I look out over the national Mall in Washington, I can see them building the new World War II Memorial. The monstrous excrescence on the clean lines and open space of the Mall is scheduled to be finished next spring and has at least the merit of inducing the National Capital Planning Commission to…
David Spade may not be the most unfunny of the alumni of “Saturday Night Live” to have gone to Hollywood, but he gives Rob Schneider a run for his money.
Why is the U.S. Army out to get Wilhelm Furtwängler? Who knows why the U.S. Army does anything in the movies?
In the most recent Commentary, Josh Muravchik writes of “The Neoconservative Cabal” which those opposed to Bush administration’s security and defense policy have suddenly discovered are directing things. Its evil geniuses are supposed to be, of all people, Leo Strauss and Leon Trotsky, and it is often hinted with more or less subtlety that its…
A Western’s themes and a Western’s morality work surprisingly well among Britons of the Midlands and the lower-mid social status
Here’s one for the hope chest, gals: a husband who won’t mind very much if you cheat on him
It was a real glass-half-empty/glass-half-full moment. The world suddenly looked like one of those trompe-l’oeil drawings that, while remaining unchanged, appears by turns to be an ornate vase and a pair of faces staring at each other. In the New York Times, Jessica Stern, a lecturer at the Kennedy School at Harvard and author of…
Two corrections to my diary of last Tuesday, in response to reader’s e-mails. First and more trivially, I now accept that the G.I. Joe-style doll called Elite Force Aviator and featuring George W. Bush in his flight suit as he appeared on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln last May is being produced not by Hasbro but…
Kevin Costner’s love affair with Kevin Costner continues — and spoils what might otherwise have been a decent picture
True, her movie is pretty bad, but Brittany Murphy is my new pin-up girl
How splendid that BBi/Blue Box toys is to bring out a new version of its G.I. Joe doll meant to look like George W. Bush in his flight suit after landing an airplane on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last May. Called an “Elite Force Aviator,” the action figure representing “George Dubya himself…
