At a cozy bend on a leafy lane named Underhill Road in the township of Greenburgh, Westchester County, lies a short cul-de-sac containing three very new, destroyer-escort-sized houses of the variety widely known as McMansion. The cul-de-sac is called Vandalay Court.
The name Vandalay-more frequently spelled “Vandelay”-is one that will raise an automatic red flag Read More
“I’m not really surprised,” Bill O’Reilly said. It was early evening on April 21, and Mr. O’Reilly was getting ready for his television program, The O’Reilly Factor . He was also-in a calm, Bill O’Reilly voice-explaining his complete, utter lack of astonishment at being the most-watched person in cable news.
“The plan was always to Read More
“I’m not really surprised,” Bill O’Reilly said. It was early evening on April 21, and Mr. O’Reilly was getting ready for his television program, The O’Reilly Factor . He was also-in a calm, Bill O’Reilly voice-explaining his complete, utter lack of astonishment at being the most-watched person in cable news.
“The plan was always to Read More
They now have Americans troops patrolling their neighborhoods, American-supplied radio on their airwaves, and pretty soon they’ll have Tom Brokaw, too, stentorially rhapsodizing on their rabbit-eared televisions.
But is Iraq ready for Seinfeld ?
The American media campaign in Iraq is well underway, of course, even without Jerry. It began with psychological-warfare radio Read More
Wednesday, April 9
Aaron Brown is having a strange war.
Even in peacetime, the quirky CNN anchor possesses one of television’s true love-him-or-loathe-him personalities. Mr. Brown’s reflective, stream-of-consciousness style can make you think he’s articulating exactly what you’re feeling-or make you incredulously fling a cushioned object at the yapmaster on the screen.
But Read More
When Saturday Night Live ‘s mimicker in chief Darrell Hammond began working on an impression of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first thing he did was grab John Ford’s 1940 movie version of The Grapes of Wrath , starring Henry Fonda as John Steinbeck’s agitated Depression-era itinerant, Tom Joad.
“Rumsfeld reminded me a little Read More
When Saturday Night Live ‘s mimicker in chief Darrell Hammond began working on an impression of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first thing he did was grab John Ford’s 1940 movie version of The Grapes of Wrath , starring Henry Fonda as John Steinbeck’s agitated Depression-era itinerant, Tom Joad.
“Rumsfeld reminded me a little Read More
It’s an avalanche from the front.
Every day, television packages and ships home hundreds of stories from hundreds of war correspondents in Iraq. There are reports of American heroes. There are reports of American casualties. There are angry Iraqis. There are happy Iraqis. The other day on CNN, there was a Kurdish child named…Dick Read More
On the morning of Jan. 26, an apple-cheeked unknown from Astoria, Queens, named Andy Milonakis crawled out of bed and made the most important decision of his life.
He decided not to attend a friend’s Super Bowl party.
Instead, Mr. Milonakis picked up a guitar he can’t really play, turned on a video camera Read More
Wednesday, Mar. 12
Every once in a while, Pat Sajak gets a phone call, or is taken out for a nice meal, and is wooed to run for public office.
Mr. Sajak admits he lets these proposals linger and tantalize him for a moment, like a sweet whiff of cigar smoke. Pat Sajak for Read More
