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Ron Rosenbaum

Drama King

Johnny Drama: What a great character! I’m surprised that more attention hasn’t been paid to Kevin Dillon’s brilliant embodiment of comic/pathetic irritability on HBO’s Entourage. It’s not only the best thing on that otherwise uneven show, but Johnny Drama, pissed-off wannabe star, may be the most resonant new icon of the American character on TV, Read More

The Final Seinfeld: I Told You So!

I’m sorry, I just can’t resist. Vindication this sweet, this complete, is just so rare and beautiful, I’m going to have to savor it at length. I’m going to postpone the second part of my exploration of David Berlinski’s heretical vision of the origins of man and the universe I promised in last week’s column Read More

Starchild Abraham: His Trip to Tijuana For Chemo-Refusal

Have you been following the “Starchild” chemo-refusal court battle? It’s one of the most vexing ethical, political and philosophical controversies you can imagine. One that involves ambiguities and gray areas galore.

And one that brings back to me a memorably strange moment in Tijuana, in one of the questionable “cancer cure” clinics clustered below the Read More

Uses of Disenchantment: TV Anchor-Mom Fights Autism and Films It

I want to talk about something barbaric and something beautiful and heroic. Also about a buried Freudian scandal involving Bruno Bettelheim and refrigerators. Let me explain.

It was prompted by the ordeal my longtime friends Lauren Thierry and Jim Watkins and their son Liam have been going through.

Lauren and Jim are two exemplary New Read More