By Staff 6/09/06 5:42pm

Chris Matthews Remints a Good Cliche

Chris Matthews’ line on Zarqawi’s death yesterday—”he’s dead as Julius Caesar”—was ten times as poetic as President Bush’s: “Zarqawi has met his end.” And Bush’s writers had more advance warning than Matthews’s.

I gather the line comes from Malone on The Untouchables.

Or did they steal it from Joseph Conrad’s Read More

By Tom Shone 12/17/01 12:00am

For Hardened Hitchcock Fans: The Master, Sliced and Diced

So you think you know your Hitchcock? O.K., let’s play a game. I

want you to link up the following Hitchcock movies, but without using date,

genre or actor. All you’re allowed is theme or, at a push, subtext-or

sub-theme, or inter-text, or whatever lingo is the flavor of the month on the

nation’s campuses. Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 7/16/01 12:00am

Teddy Kennedy’s Long March: Is It Time To Forgive Him?

” There are many things in this incident … which have remained obscure. “

-the French lieutenant in Lord Jim

I’ve been paying attention to Teddy Kennedy again. I’m not sure why, but every now and then I can’t help returning to this remarkable American character. Our Lord Jim.

The immediate cause was Read More