Wednesday 21st
“They can be so messy, noisy and temperamental,” said Susan Chamberlain, speaking not of Manhattan men but pet birds -”pets that are often discarded,” according to Ms. Chamberlain, president of the Long Island Parrot Society and owner of nine birds, who live with her in a glass house . “They’re very long-lived. Read More
Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa , from a screenplay by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is the funniest send-up of bad Christmas karma I have ever seen. It’s also one of the happiest surprises of this already wearisome ho-ho-ho season, burdened as it is with an excess of hype, hysteria and hypocrisy. Mr. Zwigoff and his Read More
Back when I was a spotty-faced youth, it was the grown-ups who got all the respect: the attention and the jewelry and the shags and the sparkling champers. Adults were-I know it’s hard to imagine-at the center stage of the cultural drama. Sure, there were pop tarts and gangly layabouts, but nobody listened to them Read More
