Washington Post style writer Tom Shales penned a review of Jon Meacham and Alison Stewart’s new PBS show Need to Know.
Shales feels strongly about the show, to say the least. Some of the words he used to describe the new show:
1. A monstrosity
2. A specious wheeze
3. Dreadful
4. Vacuous Read More
Lincoln Center’s rediscovery of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity to see the 1935 play that transformed American theater. But whether the drama about a Jewish family struggling in the Bronx to survive the Depression lives up to its myth as a lost masterpiece is open to question.
I’ve no doubt that Read More
The introduction of Playboy Magazine in Indonesia demonstrates an important point about the Islamic world. You’ll see that the article notes that the magazine is fifty years behind the American edition in terms of what it shows—not even nipples.
The key word here is fifty. The Islamic world is clearly behind us in Read More
Wednesday, Jan. 24
The scene : Outside St. Vincent Ferrer High School on Lexington Avenue and 65th Street. The date : Jan. 22, 2001. The topic : How television is treating teenage girls, the most coveted demographic of them all.
To start things off: What’s up with Dawson’s Creek ?
“I think it’s Read More
I recently received an invitation to a television and video festival in Biarritz, Switzerland, and was casting about for an interesting hour of television–”something you feel passionate about”–to present at a panel with critics from four other countries. I’d just worked up an appetite for the trip–balmy weather in January, an excursion to Bilbao, Spain–and Read More
