More Favorite Comedies: The Hangover; Farrelly Brothers; Ben Stiller
Following on from my previous post plotting my favorites of the decade, here are the remaining comedies:
The Hangover (2009) dir. Todd Phillips – A Las Vegas bachelor party gone out of control. This could have been a generic Hollywood comedy. But somehow it transcends the genre. It’s so well written and acted. The first of [...]
Albany reaches the end of days
We can’t blame the governor for what has happened to him. He became governor quite suddenly and was unprepared for the role. In addition, he was faced with an economic crisis of monumental proportions that he was completely unprepared for. As to this recent set of egregious moral and ethical errors, well, he just fell [...]
A Correction to a Real Error, or Simply a Regret?
There’s this wonderful correction in the Times Arts Beat blog:
An earlier version of this post misquoted Mr. Remnick on his comparison between the book and a New Yorker article he had previously written. He said the book would not be a “pumped up” version of the article; he did not say that it would not [...]
New from the Obama Justice Department: Any action is OK if the country is scared
Just a few days ago the lawyers who gave an OK to torture memo to the Bush Administration were cleared of any legal misconduct by high ups in the Justice Department. Earlier, the ethics branch of the Justice Department found that they had indeed violated their code of ethics and had engaged in legal misconduct. The [...]
“Only a man who carries a gun ever needs one”
Many years ago, during the 1968 Presidential campaign, there was a cartoon showing a crown roaring along a street and at the bottom of the single panel cartoon was a tiny figure (Bobby Kennedy) saying, “Oh M-God, I have to catch up with that crowd, I’m their leader.” The point is that it is often [...]
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