Tag: New York Times

John Derbyshire, columnist, essayist, critic, raconteur, has an opinion. On everything, it seems. Thankfully, he is not shy about sharing them, and was kind enough to speak with me by phone one afternoon. In addition to wearing the above listed

After seeing video trailers for Mike Judge’s new show The Goode Family online last week, I was looking forward to seeing the show. Who couldn’t appreciate jabs being taken at a vegan family who wanted to adopt an African baby

A new television animation show will be debuting tonight on ABC, and it has the potential to be really “Goode.” “The Goode Family” is the story of a politically correct family of environmental zealots and there are two reasons I

In the closing sentence of her New York Times review, Ginia Bellafante damns Mike Judge’s new series, “The Goode Family” — which appears to mercilessly mock everything anyone employed at the Times holds dear — with the harshest of criticisms:

The first rule of getting out of a hole you have dug yourself into is to stop digging. But at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, they handed out shovels at the door. Let’s review the state of American journalism.

I make silly, fun movies. Stuff you pick up at your local Blockbuster or watch on the Sci-fi Channel. I’ve always said that most of my films, because of budget limitations, end up being “two star” movies, but with a

“Wax on, wax off.” “He slimed me.” “Fortune and Glory, kid.” “I’ll be back.” “Don’t get him wet. Keep him out of bright light. And never feed him after midnight.” It’s hard to believe that a quarter century has passed

It is unnecessary for me to tell any of you reading this that the left has a stranglehold over both Hollywood and the mainstream media. It is axiomatic in today’s news world dominated by the likes of Keith Olbermann and

So after weeks of delving deeper and deeper into Miss California’s thoughts on social issues, we now turn to last night’s press conference, where one reporter preferred to serve up a question suited more for a pageant than a President.

Watching “24” this week, I realized that our number one threat is multi-national corporations with battalions of hired killers on the payroll. Similarly, “Michael Clayton,” “The International,” the new “State of Play” and many others have taught me that big

Recently dethroned Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart, whose relevance as a Hollywood insider has been plummeting faster than Variety‘s circulation numbers, last week published an article in his new capacity as “bitter old has-been who wont leave gracefully” “vice president and

James Cameron, Oscar-winning director of “Titanic” and self-proclaimed “King of the World” has found a new planet to conquer. His next picture is “Avatar,” due in December. It’s the story of an ex-marine who is sent to settle and exploit

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: IMF, Recession, Insect Torture, Barack Obama Scholarship, New York TImes, Hezbollah, Audrina Patridge, HBO, Sarah Palin, Lisa Rinna, and Playboy magazine. — [youtube 0BHIokH4-m8 nolink]

It wasn’t much of a surprise when the New York Times reported that one of the most highly anticipated movies of the year-X-Men Origins: Wolverine-had been leaked a month before the film’s release date and was available for download on

What do a Hall of Fame football coach and broadcaster, an overnight British vocal sensation, and several hundred thousand American taxpayers have in common? Quite a bit, as it turned out last week. Not because any of them had anything

Recently, I was called cranky in an article posted at the Huffington Post. The good news is that it’s one of the few times that anything approaching the truth has been posted there. The part I resented, though, was having