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Articles by Burt Prelutsky

The Slobbering Sycophants of the MSM

It wasn’t that long ago that my friend Bernard Goldberg told me he was never going to write another book. It was just a lot of hard work, he complained, and while he was working on one, virtually all joy

A Plea To Unendow The Arts

For years, I have argued against the very existence of the National Endowment of the Arts. If an artist can’t be self-sustaining in a capitalist country as large and as rich as America, he should get into another line of

Old School Vs. No Class

When I read that Jack Elam had died at the age of 82, I couldn’t believe it. Okay, I believed it. But I didn’t like it. The world can ill-afford to lose the likes of Jack. I got to know

Knowing When To Fold 'Em

Who would have ever guessed that my favorite game would be such a popular addition to reality TV? Suddenly, poker is bigger than Paris Hilton and Donald Trump put together. (Come to think of it, I suspect it’s only a

Regarding Blacklists

Once upon a time there was a blacklist in Hollywood. Liberals still refer to it as McCarthyism, but they can’t even get that right. Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator and had nothing to do with Hollywood. It was the

Surviving 19 Hours, 58 Minutes, Of Year-End Movies

This is the time of year when the studios send DVDs of their movies to the members of the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild and, in my case, the Writers Guild. It’s not altruism. They’re hoping to garner our

Still The Land Of Fruits And Nuts

Because California, and Hollywood in particular, have been the punch line for so many jokes over the years, I suspect that people who don’t live out here assume we can’t possibly be that wacky. They don’t know the half of