Steven Ivory: They’re Taking Back the Country, One Fox Trot at a Time

Steven Ivory: They’re Taking Back the Country, One Fox Trot at a Time
*You can’t blame Bristol Palin. Even though she talked smack toward the end of the show’s season, at some point in the competition the twenty year-old daughter of politician/Reality TV star Sarah Palin must have figured–hoped?–she would have been voted off “Dancing With The Stars” way before the show’s finals. During the show’s early […]
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Marc Horowitz is losing control of his life to strangers, but they are strangely protective
Since starting his month-long Internet-puppetry project on Nov. 1, which involves posting polls online to let strangers direct the course of his day (www.theadviceofstrangers.com), the performer Marc Horowitz has discovered a few things. 1. It’s deeply, even existentially tiring to…
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DAN THOMASSSON: Commentary
Hollywood can’t seem to resist embellishing history if not just turning it into fiction. One day my youngest son engaged me in a conversation about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was filled with the usual speculation about more than one shooter and so forth.
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Yes Virginia, there really is a Macy’s
“For the past 50 years or so I’ve been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we’re all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.” That’s what Kris Kringle had to say in the 1947 classic “Miracle on 34th Street …
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