The annual gush over hunks and chicks strolling a Red Carpet (why not the Yellow Brick Road?) is because they are our royalty. We’ve never gotten over losing that when we broke up with the Brits. Now we pick from a cast (pun intended) of hundreds at once, very much alive and mugging […]
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Our Hearts Belong to Oscar
March 8, 2014
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Tags: Bob Hope, Ellen, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Leo DeCaprio, Lupita Nyong'o, Matthew Mconaughey, Meryls Streep, Oscars, Royalty, Sandra Bullock, Scorsese
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Bored for 83 Years
March 1, 2011Many of us weren’t born when this nonsense started–meaning, the Academy Awards and the slavish adoration of people with otherwise messed-up lives who have a talent for appearing normal, even heroic, on a silver screen. This bears saying again: the obsession with celebrity is our way of re-creating a royalty that was briefly sacrificed by […]
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Tags: 83rd Oscars, Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Colin Firth, James Franco, Kirk Douglas, Mike Douglas, Sandra Bullock, United States, Vince Lombardi
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Ichabod's Kin 