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That's one explanation for last month's jeremiad by Peter Bart, editor of the trade paper Variety, against movie reviewers. He couldn't understand why so many critics lambasted hits like 300, Wild Hogs and Norbit. "The situation underscores yet again the disconnect between the cinematic appetites of critics vs. those of the popcorn crowd," Bart wrote. "If the established media want to stay relevant, should their critics make a passing attempt to tune in to pop culture?" He suggested we take "a sabbatical until September," when Hollywood starts releasing artsy films in the pre-Oscar blitz...
...Kerry O'Brien, he wielded the word "actually" like a stick. "Well, actually, that's not the approach I've got at all, Kerry. I've just got a healthy regard for what state governments actually do. I used to work for one. I actually understand the critical role which they perform." His private bullying of editors and media proprietors has already come back to haunt him. There's insecurity, too. Rudd is quick to inform people that he knows about life on the land, about bushfires and milking cows. "I grew up in the bush myself," Rudd is fond...
Michael B. Oren’s new book, “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present” has enough analytic power to make anyone who thinks they understand the Middle East reconsider their assumptions...
...could understand if there weren’t enough offices, but I don’t see any reason at all to deny groups space if they have an abundance,” said Mercado, whose organization’s request for space was declined...
...unlit places in the minds of the people who are capable of doing these things - and, by extension, in all our minds. What is it that makes individual members of a usually empathetic species turn rogue? How does one of our most primal faculties - the ability to understand that things that cause me pain or fear would do the same to you and that I therefore ought not do them - get so completely shut down? Is empathy optional, at least in some people, and if so, how does that emotional decoupling take place? More important, if we can figure...