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...explain us to ourselves now seems frivolous, inappropriate or simply outdated. Entertainers in every field are in a crisis of relevance, caught up in a nationwide feeling of survivor's guilt, unsure whether their work has a place in the new reality. "I don't know if my writing right now is adequate to the time," says playwright Jon Robin Baitz. "I'm not going to write until I feel that's no longer an issue...
...least in the short term, the terror attacks have not yet changed pop culture so much as suspended it. "No humor column today," wrote syndicated funnyman Dave Barry. "I don't want to write it, and you don't want to read it." Sports went on hiatus, and after they returned, a preseason hockey game between longtime rivals New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers ended with the players watching President Bush's address to Congress, shaking hands and skating off the ice in midgame. Satirical websites theonion.com and modernhumorist.com interrupted publication. A five-hour Law & Order mini-series...
...prostitute and a puppet of the West. Her brother Aslam was furious when she published her first poem as a teenager, and he forbade her to use Larik, the family name. She then adopted her father's first name, but it took her ages to feel brave enough to write again. Three years ago, she received death threats that made her consider staying at home and never writing again. But she re-emerged as outspoken as ever, walking out of a poetry reading that began with a religious verse and arguing on a TV panel discussion that Islam was detrimental...
...column that I hope to write will be a silly bi-weekly romp through the pages of Glamour magazine, complete with tantrum-type rants and bizarro generalities about a magazine we all pretend not to read. I hope to add a splash of frivolity to the editorial page while putting in print the psuedo-stream of consciousness babble that echoes in the recesses of my mind. But, for obvious reasons, I found that I couldn’t jump into the intended frivolity with this, my first column. The crumpled, thumbed-through Glamour is sitting on my coffee table...
...defense of such unpopular clients lead one National Review correspondent to write, “We won’t know for sure whether Gary Condit is guilty until Alan Dershowitz defends...