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Thursday, June 9, 2022
The Decline and Fall of the Arrowverse?
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The Arrowverse was, once upon a time, a unique phenomenon in TV land, an extraordinary sprawl of interconnected television series' putti...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Has Prestige TV Worn Out its Welcome?
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I have to admit that from the start I have been at best reserved toward prestige TV--here and there giving something a chance ( Mad Men , Ga...
Amber Heard and Her Ghost Writer
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The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial is the sort of news story that I generally pay as little attention to as possible --one reason why I was s...
The End of "New" New Hollywood?
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During Netflix's period of heady expansion as a generator of original films and shows much was made of its readiness to give artists a r...
Revisiting the Matter of Independent Film
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I am old enough to remember the fuss about independent film back in the '90s . That makes me also old enough to remember how little it...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Speaking of Ozymandias . . . (The Fate of Netflix)
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Reading of Netflix's recent woes I have found myself thinking of how much what the company has to offer has changed. The original idea...
Monday, June 6, 2022
Reflections on the
New York Times
#1 Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers of 2021
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Not long ago I considered the bestsellers of the past year, focusing on the Publisher's Weekly list. I now turn to the New York Times &...
Shakespeare, Establishment Poet? Further Thoughts
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Recently reconsidering the matter of Shakespeare's standing as an Establishment poet I found myself thinking of how English literature...
Friday, June 3, 2022
Shakespeare, Establishment Poet?
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Bardolatry has been the default attitude toward Shakespeare in the English-speaking world for centuries. Even people who have never read or ...
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Comment Thread
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You probably noticed it before I did--the vanishing of comment threads from about the web. News sites, Youtube videos--places where you once...
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
Is There Such a Thing as Being "Oversensitive?"
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The word "oversensitive" strikes me as one of those about which a person should display some circumspection. The accusation of ove...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
On Quotation
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It is a standard rhetorical device to quote famous figures. Indeed, teachers of rhetoric in their various forms--forensics, composition, etc...
On "Narcissism"
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The words "narcissism," and "narcissist," seems to have been unused until the nineteenth century--the late nineteenth ce...
When it Comes to Making Us Feel Bad When We're Online Social Media isn't the Half of It--Media Media is the Problem
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It has become a commonplace to remark the tendency of our subjection of ourselves to others' narcissism on social media makes people fee...
Another (Equally Inevitable) Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Piece
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Not long ago I remarked the way the '90s seemed packed with tabloidish media events that (supposedly) transfixed the nation (when in fac...
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