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Thursday, February 23, 2023
Baywatch
as a Piece of Pop Cultural History
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Baywatch had its premiere on NBC back in 1989 and actually was a network show for its first year, but after its cancellation by the network...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Remembering
Baywatch
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It has been a third of a century since Baywatch first hit the airwaves, and on streaming it is back, remastered and as bright and glossy as...
Of
Greedy
and
McTeague
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I remember how back in March 1994 the film Greedy came out with what seemed somewhat more than the usual fanfare for a late winter/early sp...
Mike Davis'
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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The novelist Frank Norris remarked that the United States had only three "story" cities, and identified them as New York, New Orl...
The California Dream and its Waning
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Reading Mike Davis' City of Quartz I was surprised to find the extent to which Los Angeles is a product of real estate boosterism--the ...
A Zombie (Firm) Apocalypse?
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The term "zombie firm" apparently goes back to at least 1987 but, unsurprisingly, acquired its current popularity with economic an...
Friday, February 17, 2023
How Would Dostoyevsky's Underground Man Be Living Today?
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Reading one's way through the classics of nineteenth century literature one can scarcely avoid Fyodor Dostoyevsky--and while he is perha...
Top Gun 2 vs. Avatar 2: A Note
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In 2022 fans of Top Gun crowed at the reception to the sequel, with some justification. The movie was the #1 hit of the year at the North A...
The (D)Evolution of Keir Starmer's Rhetoric: From the Ten Pledges to His 2023 New Year's Speech
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Back during the Labour Party's leadership contest in 2020 Keir Starmer presented to the world a social democratic platform of "ten ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
On the Entertainment Media's Coverage of "Bond 26"
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It may seem odd that I am writing about the coverage of "Bond 26" rather than about the (as yet nonexistent but widely anticipated...
Robert Heinlein's
Friday
, Again
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In Robert Heinlein's novel Friday the character identified as the Boss remarked at one point in the novel that "a dying culture in...
The Screen DC Universe Reboots: What Can We Expect?
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The superhero movie genre has been booming from the very start of this century, with the entire period seeing the major studios barraging au...
Saturday, February 11, 2023
What Do
The Fabelmans
,
Batgirl
and
Rust
Tell Us About the Future of the Movies?
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Especially as two of the three films I name in the title of this post have not even been released--one of them, in fact, unlikely to even be...
Are Commercials More Annoying Than They Used to Be? Yes, Yes They Are.
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A certain sort of person shrugs off other people's observations about the ways in which the world may be changing with the view that eve...
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The "Other" Stan Lee
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When we speak of a writer named Stan Lee people will probably assume one means the Stan Lee associated with Marvel Comics, where he has gene...
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