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Dead Blogging ‘Ideation’ & ‘Constellations’ at Area Playhouses
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Watertown last week to catch Ideation (through September 24) at the New Repertory Theatre and say, it was swell. Playwright Aaron Loeb has created “a darkly comic psychological thriller” that starts out as … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Loeb, Central Squ, Christine Hamel, Constellations, Ed Hoopman, Elliot Norton Award, Ideation, Intimate Apparel, Jake Murphy, Jeff Adelberg, Jim Petosa, Lewis D. Wheeler, Lyric Stage, Marianna Bassham, Matt Ketai, Nael Nacer, New Repertory Theatre, Nick Payne, Russian Nesting Dolls, Ryan Bates, Susan Zeeman Rogers
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What the Hell Was Caroline Kennedy Thinking With This Dress?
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk This item by Meredith Goldstein ran in yesterday’s Boston Globe Names column. JFK’s grandson named to Vanity Fair’s Best-Dressed List Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, has made Vanity Fair’s 2017 International Best-Dressed List, which … Continue reading
How the Walter Becker Obits Got Steely Dan All Wrong
Sad to see that Walter Becker, the great guitarist and songwriting partner of Donald Fagen in the redoubtable Steely Dan, died last week at the age of 67. Sadder yet, most obituaries wrote off the Becker/Fagen lyrics as (in the … Continue reading
Rarer Than the Eclipse! Wall Street Journal Runs Ad in NYT!
Here’s something else you’ll see about once every hundreds years: The Wall Street Journal taking out a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times. The hardsipping staff has no idea how many Times readers will discover the WSJwine … Continue reading
Is ‘Trump TV’ Really All That Different From ‘Obama TV’?
There’s been a fair amount of pearl clutching the past few days over the “Real News” videos that TrumpWorld has just started cranking out. The debut edition appeared on Donald Trump’s Facebook page last week and featured First (or Second) Daughter-in-Law … Continue reading
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Tagged "Real News", ABC News, CNN, Eric Trump, Evan McMullin, Jeff Greenfield, Kayleigh McEnany, Lara Trump, Obama TV, Politico, Reliable Sources, Republican National Committee, RoboBlondes for Trump, Trump Nation, Trump TV, West Wing Week, White House Easter Egg Roll
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For the Last Time, People: It’s Bullwinkle T. (Not J.) Moose
Dear splendid readers, If the hardworking staff has told you once, we’ve told you one time that the name of Rocket J. Squirrel’s sidekick is Bullwinkle T. Moose. The death of the great June Foray, who voiced Rocky, has resurfaced … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventures of Dudley Do-Right, Aesop and Son, Associated Press, Bill Scott, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Bullwinkle J. Moose, Bullwinkle T. Moose, Bullwinkle The Moose, First Lady of Animated Voicing, Fractured Fairy Tales, Jay Ward, June Foray, New York Times, Peabody's Improbable History, Rocket J. Squirrel, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Rocky and His Friends, The Bullwinkle Show, Wikipedia
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NYT Editing Slashback: ‘Lawyers . . . Views Their Client’ Edition
As the hardworking staff has noted on several occasions, the New York Times has over the past few months jettisoned its “low-value line editing” and replaced it with “bespoke editing.” Cashiered Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote earlier this year that … Continue reading
Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Cole Porter Edition)
Latest from our (very) occasional series The Great American Songbook is filled with splendid renditions of Cole Porter’s work (see especially Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra), but for our money Bobby Short is the best of the bunch. So the … Continue reading
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