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‘Would He’ Allen? WSJ’s Rabinowitz Says No
The hardreading staff over at Two-Daily Town has dutifully recorded Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan’s sandblasting of Woody Allen’s defense against allegations by his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, that he sexually molested her as a child. Now comes Wall Street … Continue reading
The ‘Ray Donovan’ Rumpus? It Ends Tonight!
As the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider noted earlier, the Times-Industrial Complex rendered a split decision on Showtime’s new series Ray Donovan. New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley found it “grandiose, predictable and painfully slow,” while kissin’ cousin Boston Globe critic Matthew Gilbert considered it “fantastic.” … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Co. Town (‘Ray Donovan’ Edition)
Showtime’s new series Ray Donovan premieres this Sunday, and the Times-Industrial Complex renders a split decision on the crime drama. Start with the mothership. Here’s New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley’s take on the show. Family Ties, Boston Style, … Continue reading
Why God Made TV Critics
Two of the hardworking staff’s favorite television critics have very different takes on the sixth season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men. The Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz: Don Draper’s Inferno The sixth season of “Mad Men” brings a whiff of … Continue reading
NYT, WSJ Handicap The 2012 Election
Somebody please get the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz and the New York Times’s Nate Silver into the same room. In Wednesday’s Journal, Rabinowitz makes a compelling case for Newt Gingrich as a viable alternative to Mitt Romney in the … Continue reading
Palin By Comparison
Is it good or bad for Sarah Palin (R-No Hopey, No Changey) that she’s being attacked from the left and from the right? Lefty Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic has the No Hopey beat covered. Righty Dorothy Rabinowitz of … Continue reading
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Conservative PunditWorld, Hasan Edition
Nice compare/contrast on Tuesday between the hard-right chattering classes and the moderate-conservative chinstrokerati. Representing the former: Wasp-penned Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz. Representing the latter: Every-liberal’s-favorite-conservative David Brooks, New York Times op-ed columnist. Both Brooks and Rabinowitz … Continue reading