Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post Glynnis Macnicol, editor at FishbowlNY.com, polls a number of notables (including Salman Rushdie, Fred Armisen and Ana Marie Cox) about their favorite recent reading. Jon Meacham, editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and author of the recent biography...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The January issue of Smithsonian magazine features an article by James Reston Jr., whose book The Conviction Of Richard Nixon was an important source for the play and film Frost/Nixon (and who was portrayed in the play as the onstage narrator of the proceedings,...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Russ Smith is a Baltimore resident and occasional contributor to the Wall Street Journal. But once upon a time he was quite a potent figure in the world of “alt-weeklies,” founding the Baltimore City Paper in 1977 and a Washington counterpart four years...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today we learned that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has informed New York Gov. David Paterson that yes, she does want to sit in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacated seat on Capitol Hill. Before I get to the touching video clip featured in this post, let me...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“Tell me about the loneliness of Good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of Evil?” – Frank Langella as Skeletor (in a line he personally wrote), to Dolph Lundgren in He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe In a comment to my post about the...
