Apr 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The career of Joan Chen (Shanghai-born, and a US citizen since 1989) has stretched over a quarter-century and includes many notable films in both Chinese and English, though here she is still probably best remembered for playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks. In...
Apr 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
George S. Kaufman famously defined “satire” as “what closes on Saturday night”. The most recent example of this was Saturday Night Live’s cold open last weekend, a parody campaign commercial in which Bill and Hillary Clinton discuss their...
Apr 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In his post-movie days, Charlton Heston wrote many best-selling books and accepted several invitations from the Nixon Library to lecture and autograph. Naturally, he’d always attract a standing-room-only crowd eager to hear his commentary, enjoy that amazing...
Apr 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Following in the footsteps of Barry Goldwater, John McCain ended his “Service to America” tour with an appearance in Prescott, Arizona. I was able to attend this function, as it is only a short walk from my house to the Yavapai County Courthouse. In the...
Apr 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As the Democrats prepare to go the distance, with the protracted battle for their party’s nomination not likely to be resolved for many months, their drama is the page-one political campaign news story these days. Most of the stuff about John McCain is on page-two....
Apr 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
John Heinz died seventeen years ago today. Tragically and tragically before time. The issues he cared about —and characteristically burrowed in on— were seen as esoteric, and even irrelevant, by many at the time. But today we can see that the reform of...
