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Not for Laughs
March 15, 2011 06:00 AM
“All cartoonists are geniuses,” wrote John Updike in his introduction to a collection of cartoons by Arnold Roth, a specialist in zany quasi-doodles popular in the late fifties and early sixties. Updike, who had wanted to... Continue reading
Essay

Condition Critical
January 29, 2009 08:30 AM
I saw the future through a two-way mirror in November 1990. I had just started a new job as a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, a magazine then less than a year old, and I was sitting in a darkened... Continue reading
Review

Appetite for Fear
February 12, 2008 09:00 AM
Sixty years after the house un-American Activities Committee began hunting for Communists in the entertainment industry, the HUAC hearings that bred the screen blacklist are vivid in the received memory of countless Americans too young to recall the proceedings... Continue reading

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