The Sum of All Fears is a strange movie — a curious combination of timeliness and irrelevance. Much has been made of Sum author and executive producer Tom Clancy’s prescience in foreshadowing terrorist attacks on America: His 1994 book The Debt of Honor featured an enraged pilot crashing a plane into the Capitol. As a […]
Noy Thrupkaew
Noy Thrupkaew is a Prospect senior correspondent.
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All Things Celebrity:
There it was, like a burp that resurrects the memory of a junk-food binge: Celebrity Boxing 2. And this after Fox put out a week of miserable series finales only roaches and rats could survive: the undead horror that was The X-Files got a stake put through its heart, and Ally McBeal was finally kicked […]
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The Real Menace:
So: I was glumly kicking around outside the theater, feeling a queasy combination of dread and excitement at seeing the latest installment in the Star Wars legacy, Attack of the Clones. Dread because reviewers — from The New York Times to Salon to The Washington Post — had nearly run out of adjectives in describing […]
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Mexican Pie (and then some):
When you see the first scene of Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too), you might think you have this movie pegged. Two teens are screwing — noisily, nastily, and clumsily — below a poster of that cult-movie classic, Harold and Maude. A panting discussion commences: Promise me you won’t fuck any Italians, says […]
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A Dollar Short
The Web site of Democratic Congressman George Miller of California features a touching photo of the signing of the education reform bill at an Ohio school on January 8. Flanked by beaming African-American children, Miller, Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Republican Congressman John Boehner of Ohio — three of the bill’s four authors […]
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Shoes Off:
Ah, Barbie: feminist whipping girl, delight of fashion-forward children, she of the flowing flaxen mane, booboisie charms, and impossibly pointed feet. Barbie’s been doing some soul-searching lately, which is what happens when a parent dies. Her creator, Ruth Handler, passed away recently, sparking a wave of nostalgia and introspection on the part of those who […]
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Hurts So Good:
Elvis Costello is not dead. He’s just been reincarnated in stranger and stranger shapes over the course of his decades-long career: from punk and singer-songwriter to fusionist and haute artiste. With the just-released When I Was Cruel, Costello has reappeared in what seems to be, upon first listen, a retro-form: Elvis the rocker, the bilious […]
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John Leguizamo’s Next Show:
With a title like “Sexaholix…A Love Story,” John Leguizamo‘s recent one-man special on HBO gives us fair warning what we’re in for: a one-two punch of cute raunchiness and unabashed romanticism; and a comedic enactment of the pull between yowling boy id and wised-up man love. But for the post-There’s Something About Mary and –American […]
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George Lopez’s Hopes:
It’s not easy breaking into TV. Especially if you’re not white. As Comedian George Lopez joked to USA Today, there are “more pets in prime-time TV than Latinos.” He may very well be right. According to the 2000 Census, Latinos make up 12.5 percent of the U.S. population. In the world of TV, however, they […]
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Scold Move:
Culture has been corroding young minds and horrifying parents ever since Mozart wrote Le Nozze di Figaro, complete with a randy count and a who’s-yo-mama subplot. More recent examples might include Elvis and his hips, or Madonna and, well, herself. It’s an old, old story. But some people can’t seem to stop telling it. A […]
