The show satisfies the teenage cynic in all of us who thinks only sex, ambition, and revenge matter at the top.
Tom Carson
Tom Carson won two National Magazine Awards during his stint as Esquire’s “Screen” columnist and has been nominated twice more as GQ’s movie reviewer. Formerly a staff writer at LA Weekly and The Village Voice, he is the author of Gilligan’s Wake (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2003) and Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter.
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Election 2012, the Movie
What films do the presidential candidates think they’re starring in?
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The Republican Socialist
A new biography shows that Dwight Eisenhower was a more cunning and active president than he gets credit for.
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A Taste for Mediocrity
Why does Hollywood give us bad movies? Because we love them.
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Watergate Finally Gets Its Novel
Thomas Mallon’s new fiction humanizes the ultimate D.C. scandal.
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Charles Portis’s Guide to the GOP
An obscure book that just might explain the GOP race better than any pundit could
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Cowboy vs. Material Girl
In the Super Bowl culture contest, Eastwood’s “Halftime in America” beat Madonna’s halftime act.
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Woody Allen’s Excellent Adventure
Midnight in Paris is nothing more than a dilettante’s guide to the City of Lights.
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I Fought PBS and PBS Won
Downton Abbey gives the network a bona fide guilty pleasure.