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Within hours of Donald Trump's January, 2017 swearing-in ceremony, White House press secretary Sean Spicer declared, contrary to all evidence, that it was the best attended inauguration ever, “period.” Two days later, on Meet The Press, top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway “clarified” the matter with her chilling “newspeak” contention that Spicer was merely offering “a...

Of the many “unnecessary remakes” of the 2000s, Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate is among the laziest and poorly-executed. Released in July 2004, Demme’s update of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 paranoid classic is remarkably non-partisan and vague, adhering to the beats of the original with some necessary adjustments for period. Denzel Washington’s in the Frank Si...

Since I was a little kid, I haven’t fit in. This isn’t a victim-sobbing post. As a kid I grew up in an apartment complex just outside the main line of Philadelphia, surrounded by some of the wealthiest people in the world while my parents never owned a home. I worked at the mall, others shopped. In college I worked three jobs to pay tuition, no time for sororities or parties....

Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that California had joined the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a Swiss-based outfit that drafts the conservation rulebook for much of the planet. The press

Lorne, the documentary about Lorne Michaels, isn’t so much a valentine as a funny gift card. The boss comes in for a lot of ribbing, and the film plays a jolly game of keep-away with the audience. Talk of the real Lorne Michaels periodically surfaces (“Who is Lorne Michaels?” the narrator asks) only to be batted aside by another reminder of his unknowability. Th...