Django: A Passover Story
(10) Comments | Posted March 28, 2013 | 10:49 AM
Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk.
Will Smith made it clear recently that he passed over the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning revenge fantasy Django Unchained because the character wasn’t “the lead.”
“I need to be the lead,” Smith said. “The other character was the…
Free to Be … Me: Why Do Other People’s Choices Make Us So Cranky?
(61) Comments | Posted July 24, 2012 | 3:24 PM
America is suffering from an epidemic. No, it has nothing to do with smoking or obesity; it doesn’t even have to do with gun violence.* It has to do with unwonted bitterness and anger toward other people’s choices. No one, it seems, can be comfortable with their own decisions without…
“Men’s Fiction” vs. “Mommy Porn”
(16) Comments | Posted May 23, 2012 | 2:30 PM
Starting in June, Esquire magazine, in conjunction with Open Road Media, will publish e-books of what it is calling ”Fiction for Men.” According to The New York Times:
David Granger, the editor in chief of Esquire, said he has lamented the loss of space that magazines devoted to publishing fiction….
Stumbling Toward Diversity
(10) Comments | Posted May 11, 2012 | 6:12 PM
Pop culture doesn’t reflect the diversity of day-to-day life in America, especially in urban centers. Lena Dunham’s new series Girls on HBO — so wonderfully, awkwardly realistic when it comes to depicting bad job interviews, the vagaries of friendship, and bad sex — flails like a dying fish when dealing…
A Closer Look at ‘Mommy Porn’
(379) Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 4:20 PM
Currently, Fifty Shades of Grey–an Australian e-book by an unknown female author with no marketing budget–is fourth on USA Today’s Best-Selling Books list, behind only theHunger Games trilogy. Grey’s two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Free, have also climbed into the Top 20. And panic is gripping…
