Video Digest: March 23, 2006
Thanking Aaron Eckhart for ssssmokin’.
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Our main priority at TMN has always been to provide excellent stories: funny stories, sharp stories, stories you don’t read anywhere else, and all with tighter editing than Ron Perelman’s divorce papers. Falling a very distant second is our hunt for advertising—we’re writers and editors, not
Brushes With the Law
Who knew what evil once lurked in our hearts? Arsonists, accomplices, troublemakers all, here are nine lives of crime, cut short.
22 March 2006
New York's currently: very sunny, very cold, very eager to see spring Basque separatists ETA declare permanent ceasefire. Political capital burns in Iraq, says Bush, plus troops will be there until 2009. Conservatives gleeful that federal money--at least $157 million in grants--is finally funneling to their
21 March 2006
New York's currently: desperately seeking summer FBI agent testifies that his superiors' lack of interest in Moussaoui's terrorist connections was "criminally negligent." Everything in Iraq going according to strategy, claims Bush; Iraqis buy terrorism insurance. Insurgents attack police station north of Baghdad, free
The Cast of Blossom vs. Wu-Tang Clan
It’s true that this year’s South by Southwest music festival brought a number of unlikely musical pairings to the stage. Few were as unlikely as Joey Lawrence and Raekwon. (Whoa!)
The Seven Veils of Self-Importance
The bets are in, the brackets are filled out, and the judges have sharpened their knives. Welcome to the 2006 Tournament of Books, sponsored by Powells.com.
20 March 2006
New York's currently: crowing Three years on, Bush and Cheney see success in Iraq, though Allawi says a civil war is underway. Details of abuse from U.S. anti-terrorism unit, like inmates used as paintball targets. Villepin indicates he won't back down on labor law;
Book Digest: March 20, 2006
After Fidel; Black Marks; Huey; Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929; A Public Space; Literary Lives; Manliness; The Believer; The Last Supper; American Movie Critics
Attention Screenwriters
I’ve noticed an abundance of horror films over the past few years, the premises of which involve a thing that somehow somebody gets a hold of that winds up killing them. Like The Ring, where a videocassette is traded around, and whomever sees it is later dies. Or that