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Ted Turner’s 1978 Playboy interview is everything I hoped it would be
America was still getting to know Ted Turner in 1978. In the preceding two years he went from a nobody who owned a struggling VHF station in Atlanta to the winner of America’s cup and the owners of the Braves and Hawks. Contributing editor Ross Range “tape(d) everything, and because Turner’s mouth almost never stops,…
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‘A partial list of my favorite things’
Dabney Coleman is to “Modern Problems” as Charles Grodin is to “The Lonely Guy”:
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The week in stupid: Beyonce, birthers and Chris Brown as Black Jesus
In case you missed it … ♦Beyonce, blander than unflavored yogurt, somehow tilted the earth’s axis by unexpectedly releasing a new album. The reaction was a bit much. When Beyoncé walks, she tells us, she walks with a vengeance. When she enters the room, she commands every eyeball and ear her way. And what an…
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The Malcontent’s Most Annoying People, Places & Things of 2013: Lance Armstrong
Armstrong is still whining, claiming that he was singled out by the USADA because he “asshole.” Maybe you should stop being an asshole then, Lance.
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The Malcontent’s Most Annoying People, Places & Things of 2013: The musical
Make it stop: I hoped this might do it: But just when you thought we might be rid of this plague, a live performance of “The Sound of Music” strikes ratings gold, leading the brain-dead sycophants at “Entertainment Weekly” to surmise that “musicals are ready for a comeback.” The hills are alive with the sound…
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The Malcontent’s Most Annoying People, Places & Things of 2013: Celebrity lickspittles
If you have Sirius/XM, I dare you to listen to the Entertainment Weekly station. Odds are you will want to hurt someone after. The hosts, who all work for the magazine, worship at the Church of Celebrity Adoration, eager to bask in the glow of the famous. Recently I heard the EW editor, a rather…
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