Mark Tapson
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Do the Movies Have a Future?
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The first of a four-part series In his new collection of essays addressing the art and the business of the entertainment world, New Yo...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Kim Kardashian’s Prayer for Israel Draws Death Threats
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Woe to any celebrity who dares even publicly hint at support for Israel, lest he or she feel the wrath of fans lusting for the destructi...
Monday, November 26, 2012
"The Soup" – A Smorgasbord of Guilty Pleasures
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Pop culture today is bursting with so many guilty pleasure possibilities that it’s impossible to indulge in as many as you’d like without ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia?
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“Sharia-compliant Islam is ascendant.” So writes the incomparable Andrew C. McCarthy in his foreword to Andrew Bostom’s timely new book, S...
Friday, November 16, 2012
Judd Apatow’s Family Values
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I’ve done more than my share of decoding culture for political subtexts. But sometimes cultural messages are best articulated in terms o...
The Last Man: An Interview with Vince Flynn
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Vince Flynn is the author of fourteen thriller novels, every one of which has hit the New York Times bestseller list, and all but one of...
Monday, November 12, 2012
In Praise of American Warriors
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( The following is a Memorial Day piece I wrote for Big Peace in 2009. I usually repost it every Memorial Day, but not this year, so her...
The Lesson of Mr. Holland’s Opus
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Earlier this week, Ryan Murphy posted a thought-provoking piece on Acculturated that posed the question, “ If we have a career dream, ...
Friday, November 9, 2012
Alone, Together
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In Program or Be Programmed , his compelling short guide to seizing control of your life back from the seductive embrace of technology, ...
Hollywood’s Last-Minute Push for Obama
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Right on the heels of President Obama’s very revealing statement encouraging his supporters to vote out of a sense of revenge, comes a s...
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