by Dear Dexter | Mar 12, 2007 | Dear Dexter
As I’ve been saying for some time now, the Time of the Troubles is coming, and the anxiety’s starting to percolate down even to the circuits of the machine of mass culture whose mission is to keep us placid and stupid so that when the Gilead attempts its...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 14, 2007 | Dear Dexter
We take up the peculiar tale of Ben Affleck after Gigli, his ill-fated but curiously alluring 2003 lesbian hitman romantic comedy buddy comedy epic with the diva god-dess Jennifer Lopez. His next movie, Paycheck, was surprisingly good. Not Good Will Hunting-good or...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 19, 2007 | Dear Dexter
I’m breaking my alphabetical inclination today because I’m really happy with this entry, which is distilled from an old column. It has something wonderfully efficient about it (if I do so say myself, which I do).A is for American Music AwardsCreated in...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 21, 2007 | Dear Dexter
It says something about me, I suppose, that the image that almost always pops into my head whenever someone says the magic words “Halle Berry” is the one from the classic 2001 cyber/anti-terrorist/kidnapping/deadbeat dad redemption thriller Swordfish. You...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 27, 2007 | Dear Dexter
Some note of grace went out of the world when O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson traded in his thug bandana and AK-47 for some clippers and a barber shop shirt with the name “Calvin” stitched in its breast pocket. Calvin can cut a mean fade, and...
