by Dear Dexter | Jul 2, 2007 | Dear Dexter
In the second paragraph of her 2000 New Yorker profile of Regis Philbin, Elizabeth Kolbert has a wonderfully casual insight that, unfortunately but not surprisingly, the rest of the 5,500 word essay fails to adequately deepen. She writes: Philbin has made a career of...
by Dear Dexter | Jul 16, 2007 | Dear Dexter
We’re now far enough away from the end of the brief, ill-starred marriage of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey to subject Simpson-Lachey (or Nickica, as they were collectively known back when they were a bona fide celebrity supercouple) to the relationship...
by Dear Dexter | Jul 18, 2007 | Dear Dexter
Matt Zoller Seitz, my favorite working film critic (I say that as if there’s a whole legion of non-working critics who I like better, when in truth there’s really just Pauline Kael, who, being dead and all, certainly isn’t working anymore) has a nice...
by Dear Dexter | Jul 23, 2007 | Dear Dexter
James Wolcott has a nice riff off of David Denby’s essay in the recent New Yorker. Though I’m not a huge Denby fan, in general, I think everyone’s being a bit harsh on the essay, which was actually pretty good. Still, I always enjoy Wolcott taking...
by Dear Dexter | Jul 23, 2007 | Dear Dexter
Tom Carson, one of my favorite working all-purpose, culturally omnivorous, pound-for-pound critics, wrote a wonderfulicious essay on Tom Cruise a few years that you just have to read (okay, you don’t have to read it, but if you don’t, you’ll forever...
