Posts Tagged ‘smart ass’

Rita Hayworth

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

I haven’t been the same since! The film was very sophisticated for its day –dealing with adult themes –love and betrayal –against a backdrop of exotic gangersterism and Nazi intrigue immediately following the war. One is tempted to conclude that Hollywood didn’t even try to match the sharp barbed, smart-ass comebacks until ‘Basic Instinct’ with [...]

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Journalism Giant Clay Felker Dies

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Felker’s wife, the writer Gail Sheehy, wrote an article for Tango magazine wrote about their life together. Clay Felkers own rock stardom as a media pioneer, however, endures. It doesnt matter that he did his great, seminal work way back when. During the seventies and eighties, the Times (and much of the rest of mainstream [...]

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Igby Goes Down

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Steer?s Holden Caufield is named Igby, one of those smart-ass discontent teenagers who seemingly hates everything and everyone around him while clearly having no direction for his own life. But wait, there?s more.Having been placed in more military and prep schools than Damien Thorne in Heaven, Igby escapes his latest institution and gets a job [...]

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