All the Michael Gambon You Could Want
Our new biography of Michael Gambon is now live — just in time for him to join Jimmy Buffett, Tina Turner, and Daniel Ellsberg on our list of famous people …..
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The Lincoln-Douglas-Trump Debates
“Faced with a litany of criminal charges, Donald Trump on Sunday told a campaign rally in Iowa that he would prefer to die by electrocution rather than be eaten by …..
LBJ’s Long Hair
The Atlantic’s Kevin Townsend has a lovely little article about how retired President Lyndon Johnson grew his hair out in Texas in the last year of his life. It starts …..
Mitch McConnell Is No Longer Fit for Office
We’ll say it if no one else will: Mitch McConnell is no longer fit to be a U.S. Senator, much less the Senate minority leader. NBC News has the latest …..
Happy Birthday to Jack Sowards, Who Wrote a Great ‘Star Trek’ Film
It might be going too far to say that Jack B. Sowards *saved* Star Trek. But he sure threw the franchise a lifeline when he wrote the 1982 film Star …..
Mark Gustafson Wins a Well-Deserved Oscar
Yes, yes, congrats to Michelle Yeoh and Brendan Fraser and The Daniels and all the famous names. But the really big winner of Oscar night 2023 is Mark Gustafson, director …..
Jimmy Carter Did His Bit
[Editorial note: Rather than read the post below, try this wonderful article by journalist James Fallows, a Carter speechwriter in the 1970s: An Unlucky President, And A Lucky Man. And …..
A Brief History of Black Names, From Perlie to Latasha
A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that Black names are a recent phenomenon.
James Cameron Got It Right Again
The whole Avatar thing is the biggest boondoggle in the history of cinema. Who cares? — A S Hamrah (@hamrahrama) September 24, 2022 A lot of Avatar 2 tweets …..
Who Was the First Black Child To Go To an Integrated School?
School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.