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Walter Peck Was Just Doing His Job (excerpt)
Published Oct. 13, 2010 In his initial discussion with Venkman, Peck simply asks him a series of questions that are clearly relevant to his reason for the visit and pertinent to his job. Things get...
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Pitt vs. Norton: A Brutal Casting Call (excerpt)
Published on Oct. 21, 2010 So if his goal in the film is to bring to a halt his effeminate and vapid consumerist tendencies, why is the Narrator taking up residence with Brad “The Sexiest Man Alive As...
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner to Narrate “Mad Men”… (excerpt)
Published on Oct. 28, 2010 One of the opening scenes of the Season 2 premiere quickly establishes African Americans as potential narrators, sympathetic figures, even voices of reason. Joan is trying...
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“500 Days” Will Last a Lifetime (excerpt)
Published on Feb. 17, 2011 Looking back through history, each faction of young people via the artistic community expressed a sense of disillusion, disconnect, and dissatisfaction with social norms and...
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“Seinfeld” Scores a Bull’s-Eye
Published Nov. 20, 2011 To begin simply, Seinfeld is one of the best television shows of all time, regardless of genre. And it would be hard to argue against anyone who ranks it at the very top of...
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Five Rock Albums That Inspired Big-Name Acts You Probably Don’t Own, But...
Published Apr. 16, 2012 Refused – “The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts” Released: 1998 Genre: Punk/Hardcore/Emo/Screamo Influenced: At the Drive-In/The Mars...
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The Bittersweet Comfort Food of Post-Sandy Astoria
The only purchases I made the day Hurricane Sandy hit were of a couple of six packs and (when my friends and I got tired of the seemingly sensationalized news coverage) some On Demand movies. It was a...
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An Ode to Upper Ditmars
Many would view my neighborhood as an indiscriminate place, and I can see why. The “Upper Ditmars” section of Astoria, between Steinway Street and LaGuardia Airport, is middle-class, quiet and safe....
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Meeting “Pretty Ricky”
Photo: Kyria Abrahams The game was over in a few minutes, and Ricky emerged from his team’s celebratory huddle. I told him why I was there that Sunday, and asked if he would mind chatting for a bit....
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On Being a Mets Fan
People expect Mets fans to be cynical, negative, and downtrodden. Black clouds follow us everywhere—the Jets fans of baseball. This is not simply due to losing, even if it comes in unfathomably copious...
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