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A 2007 Filmmaker Magazine interview with director Charles Burnett vs. a 2019 NPR interview with presidential candidate Joe Biden.
A 2017 The Fanzine interview with novelist Ottessa Moshfegh vs. a 2021 GQ interview with rapper Lil Nas X.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde was sometimes just as paramount as the Janus myths in defining DC’s two-faced characters.
A 2002 Archives of American Act interview with the late artist Anne Truitt vs. a 1980 Bennington Review interview with the late poet John Ashbery.
Peggy Noonan and Jen Psaki’s peccadillos and the need for a coronavirus wartime mentality.
A 1985 D Magazine interview with the late novelist James A. Michener vs. a 2005 The Believer interview with Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O.
A DC miniseries known for its giant cast of characters, wild sci-fi premises, surreal humor, and historical pretense.
Stellar writing and acting with typically incoherent TV cutting and coverage. A show this good shouldn’t look this bad.
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! is a loving tribute to taped TV.
A 2021 BOMB Magazine interview with painter Naudline Pierre vs. a 2020 Guernica Magazine interview with New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als.
DC Comics writer E. Nelson Bridwell deserves a place in the pantheon of historians including Gibbon, Herodotus, and Shirer.
On the work of heavy metal performance artist Jon-Mikl Thor.
How the British honors system dishonors us all.
It’s one thing to become accepted for who you are, it’s another to inflict yourself on the world.
Chappelle appears genuinely hurt and miffed about being labeled transphobic.
Captain Mar-Vell is a rarity in the super hero world because he's a character who has stayed dead ever since he was killed off.
Society is nuts, but that doesn’t put you in charge.
There’s no quick summary for this grand mass of inventive splendor.
"Let's Do the Fink" is a grotesque dance craze parody.
Memo to 2020: you were real, you were fun, but you were never real fun.
Our cultural watchdogs are telling us that they're "problematic."
Promoting the film Give My Regards to Broad Street.
From a CBC interview in 2015.
The late comedian and actor promotes Dirty Work, starring Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange.
Why can't Carrie and Samantha just get along?
Promoting the Seinfeld finale and his long forgotten movie Sour Grapes.
An unedited 29-minute interview with the legendary comedian and actor.
15 minutes with a few appearances of Bob Hope and Don Rickles.
A compilation of appearances, one of them while promoting The Art of the Deal.
A 45-minute talk given just six months before Bruce's death.
