I Kind Of Love Werner Herzog

“It does not bespeak great wisdom to call the film The Bad Lieutenant, and I only agreed to make the film after William (Billy) Finkelstein, the screenwriter, who had seen a film of the same name from the early nineties, had given me a solemn oath that this was not a remake at…

Astro Boy: A Movie I Will Not Be Seeing and I’ll Watch Any Crap

Seriously.Astro Boy! Is anyone actually going to watch this? Me and a bajillion fandorks saw the extended clip at SD ComicCon and it was so that baroque-ass expensive meh where you HAAAAAATE it for existing (until…

Georgia O’Keeffe Still Suspect Because Of Her Ladyness

A big honking Georgia O’Keeffe show opens at the Whitney Museum tomorrow, with 130 objects documenting her abstract work. (The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum hoards 1,149 drawings, paintings and sculptures; her catalogue raisonné includes…

Billboard’s Chart Race Adds Fuel To Race War Fire

Dear Bill Thompson

Dear Bill Thompson,

I have never met you. As far as I know, no one I know has ever met you. I couldn’t pick you out of a lineup-and I can say that because I just now went Googling for a picture of you and I didn’t even know you were black, so I didn’t even know that…

In Attempt To Destroy Itself, MTV Greenlights Puppet Show

The Unholy Acorn Mess

Garden State Conservatives Wonder If Barack Obama Is The Anti-Christ

Public Policy Polling runs some numbers: “We’ve been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how…

Jimmy Carter On Barack Obama And Race

Yeah, We’re Going With A Twitter Joke

Slate’s Chief Political Correspondent John Dickerson makes the business of reporting on…