by Barbara Lippert | Sep 27, 2023
Editor’s note: Cassidy Hutchinson is back in the news with a new book called Enough, which provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, as an aide to the Chief of Staff of...
by Barbara Lippert | Aug 2, 2023
Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead. *** Ecstatic people in pink are still flooding into theaters, but by now you’ve probably also seen some blowback to the Barbie movie. Who knew it could be such a cultural flashpoint? Granted, just like the doll herself, Barbie, the...
by Barbara Lippert | Apr 12, 2023
Editor’s note: We weren’t planning on running another story about Succession, but after Sunday’s “gut-punch of an episode,” our media critic Barbara Lippert asked us to let her write about the stunning turn in HBO’s family drama...
by Barbara Lippert | Apr 7, 2023
Succession has recently returned to HBO for its fourth (and final) season, and the pressure is mounting. Well, to be fair, the pressure is always mounting in this brilliant series about a fucked-up, foul-mouthed family headed by Logan Roy, a Rupert Murdoch-like media...
by Barbara Lippert | Mar 12, 2023
And the Academy Award for discipline in the face of a slap goes to Chris Rock, who remained silent for almost a year after receiving that shocking smackeroo live on stage during the 2022 Oscars broadcast. What helped him stay mum, of course, was that Netflix had...
