Friday, January 29, 2010

Holden Caufield: A Singer at Heart

"You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'? I'd like — " "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns." She was right, though. It is "If a body meet a body coming through the rye."...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Burning Up the Screen in Tight Jeans and T-Shirt

Burn Notice blazed back into our cold January lives last Thursday, with Fiona still in the US (now that it’s not safe for her to return to Ireland), Sam his usual unflappable self, Mama Westen stretching her own operative chops (and briefly reunited with her old Cagny & Lacey star Tyne Daly), and...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Hope for Haiti, and a Great International Battle of the Bands

What an amazing night of television. I watched the Hope for Haiti telethon. I liked the softness of the performances, which was appropriate in the face of the tens of thousands who died, like the hushed tones you automatically adopt when you walk into a funeral home. But music brings hope and comfort...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Unmitigated Suffering

The news and images from Haiti are soul-wrenching, humbling. We take daily life for granted. There is no other way to live---but it can all be swept away in a flash in any number of ways, from an earthquake or a flood to man-made catastrophes. I live on the Upper Upper West Side in Manhattan. The #1 subway line, which runs along Broadway, surfaces at 122 street, and the 125th street station is an...
              

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Sag Harbor: A Letter Forgotten

I love the whiteness of January. After all the holiday red and green and blue have been tucked away there is an appealing sleek brightness to the first 31 days, when the day light has a particular absence of color. Is it a coincidence that we have the tradition of the January White Sales, when sheets...
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Sherlock and the Doctor: Two Franchises for the Teens

It will be interesting to see what new characters enter our collective imagination in the 2010s, but two highlights of the aughts were the rebooted Doctor Who TV series, most fully realized by David Tennant who took over from Christopher Eccleston just 13 episodes in, and our beloved Sherlock Holmes,...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy 010110

Quite the binary-code start to the new decade, isn’t it. Could this be the beginning of how humanity comes to live inside the Matrix?A new decade within the new millennium. From a psychological point of view it feels more “new” than 1990 did, than all of the recent decades of the last century did, since...
              
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