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Eric Scheske

Epstein on Hollywood

America's best essayist is Joseph Epstein. We have a collection of books by Epstein, most of which are collections of his essays. When we find an Epstein essay on-line, especially a new one, we're ecstatic, especially if it's in an area that interests

Threefer

Perhaps it's shameful on our part, but we're going to (try to) start a blog meme, one of those chain-blog messages that bloggers pass among each other. It's simple: 1. Name your three biggest non-reference books (excluding the Bible and text books)

Not Bad for a Hollywoodite

> Kate Hudson has interesting ideas about marriage. On TV's ''Access Hollywood," the actress said, ''I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen." She added: ''I

NPCAA

They want to be PC, they really do. But they don't have the guts, so they go part way: > The NCAA announcement Friday that it will ban the use of American Indian mascots and logos by sports teams during postseason NCAA tournaments, but not in the regular

The Weekend Eudemon

Another Saturday morning, another case of writer's block. We try to write the first draft of The Weekend Eudemon on Friday evening, preferably after a few block-removing beers, but Eric was in charge (not control) of Meg and Max--the spunky four-year-old and wandering two-

Neat List

We're not sure exactly what to make of it, but it's a pretty neat list. > The magazine Uncut asked industry experts and movie and music icons to name their seminal moments from the past 50 years. . . > Top 20 > 1. Bob Dylan “Like a

Far Out

> Fittingly, it's been a long journey. After years of wandering, Beat writer Jack Kerouac's On the Road is finally jumping from the page to the screen. Francis Ford Coppola – whose American Zoetrope production company has owned the film rights to the classic road-trip novel

Intelligent Design Defense

David Limbaugh points out the strengths of intelligent design theories. Link [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20050805.shtml]. Excerpt: > Many of ID's cynical detractors patronizingly frame this entire debate in terms of a struggle between faith and science. Intelligent Design, they say, is but a thinly

Black History

Maybe we need to watch more of The History Channel in February. This fascinating fellow Gannibal has fallen through our reading net (which we--probably foolishly--like to think is rather large): > In his elegantly written new biography, Hugh Barnes suggests Gannibal was born in Chad, taken as a

Lactating Frenzy Continues

> A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for the treatment of sick babies. > Prolacta Bioscience, a small company just outside Los Angeles, also wants to carry out research to develop breast milk-based therapies. > Breast milk, with its minerals, digestive