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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of…
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In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous…
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the…
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Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals…
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The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently…
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Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate…
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that…
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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a…
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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered…
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such…
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My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are…
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Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of…
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In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the…
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Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and…
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Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no,…
— Desmond Dekker
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Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.
— Jim Woodring
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked…
— Camille Paglia
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Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine.…
— Melissa Marr
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It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision…
— Katherine Paterson
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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid.…
— Katherine Paterson
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'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.
— Gerald Durrell
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Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm…
— Melissa Marr
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