Bob Fosse made five films between 1968 and 1973. The first, Sweet Charity, he had directed and choreographed on the Broadway stage in 1966. Fosse won his fifth Tony Award for the choreography of this show, which starred his wife, Gwen Verdon. I was surprised to learn that the book by Neil Simon was based [...]
Archive for the ‘Sex’ category
On Principal
Watching the television show is not a lonely exercise. The clothes are pretty, the shoes are shiny, and usually the question Carrie asks – a question like, “Were we all in fact just dating the same person over and over again?” – rings a bell with your own life. Each of the four characters has [...]
The great prostitution debate
From Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish:
A reader has an interesting point:
1. Why is it illegal for me to pay a prostitute for sex, but it’s NOT illegal for a film director to pay two people to have sex in front of a camera and then make money for his product in the form of a [...]
Baby, it’s cold outside
So I logged in Sunday night to write what I expected to put up today — a post about my top 15 albums of 2007 — but before I could start composing I noticed on the site’s dashboard that we had received a link from a blog I thought had been abandoned: Is There No [...]
Guns, germs, steel…and Oprah
America’s cultural tradition has come to include the concept that all people deserve equal rights. However, women in many nations (including the United States) are subject to injustices that range from lower wages to spousal abuse, rape, lashing, and stoning. Understandably, among many Americans there is an outcry to intervene in the most [...]
Sex talk
Guy I work with has a son named Jack. Good kid. Solid. 8-years-old. Asked his dad the other day where babies come from. Guy suspected his son already knew and was testing his dad to see how much truth dad would tell. Guy [...]
Thursday linkage: All over the place edition
If you’re wondering whether our country is still more or less a democracy (let alone the kind of state that might help bring about whirled peas or whatever), you must not have read the Washington Post series on Dick Cheney and his frightening influence on the country these past six years. He’s been astonishingly effective [...]
Thursday open thread: Construction of masculinity edition
Because any blog, no matter how high-minded, eventually turns into a YouTube dump.
First, Verka Serduchka’s near-win for Ukraine in the recent Eurovision contest (via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog):
Next, a big, bad, breakdancing man has some bad moral luck (via Justin the Birthday Boy):
Finally, that video than which none more awesome can be conceived (via [...]
Rising up through the talons of the tiger
or to the challenge of arrival
or to the challenge of our rivals.
Whatever.
Bryan at 2:20 am: “2006 is my bitch, yall!!”
Happy New Year from Rocky Balboa and the Garden State Chorale, Inc.
And from all your best friends at The Great Whatsit.
Stella’s treasure chest
Almost every woman is guilty of wearing a bra that is too large in bandwidth and too small in the cup. It’s tempting to get hung up on cup size, Oprah says—she’s been there. “I was in a C for years,” she admits. “I thought only strippers were Ds.”
www.Oprah.com
America’s true decider, Oprah, recently introduced a [...]
