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Travel Week

October 24, 2011 Culture

Back at home after a week of zipping around the country.  I was in Nashville on Monday and Tuesday to meet with my friends and publishers at Thomas Nelson.  They were having a sales conference and I was there to introduce my new young adult novel Crazy Dangerous. Book has a terrific jacket, but I [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Klavan, gbtv, thomas nelson, wedgwood circle

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PJTV’s Klavan on the Culture Suspended

September 19, 2011 Culture

If you look at the news section over there somewhere, you’ll see the happy news that I’m going to be appearing on Glenn Beck’s new online TV station GBTV. I’m contracted to do four satirical commentaries a month for the next six months, and we’ll see where it goes from there.  I’m delighted about this as [...]

Tagged as: gbtv, glenn beck, Klavan on the Culture, PJTV, satire, tcot

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Homelanders in the Hollywood Reporter

August 15, 2011 Culture

This article in last week’s Hollywood Reporter laid out the team that will be tackling the Homelanders movie: Miles Chapman has been hired to pen Summit’s adaptation of Homelanders, a young-adult book series by Andrew Klavan. Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, best known as the showrunners of TV’s Smallville, are working with Chapman in [...]

Tagged as: alfred gough, Andrew Klavan, final hour, homelanders, last thing I remember, miles millar, movies

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Me on Steyn

June 7, 2011 Culture

Here’s a short piece I did for City Journal on the admirable Mark Steyn: Back in the nineties, when I was living in London, I stumbled on a minor columnist of major brilliance. Now and again, I’d find him in some newspaper, writing about a television show I’d never seen or a second-rate play I [...]

Tagged as: broadway babies say goodnight, city journal, mark steyn, musicals

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Movie: Bridesmaids

June 1, 2011 Culture

[Possible spoiler - though I think everything here is in the trailer.] So regarding Bridesmaids:  reality check me here.  A bride and her bridesmaids go to a high-class dress shop.  They all get food poisoning and vomit and have diarrhea over everything.  Is that a funny idea?  Am I missing something?  I mean, I get [...]

Tagged as: bridesmaids, comedy, Kristen Wiig, melissa mccarthy, movies

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DVD: Country Strong

May 18, 2011 Culture

If ever there was a woman who should be seen and not heard it is Gwyneth Paltrow.  I find her stunningly beautiful, but every time she opens her mouth off-screen she sounds awesomely shallow, spoiled rotten and anti-American. In fact, I can’t help wondering if the expatriate actress took this role as an alcoholic country [...]

Tagged as: country music, country strong, gwyneth paltrow, movies, tim mcgraw

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Moving my Blog

May 17, 2011 Culture

For some reason beyond my comprehension, last week’s news item failed to post.  Basically, it announced that I’d be moving my political/cultural blog from this site back to Pajamas Media’s XPress. There, I’ll re-open my old Klavan on the Culture website and join other PJM XPress bloggers like Victor Davis Hansen, Roger L. Simon, Roger [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Klavan, pajamas express, pajamas media, pjm, victor davis hansen

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Success and Silence

May 16, 2011 Culture

Not long ago, a petition went around asking Fox News to move Greg Gutfeld’s terrific Red Eye out of the 3AM time slot to maybe 11PM – some time when it could be seen without the use of a DVR.  Personally, I don’t think this goes far enough.  I would like to see Fox start [...]

Tagged as: conservatives, fox news, greg gutfeld, media, tcot

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Movie: The Rite

May 12, 2011 Culture

Let me say up front that I watched this on a little video gizmo on a cross-country flight – not the best way to see a movie. Six years ago, Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn produced a film called The Exorcism of Emily Rose which was top-notch.  Marketed as a horror film, the picture had [...]

Tagged as: anthony hopkins, exorcism, exorcism of emily rose, the rite

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TV: “The Kennedys”

May 4, 2011 Culture

Call the cops.  Joel Surnow got mugged.  First the usual left wing thugs tried to keep his mini-series The Kennedys off the air.  They succeeded in getting A&E to cancel it but when small-time cabler ReelzChannel took it on, the lefty critics launched their wholly expected and dishonest attacks on the thing, trying to make [...]

Tagged as: JFK, joel surnow, reelzchannel, the kennedys

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