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My Take on the Oscars

January 13, 2013 Culture

I can’t help making fun of Oscar nominations. It’s not that I don’t think the films are good — very often they are. It’s just that they all have one political point of view, which reinforces the idea that our creative class has become more lockstep conformist than, say, any six guys you could find [...]

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The Oscars

March 1, 2011 Culture

I was taking a walk with my wife Sunday evening when we noticed that there was hardly anyone out and about.  It took a moment or two before we realized:  oh yeah, it’s Oscar night in southern California.  Sort of like Yom Kippur in New York:  if you’re anywhere else, you don’t even know it’s [...]

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Predictions, Oscar and Otherwise

January 31, 2011 Culture

Last week was pretty interesting–and it should be even more interesting to find out what happens next. First, we had a State of the Union message that, had I the capacity for despair, would’ve driven me to it. The president came across as a cynical poseur–a man who responds to the utter refudiation of his [...]

Tagged as: middle east, oscars, sotu

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DVD: The Secret In Their Eyes

October 9, 2010 Culture

This Argentine crime film won the Oscar for best foreign language picture last year and, yeah, it’s very, very good.  Based on a novel by Eduardo Sacheri, it’s set in 1999 with flashbacks to the ’70′s.  It follows a retired federal investigator who writes a novel trying to come to terms with a rape/murder investigation [...]

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Is The Tide Turning?

March 16, 2010 Culture

If you look over to your left (my right from where I am inside your monitor) you will see the delightful news that my Homelanders series has been optioned for film by Summit Entertainment.  What a wonderful opportunity for you to click here and buy one of the books for the young adult in your [...]

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KOC Comment

March 13, 2010 Culture

Just a quick comment on this week’s Klavan on the Culture.  I’ve done my mock Oscar routine a couple of times before, once for the LA Times, once either on a blog or for Big Hollywood, I’m no longer sure.  Every time I do it, I feel a momentary twinge of melancholy for the simple [...]

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KOC At The Oscars

March 11, 2010 Videos

It takes a long time to make a PJTV Klavan on the Culture episode.  First, the little three inch tall Klavan homunculus must be revived from his stony sleep by a grim ceremony involving the blood of left wing virgins – very, very difficult to find!  Then this Klavan thing must write the episode on [...]

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Pass Me A Grapefruit

March 4, 2010 Culture

Remember that famous scene in the old film Public Enemy where Jimmy Cagney shoves a grapefruit into a woman’s face?   It came to mind for some reason when I read this dopey op-ed by Kim Elsesser this morning in the New York Times. Now, normally, I’m so delighted to see the Times put its opinion [...]

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Oscar Nominations

February 4, 2010 Culture

Washington and Hollywood are both experiencing a similar phenomenon:  a complete disconnect between the so-called elites and the rest of us.  Just as our lawmakers are creating programs and policies that have nothing to do with what the people want or need, so our filmmakers are making more and more pictures that no one is [...]

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