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Is The Tide Turning?

March 16, 2010

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

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

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

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 pieces [...]

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Oscar Nominations

February 4, 2010

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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