Subject:

Margaret Thatcher

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    My Thoughts On The Oscars As They Happen!

    The show started with great dignity. Morgan Freeman came out and a friend of mine said, "Is that the one who fucks the granddaughter?"

  • Columns

    February 22, 2012

    Meryl Won't Win, and Other Surefire Oscar Predictions

    This is the only ballot you'll need at your viewing party

  • News

    December 28, 2011

    Musto Occupies 2011: A Rich Year for Gossip

    This is the only ballot you'll need at your viewing party

  • Film

    December 28, 2011

    I Don't Know How She Did It: Thatcher as Victim in The Iron Lady

    This is the only ballot you'll need at your viewing party

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    The Year in Film: People of the Year

    Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Harvey Weinstein is Back -- NY Film Critics

    The big news to emerge from yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle voting--held early this year to scoop the other year end awards--is, of course, the second coming of homeboy Harvey Weinstein. Not only was The Artist voted best picture and its director Michel Hazanavicius anointed Best Director ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher: The First Review

    The Guardian has seen The Iron Lady, with the esteemed Meryl Streep as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and they're not afraid to tell us about it. The film, they say, is a "breezy, whistle-stop tour through the unstable nitroglycerin of Thatcher's life and times." They insist that it's l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    It's A Great Year For Best Actress

    ​The Emmy nominations came out today, but my mind is stuck on the Oscars and how there will be no shortage of leading actress contenders to pick from in 2011. Not only is Meryl Streep donning prosthetics and an accent again, this time as moxieish Margaret Thatcher, but we have the following o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher: Another Oscar?

    ​Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a heavily researched, carefully made up film called The Iron Lady? Reeks of Oscar, right? Well, I know the answer.

  • Film

    March 30, 2011

    Patricio Guzman Refuses to Forget the Bloody Past

    ​Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a heavily researched, carefully made up film called The Iron Lady? Reeks of Oscar, right? Well, I know the answer.

  • Film

    June 29, 2010

    Great Directors: As Asinine as the Title Suggests

    ​Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a heavily researched, carefully made up film called The Iron Lady? Reeks of Oscar, right? Well, I know the answer.

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2009

    Hillary and Palin catch a cup of coffee, maybe

    ​Sarah Palin, or maybe her ghostwriter, wrote in Palin's new book about sharing a hypothetical cup of coffee with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On Meet the Press today, David Gregory passed the idea along to Clinton, who said OK.

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Good Morning, Kellesimone Waits, Whose Paintings, Given That She Is Tom Waits' Daughter, Are Every Bit As Perverse As You Might Expect

    ​Here we have Hilary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, part of Power Plays, a new exhibit of Kellesimone's work at a gallery in, uh, Santa Monica. The Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paintings are way more intense. They're on view until January 2nd. Recommended for political junkies and/or s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Against Health Care Reform

    ​Did you once boycott Domino's Pizza because of its support of the anti-abortion movement and other right wing causes? Well, here's another politically retrograde business to add to your boycott list: Whole Foods. According to an article in the current Counterpunch by Russell Mokhiber, of sin ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 8, 2009

    Lily Allen

    ​Did you once boycott Domino's Pizza because of its support of the anti-abortion movement and other right wing causes? Well, here's another politically retrograde business to add to your boycott list: Whole Foods. According to an article in the current Counterpunch by Russell Mokhiber, of sin ... More >>

  • Film

    March 18, 2009

    The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger

    ​Did you once boycott Domino's Pizza because of its support of the anti-abortion movement and other right wing causes? Well, here's another politically retrograde business to add to your boycott list: Whole Foods. According to an article in the current Counterpunch by Russell Mokhiber, of sin ... More >>

  • Art

    July 9, 2008

    Retro Man

    ​Did you once boycott Domino's Pizza because of its support of the anti-abortion movement and other right wing causes? Well, here's another politically retrograde business to add to your boycott list: Whole Foods. According to an article in the current Counterpunch by Russell Mokhiber, of sin ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    A Curse on Your Walls

    ​Did you once boycott Domino's Pizza because of its support of the anti-abortion movement and other right wing causes? Well, here's another politically retrograde business to add to your boycott list: Whole Foods. According to an article in the current Counterpunch by Russell Mokhiber, of sin ... More >>

  • Film

    May 20, 2008

    The Cannes Film Festival Thus Far

    Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2007

    Hugs and Kisses: Jeffrey Lewis's 12 Crass Songs

    Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

  • Film

    July 17, 2007

    Working Class Heroes—and Zeros

    Shane Meadows lovingly recreates his Thatcher-era England youth, but loses perspective

  • Music

    May 8, 2007

    A track-by-track Clash tribute that cuts the crap

    The Sandinista! Project

  • Art

    April 4, 2006

    On High

    Christian college takes root in the Empire State Building

  • NYC Life

    February 28, 2006

    Wonder Women

    A season of old masters, Gumby, biomorphs, and cell phones

  • Theater

    August 30, 2005

    Boys Don't Dance

    Billy Elliot rocks the West End with its gripping storyline

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2004

    Friday Night! What a Riot!

    Billy Elliot rocks the West End with its gripping storyline

  • News

    June 8, 2004

    Das Rongold

    Reagan's funeral as a Wagnerian opera. Plus: Eminem as censor

  • News

    June 1, 2004

    Bush Takes a Ride in Reagan's Wake

    Days of mourning, days of campaigning

  • Music

    May 11, 2004

    Anti-Gravitational Boots

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • News

    April 6, 2004

    Shock and Disgust

    British officials blast U.S. for its 'HAM-fisted overkill' in Iraq

  • Art

    August 5, 2003

    Uncommon Knowledge

    A Talk With Ben Schott, Compiler of a Big Little Treasury of Trivial Facts

  • News

    May 20, 2003

    Humanizing Mike

    Why Won't the Mayor Let Us Get Close to Him?

  • Art

    May 13, 2003

    Dark Star

    Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Visual Exorcisms

  • News

    February 25, 2003

    Nation

    Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Visual Exorcisms

  • Books

    December 17, 2002

    Road Scholar

    Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Visual Exorcisms

  • Film

    September 24, 2002

    The Untouchables

    Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Visual Exorcisms

  • Music

    September 10, 2002

    Music

    Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Visual Exorcisms

  • Film

    August 27, 2002

    Model Service

    You Say He's Just a Friend

  • News

    May 14, 2002

    The Politics of Pim

    Being Gay Helped This Murdered Dutch Politician in Many Ways

  • Film

    February 5, 2002

    Gimme Shelter

    Sundance's Real Deals

  • Theater

    June 12, 2001

    Suspicious Minds

    Sussing ‘Sus’; a Rabid Rabe

  • Film

    March 13, 2001

    Trade-Offs

    Sussing ‘Sus’; a Rabid Rabe

  • Books

    July 18, 2000

    Midnight’s Children

    Sussing ‘Sus’; a Rabid Rabe

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    Nation

    Sussing ‘Sus’; a Rabid Rabe

  • News

    October 5, 1999

    Dung Jury

    Jockeying for Position in the Culture Wars

  • Books

    August 17, 1999

    Down and Out in London

    Jockeying for Position in the Culture Wars

  • Art

    August 10, 1999

    Balls of the Belles

    The Women's Picture

  • News

    March 30, 1999

    Profit and Loss

    Why the U.S. gets so little bang for its health care buck

  • News

    January 5, 1999

    Twisted Misters

    A Year of Ill Repute

  • Film

    November 10, 1998

    Ardor in the Court

    Shekhar Kapur, Queen Maker

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