Having lived his whole life with his father incarcerated, True Life's Austin is understandably excited and worried when he hears of an early parole. Both are unsure as father and son, their relationship hitherto limited to letter-writing and visiting hours.
The BBC's Charlie Brooker provides a very clear explanation of the deceptiveness and tomfoolery inherent in the process of reality TV editing.
To commemorate the event, in addition to We the People, Edward Norton's HBO documentary that brought a tear to Obama's eye (aww, remember when everybody loved him?), campaign manager David Plouffe has a new memoir out called The Audacity to Win.
Despite four decades of feverishly anti-establishment rocking by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, fans are showing up at concerts and booing the rock veterans for performing anti-war tunes. They've even been mraching out en masse in protest against songs like "Ohio" and "Military Madness." "The forthcoming documentary…
Finally a clip from that Siberia documentary in which pretty much every newspaper scribe in NYC waxes nostalgic about the dirty little basement bar that killed them. Special guest star, one former Page Sixer who seriously should never appear on camera, ever.
The internet which is what you are reading this sentence on is often heralded as a vast network of information. In fact, not only is it heralded as that but it is that! But does information make anyone smarter? The New York Times, in reviewing a new documentary by the stellar and usually deeply depressing program …
