In your unexpected Thursday media column: Michael Moore's reputation as the foremost authority on newspapers is challenged, the Sun-Times' unions play a dangerous game, Jenna Bush does a TV thing, and Alex Balk is persecuted without end.
The Summer of Death (Michael Jackson, John Hughes, Farah Fawcett) has triggered uncontrolled 1980s cultural recycling: ABC is developing an hour-long dramedy based on St. Elmo's Fire. Topher Grace is attached. Nostalgia will be the death of us all. [Reuters]
Would the Summer of Death truly be complete without a giant shark washing up on the shores of Long Island, New York? We think not!
With the stink of celebrity deaths and recession wafting around us, we need a restorative figure of youth. A symbol of American virility. A man who, despite his antiquated views of women and Jews, can make America feel giddy again.
