articles published on June 9, 2003 Archive

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"Pencil Neck Geek" - Freddie Blassie's immortal satiric machismo
I've come to think of professional wrestling as largely a parody or satire of cheap machismo, self-consciously so to a significant extent. "Pencil Neck Geek" pretty well makes the point in just a few minutes, and in a considerably more artistically interesting manner.

in Music — by Al Barger — on Jun 09, 2003
All Hail The Thief
"OK Computer" was the warning sign of things to come... "All Hail The Thief" arrives to tell us "I told you so."

in Music — by Keith Hanlon — on Jun 09, 2003
Jackie Wilson's birthday
Born this day, June 9, 1934, Jackie Wilson would be 69 today. He was the dancingest, singingest, soulfelest guy around.

in Music — by Al Barger — on Jun 09, 2003
"Can't You See, I'm Sprayin' My Hair!"
Thoughts on Hairspray's big Tony sweep. . .

in Music — by Bill Sherman — on Jun 09, 2003
Lydon pulls no punches

in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jun 09, 2003
Hip-Hop a foreign language?

in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jun 09, 2003
Selling out or Selling Up?
Have the forces of marketing worked their way into your favorite rapper's tunes?

in Music — by Seth Werkheiser — on Jun 09, 2003
Cole Porter's birthday
Cole Porter was our #1 Hoosier hero for the Broadway era, an urbane and sophisticated songwriting master.

in Music — by Al Barger — on Jun 09, 2003

The Insider

in Video — by Matt Moore — on Jun 09, 2003
The WIRE : Best show on Television!

in Video — by Craig Pfeifer — on Jun 09, 2003
Johnny Depp turns 40
Depp really hasn't gotten quite the proper credit for the high quality of his work. He does alright, so I ain't crying for him, but he's one of the best actors of his generation.

in Video — by Al Barger — on Jun 09, 2003
Huh, huh- you said "rod"
Most significant to us cool people, birthday boy George Axelrod wrote the screenplay for The Manchurian Candidate.

in Video — by Al Barger — on Jun 09, 2003

What NY Times employees are reading
Unfortunately, I currently do not have the wit nor the time to create a fake list of what they're reading and buying, however amusing that might be. But Amazon has the list of what books employees at the New York Times company are really buying. No. 5 is the keeper.

in Books — by Temple Stark — on Jun 09, 2003
Set This House in Order
Matt Ruff's latest reads like he set out to go Motherless Brooklyn one better. Not only did he pick a more controversial and challenging mental disorder to write about, he wrote two such characters.

in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Jun 09, 2003
Hill and Bill
I don't understand why some people refuse to believe that Hillary and Bill Clinton may actually have a marriage, not an "arrangement."

in Books — by Brian Flemming — on Jun 09, 2003
Book Review: I Was A Teenage Dominatrix by Shawna Kenney
Pete Petrisko gets off on Shawna Kenney's sex work memoir, I Was A Teenage Dominatrix.

Review in Books — by Pete Petrisko — on Jun 09, 2003

Another Reporter Fired for Plagiarism

in Culture — by Temple Stark — on Jun 09, 2003
Secretariat anniversary
Thirty years ago today, June 9, 1973, Secretariat, the "horse of the century" won the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown.

in Culture — by Al Barger — on Jun 09, 2003
The Nose Knows

in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Jun 09, 2003
The Japanese Mountain Diet
How I lost 30 pounds in 3 months.

in Culture — by Frank Giovinazzi — on Jun 09, 2003
Easy as Tic-tac-toe
Everyone wants to balance their life, but most don't make the effort to start from ground zero -- every day is either a day of success or a day of failure.

in Culture — by Frank Giovinazzi — on Jun 09, 2003