Name: Stephen Silver
Weblog: stevesilver.net
Articles: 53
First Published: Monday, August 12, 2002
Last Published: Monday, February 28, 2005
Currently listing articles 53-1:
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2005 Oscar Diary— Thoughts on the 77th Annual Academy Awards
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"Harvey Sucks: Miramax, Sundance, and Why Harvey Sucks"— ...
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The 2004 Oscar Diary— Why no Affleck this year?
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Godwin's Law is Under Attack!— Bush = Hitler? A Fisking
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Top Ten Albums of 2003— ...
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The Top Ten Films of 2003— ...
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The 30 Most Shameful Events of 2003— In no particular order:
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Avenging 'Angels'— HBO's adaptation of "Angels in America" is perfect- almost.
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The 2003 Grammy Nominations— So much for that whole "rock revival"
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Frankenbook— Is Al Franken lying about the lying liars?
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Regime Change— Can a new producer and a new president save "The West Wing"?
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Pete Rose: A Fisking— Has the non-Hall-of-Famer really been "persecuted"?
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Stop the Police State!— A police state with no visible police
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Is "Project Greenlight" Rigged?— Entertainment Weekly and others say the fix is in
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When The Lights Go Down in the City— Notes on the Blackout of '03
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O'Reilly- Franken: A Fisking— The most ridiculous lawsuit of the day
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Pete Rose: The Pseudo-event— ...
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Moneyball by Michael Lewis— What the neo-conservatives of the Bush Adminstration are to foreign policy, the sabermetric movement is to major league baseball
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Real World 13: The Beginning— Of Cyclones, Commodores, and those who munch butts...
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Books About Bias— Eric Alterman vs. Bernard Goldberg
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The Myth of the "Quarterlife Crisis"— Why, Georgia, John Mayer was wrong
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Dan Israel and the Cultivators— "Love Ain't a Cliche"
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The Fall of Peter Arnett— And other media news from the homefront
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Notes on the Oscars— Musings on the 75th Annual Academy Awards
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Notes on the War— Thoughts on the first week of Operation Iraqi Freedom
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The 'Rush to War' that SHOULD have been— As the Bush Administration's "headlong rush to war" enters its 14th month, it's about time we pondered...
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The Jail Special— After six years and many a salad tossed, "Oz" goes off the air with a near-brilliant finale
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The Ephedra Panic— Why the push to ban the nutritional supplement is shortsighted and misguided
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My Kind of Razzmatazz— A review of "Chicago"
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The Ventura Venture— Four reasons why Jesse Ventura's MSNBC show will be a hit, and four reasons why it won't
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There's a New Jew— The coming of the "Kosher Scoop Jacksons"
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Hitler Chic— The latest dead-celebrity comeback
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"The Last Commissioner" by Fay Vincent— Not What It Should Have Been
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SUPER BOWL SHUFFLE— The Who, What, and Why of Who's Going to the Super Bowl
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Tuna Envy— All it took for Bill Parcells to return to coaching was for New York and New England to finally get over him
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The 25 Most Shameful Events of 2002— In no particular order
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And the Author Is...— Revealed at Last: The Author of The New Republic's Anonymous Blog, "&c."
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The Whack Mentality— All kinds of observers accuse "The Sopranos" of losing its luster - but can they come up with a better reason than "not enough murders?"
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Sex and the Saudis— A Christian conservative pundit finds common cause with militant Islamic subjugation of women
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The Best Albums: 1978-2002— My favorite album from each year of my life
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OK GO (self-titled)— "Mediocre people do exceptional things all the time"
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Election 2002: A Postmortem— After weeks of pronouncments that America is caught a 50/50 political tie that likely won't be broken anytime soon, the Republicans pulled way ahead early
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Me and "Jackass"— Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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Sex and College— Lamentations from a graduate of a non-party school.
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Alabama Politics— "Sweet Home Alabama” may seem like a light-hearted romantic comedy, but it’s as subconsciously political as any movie this year.
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Baseball '02: The Good Guys Win— It's October, the Twins are still alive, and the Yankees are not. Except for all that terrorism stuff, all really is right with the world.
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"The West Wing" Heads South— If the election of George W. Bush is what crippled the show, it was the attacks of September 11 that rendered it next to irrelevant.
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Weezer, the Muppets, and Inter-species Sexuality— I'd like to think that even after Jim Henson's death we can still count on the Muppets to maintain their innocence, and not go off
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Voice Against America— Unless you're an ardent leftist, it'll be hard to read this issue of the Voice without wanting to tear it in half.
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Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights— While, once again, the "New Rock" bands may not have so much in common with one another, but one thing they do share is that
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Problems "In the Bedroom"— I was surprised that a film as otherwise exceptional as Todd Field’s “In the Bedroom” could have at its heart such a condescending attitude towards
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The Vines: Highly Evolved— If The White Stripes and The Strokes are Pearl Jam and Nirvana and The Hives are Soundgarden, then The Vines are on par with Bush,
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Ben Kweller: Sha Sha— ...

