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Sugar Water: Dog Days
I realized the other day that it’s been a couple months since I updated you on my personal life. No one’s asked for an update, of course, but I figured the fan letter that
Read More »Sugar Water: Black and/or White
Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently
Read More »Sugar Water: “24” and the Enhanced Techniques of Viewer Torture
In February 2007 The New Yorker published “Whatever It Takes,” an article by Jane Mayer about the Fox series 24, and how the politically conservative views of the show’s creators, Joel Surnow and Robert
Read More »Sugar Water: Running Scared From Progress
I didn’t accomplish much in April. Now it’s May. Oh yeah, I did ask my girlfriend, Aimiee, to marry me, as threatened in my last Sugar Water column. And the answer was no, but
Read More »Sugar Water: Love and Death
Actor Bruce Willis turned 54 on March 19, the same day famous friend David Letterman married Regina Lasko, his girlfriend of 23 years. Two days later Willis married Emma Heming, a former Victoria’s Secret
Read More »Sugar Water: Jesus $aves
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently offered its one cent to married couples struggling through the current recession. (It used to offer two, of course, but everybody’s cutting back these days.) On its
Read More »Sugar Water: “Stay Strong”
Laid Off But Not Lying Down The Daily Planet‘s veteran crime reporter discovers a new scene. In 1978, one week before Christmas, Clark Kent was hired as the Daily Planet‘s newest reporter on the
Read More »Sugar Water: Break On Through (To Another Side of Acting)
“A liar lies and a thief steals from you, but a hustler gives you something that you don’t mind parting with your money for. You’re entertained by the meal or the sex or the
Read More »Sugar Water: The Year in Science (Last Year, Not This Year)
The Associated Press reported last Tuesday that the bicycles of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were stolen from inside the Carter Center in Atlanta earlier this month. President Carter responded
Read More »Sugar Water: Print, Profits, and “The Paper”
On November 5, the morning after Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America, Oprah Winfrey appeared on her talk show with an American flag in one hand
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