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Brilliant Zingers and Vodka Stingers

A.D. Amorosi — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000

During the second episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans — producer Ryan Murphy’s streaming series based on author Truman Capote’s lived-in-and-laughed-over 1960s among Manhattan’s “ladies who lunch” — titular actor Tom Hollander truly has his way with spite. Leaning with persnickety dread into a line that all but explains the raison d’etre of biting […]

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TV Departed

Melinda Lewis — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:30:56 +0000

Book-ended by two heavy-hitting true crime series, The Jinx and Making a Murderer, 2015 (and ’16) saw a lot of journalists grappling with the draw of these programs and true crime as a genre. These documentaries were cinematic, following those accused of crimes but with hazy details that either led to them being imprisoned possibly […]

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I’ve Got a Secret

Jessa Crispin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:12:43 +0000

These are things I know about people I have never met: Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng. 360 pages. University of Chicago Press. $22.50. I know a former writer for Jezebel accidentally left a tampon in for several days, and I know what the discharge looked like when she finally got it out. I know […]

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