Toward the end of the film Frost/Nixon, based on the Peter Morgan play of the same name, Frank Langella's Richard Nixon wonders whether his legacy will prevent young people from aspiring to a life in politics. "They'll think it's all just corrupt," he laments. "I always felt that line...

By David Carr, Columnist, The New York Times In March 2007, Circuit City came up with a plan to confront softening sales and competition from online and offline retailers: fire the most talented, experienced employees. Of course, those workers were the retail chain’s single most important poin...

"It is fascinating to me that any church that experiences a glimpse of revival will often become aware of the presence of angels. Where the glory of God is manifest and where Jesus is truly worshipped - angels will gather. Angels are, in essence, the protectors of God's glory". David Carr - "The Fiv...

A memoir worth reading? Imagine that! New York Times media reporter David Carr's Night of the Gun comes out next month, and it's been treated to a nice nine-page excerpt in today's NYT Magazine. After detailing how he became a crack addict and how his dealer/girlfriend prematurely gave birth to his ...

  These celebrities were born on July 19: Michelle Heaton is 28. Jared Padalecki is 26. Clea Lewis is 44. Vikki Carr is 67. Vinessa Shaw is 32. Campbell Scott is 47....

How does David Carr pull this off? The Times media critic writes in his forthcoming memoir of drug addiction that he kidnapped his children, smacked around his girlfriends and left two babies in a near-freezing car on the street for hours while he got high. This in addition to dealing drugs and fath...

The highs dispensed of, we can focus on the real Michigan specialty: lows. This is an attempt to document the absolute worst players inflicted upon Michigan fans during Lloyd Carr's tenure as head coach. This is sort of a mean thing to do, since even the worst Michigan players are amongst the top 1%...

I'm out for the fourth tomorrow. See you Monday. I get an email that starts like this about every week: Brian, So I'm searching for reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming football season. I got the first one ten seconds after Manningham, Mallett, and Arrington all lit out for the NFL or Arkansa...

For unclear reasons, the Times felt compelled to hand a huge chunk of its Sunday Business section over to a profile of Bonnie Fuller—the woman most responsible for creating our nation's soul-destroying cast of powerful celebrity magazines—who was recently axed from her multimillion-dolla...

Sometime in the late 80's -a low point in the history of WUTK-FM. Bite my ass John Carr. And what the hell is that color scheme? Green, red and yellow?...