Jocelyn Pook’s Oppenheimer mixes Robert Oppenheimer invoking the Bhagavad Gita with a recording of the liturgy of the Yemenite Jews and the text of the Catholic requiem mass, all underpinned with violin, viola and and keyboards. The seven minute long Oppenheimer is one of the sections in Flood; th...

aura Linney won the award for leading actress in a mini-series for HBO's "John Adams," so she is not part of the Bagger's world. But as he watched her effortlessly riff through her thanks personal and professional, convey her gratitude to her peers with sincerity and recognize her colleagues with ea...

Credit Where It’s Due: The Golden Globes are not (entirely) Irrelevant It is often very easy to discredit the Golden Globes for being one thing or another, or for not being one thing or another. It is not that these are all false: the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are not cinematic or te...

Open Bar. Slavish appreciation of celebrity and the cult therein. The Golden Globes are not about who wins, really, but that doesn’t mean that I would ever miss an opportunity to complain about it. Watch as I discuss the television awards with a false sense of authority, write about the movie ...

I hereby accept Steve Gillmor’s challenge to write even more crap in 2009 in the name of disrupting Techmeme (or in my case, Memeorandum) to prove that I have absolutely no authority other than that which others think I have. Here is my first contribution. Tonight’s PBS broadcast of John...

Image via Wikipedia I’ve heard people say, “If you want to know about a company, all you need to do is look at the leader� and it certainly is true that companies exhibit the traits of their leaders. But it’s also true that companies exhibit the traits of their founders. In fact, I’d argue...

2009 Golden Globe Awards: TV Nominations December 11th, 2008 Predicting the Golden Globe awards is, quite literally, a devil’s bargain. While the Movies side is its own monster, the Television nominees are perhaps one of the most difficult to predict in all of awards-dom. Yes, the Emmy Awatds ...

I'd heard that the John Adams miniseries from HBO was pretty good. Heck, it won an Emmy after all. But goodness, I didn't expect it to be this degree of excellent. Laura Linney steals almost every scene she's in as John's wife, Abigail Adams. She is excellent. Paul Giamatti is great as John Adams, a...

It is often said that American government is based on Christian principles, but an examination of the Constitution itself shows that it clearly is not....

The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations are in and we’ve got the entire list for you below. Once again, I’ll proclaim my disappointment that Battlestar Galactica never makes it to Drama Series, but whatever. It’s nice to see Damages , Lost and Dexter in there. I just recen...