My friend found out what happens when you walk around New York City during a heatwave ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Beyond the Beret
I was obsessed with Patty Hearst as a young boy in the suburbs of Detroit -- it all seemed so glamorous, what with the publishing fortune! the kidnapping! the beret! -- and have always taken her at her word that she was brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army and acted accordingtly. (I remember using my babysitting money to buy her memoir, "Every Secret Things," when I was about 13 and reading in in two days!) But Jeffrey Toobin's new book, "American Heiress," sheds new light on the case that symbolized the turbulent '70s better than any other and has me looking at it in a whole new way -- that Hearst might actually have just been an attention-starved girl who used the media as her personal Instagram account. (Many suspected that, but he offers some actual proof.) Titillating as the premise is, though, I probably won't be buying the book seeing as Janet Maslin's review in The Times is so fascinatingly thorough I don't need to. Read HERE.
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Song of the Day: 'The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)' by Juice Newton
The Jersey native had a string of hits between '81 and '82 ... and then they stopped.
Page 1 Roundup (07/28)
We Wish: I love that they think Obama 3.0 is an insult! Read HERE.
Jail Bait: Annoys me that Dems can't get the "Lock Him Up!" chant going, and in this case it's actually warranted. Read HERE.
Championing Optimism, Obama Hails Clinton as His Political Heir / Read HERE.
Obama Rallies Democrats Behind Hillary Clinton at Convention / Read HERE.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
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