Monthly Archives: June 2003

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

Posted on June 30, 2003 by Felix

Felix’s First Rule of Movies states that "films are always better on their opening weekend". Well, if that’s true, then maybe there’s a case for adding Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle to the Ten Worst Films of All Time list. Because … Continue reading →

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Liberal journalism and the New York Times

Posted on June 26, 2003 by Felix

On Sunday, the New York Times’s dry-as-dust "Week in Review" section fronted a big article by David Rosenbaum headlined "Bush May Have Exaggerated, but Did He Lie?". The story looked at false statements by George W Bush, such as "my … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter and the cover artists

Posted on June 21, 2003 by Felix

After posting a query on Memefirst this morning about the different editions of the Harry Potter books, I decided to create a little matrix of them all, to see how they compared. Here it is; for the sake of saving … Continue reading →

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The economic policy of John Edwards

Posted on June 20, 2003 by Felix

Eagle-eyed William Saletan, at Slate, posted a very useful heads-up today about a key speech which Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards gave on Tuesday at Georgetown University. Saletan gives the Cliff’s Notes version, full of paradox and "audacity", and says … Continue reading →

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Paying friends

Posted on June 19, 2003 by Felix

Back in my protoblogging days, in March 2000, I posted an item on the old, low-tech felixsalmon.com disagreeing with a certain piece of advice given by Slate’s agony aunt, Dear Prudence. I don’t know what it is about Prudence which … Continue reading →

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Cryptic crosswords

Posted on June 14, 2003 by Felix

Many months ago, my grandmother told me that I should read a short book she’d just finished. We were on the telephone at the time, and it took a while for me to get the title straight: Pretty girl in … Continue reading →

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Simultaneous translation at BAM

Posted on June 10, 2003 by Felix

I live with one of those arty-filmy types, who idolises Ingmar Bergman, and who forced me to get tickets to Ghosts when we were filling out our BAM subscription last year. Ghosts is a relatively minor Ibsen play which has … Continue reading →

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Malevich at the Guggenheim

Posted on June 4, 2003 by Felix

Kasimir Malevich has long been one of my favourite artists, ever since I saw one of his great white-on-white paintings at Annely Juda as a teenager. There’s a handful of paintings which seared themselves into my consciousness the minute I … Continue reading →

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