12/22/68 — Forty Years Ago Today

From RN: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s Marble Collegiate Church in New York had played such an important and happy part in our family’s life since we moved to New York that Julie felt very deeply about being married there and about having all reporters and...

POTUSE’s Latest Brilliant Choice

The POTUSE has named Elizabeth Alexander as the Poet Laureate of his Inauguration.  She will join the select company of poets —Robert Frost (JFK), Maya Angelou (Clinton ’93), and Miller Williams (Clinton ’97)— who have read the poems they wrote...

Refresher Course

In last week’s  New Yorker, deputy “Talk of the Town” editor Lauren Collins set up a story about Ivy Leaguers in the Obama administration —“Team of Brainiacs”— by stirring up some trouble over one of the recently released...

F/N: The Perfect Flick For Nixmas

Last week the marketing offensive for F/N finally embraced The Colbert Report.  Host Steven Colbert had originally thought the movie was about RN teaming up with Jack Frost to save Christmas. He was disabused of this notion by his guest Kevin Bacon, who plays...