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All but the wank

Is Deep Throat sexier than the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate?
The image of Marlon Brando demanding that Maria Schneider stick two fingers up his ass, now seems the reductio ad absurdum of improvised acting.

By: JAMES PARKER | July 24, 2007

Police profile

They never were your average punks
One of these days, in a British crime movie, there will appear a gangland boss with a fetish for the Police.

By: JAMES PARKER | July 27, 2007

The un-metal lightness of being

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that a Swedish man is to receive sickness benefits for his addiction to heavy-metal music

By: JAMES PARKER | July 18, 2007

You say you want a revolution?

The Redcoat diaries, or visiting the Port-o-Potty in a tricornered hat
“Don’t you worry, boy. We’ll have your ass bleeding by the end of the day.”

By: JAMES PARKER | July 20, 2007

All eyes on me

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning of the recent stipulation, by the pop artist Madonna, that any journalist wishing to complete an interview with her must maintain eye contact at all times.

By: JAMES PARKER | July 11, 2007

Devilution

Glenn Danzig reveals his Lost Tracks
There’s an interesting moment in the new memoir by former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, when the author finds himself on tour with Danzig and Marilyn Manson.

By: JAMES PARKER | July 09, 2007

Greatest reality hits

The 10 best moments of the past nine months or so
To be read while listening to Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” or Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were The Days, My Friend."

By: JAMES PARKER | July 03, 2007

Mystic rivers

When G.I. Gurdjieff came to Boston
Was Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff a charlatan?

By: JAMES PARKER | July 03, 2007

iPhone home

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon the Multimedia and Internet-enabled Mobile Phone Newly Produced by the Apple Corporation

By: JAMES PARKER | July 06, 2007

Morrissey interrupts

Morrissey, Bank of America Pavilion, June 26, 2007
Morrissey was playing his first Boston show in three years, and erotic revelation was at hand.

By: JAMES PARKER | July 02, 2007

Weird science

Could be verse: poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Lines in Anticipation of the Final Installment of the Harry Potter Series, After Reading About the “Fringe Research” Being Conducted by the Pentagon.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 27, 2007

Lean to the left . . .

Total Bull star Western Wishes, plus Ultimate Fighter 5 , Fight Girls , and Last Comic Standing
Western Wishes — what an animal.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 27, 2007

Flushed away

Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Lines Upon Hearing of the Systematic Theft by Persons Unknown of Certain Toilet Parts From Fast-Food Restaurants in the Town of Methuen

By: JAMES PARKER | June 20, 2007

Keeping It Real

Sticking to the facts in a post-9/111 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker
We’ll get used to it, I suppose, this new category of moviegoing distress. Sooner or later, we get used to everything.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 20, 2007

Paul’s got Kate?

Maybe not, but Simon Cowell goes up in flames
Paul Potts! Paul Potts! And again — Paul Potts!

By: JAMES PARKER | June 19, 2007

Cork it, Corgan

Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Lines Upon Hearing the Smashing Pumpkins’ Single “Tarantula,” Their First New Material Since 2000 James Parker, "Cork it, Corgan" (mp3)

By: JAMES PARKER | June 14, 2007

Viva Las Vegas!

Sin, sun, and survival, plus lesbian surfers
Last week in reality world, it was Vegas, Vegas, Vegas.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 12, 2007

Lucky leader

A worthy life of Kingsley Amis
Eight hundred pages long, with another 200 pages of notes, The Life of Kingsley Amis is stunningly comprehensive.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 12, 2007

Heaven and hell

Paul toodles off to Starbucks while Ozzy goes to war
Feel, feel for Sir Paul McCartney.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 12, 2007

Holy War!

A new army of atheists is taking no prisoners in its battle with God and his self-appointed faith dealers
There’s no doubt about it: right now, God is on the side of the atheists.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 06, 2007

Waxin' Anglo Saxon

Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines

By: JAMES PARKER | June 06, 2007

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