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I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!


Scott Wolf


#guess #hit #i #life #my life

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.


James Wolcott


#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.


James Wolcott


#been #boon #classic #detail #dvd

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.


James Wolcott


#american people #beltway #bill #bill clinton #clinton

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.


James Wolcott


#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.


James Wolcott


#conned #government #lies #media #ourselves

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.


Tom Wolfe


#been #conservative #liberal #mugged #who

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.


James Wolcott


#back #broken #celebrity #down #ecosystem

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.


James Wolcott


#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.


James Wolcott


#average #average american #conservatives #diner #faith






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