Cher should stick to what she knows best
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Her memoir suggests that the icon doesn’t know what makes her compelling
Mitchell Jackson
Mitchell Jackson is a writer based in Florida.
Friday
Wednesday
A history of the LGBTQ+ aspects of the Boy Scout movement
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Mike De Socio’s Morally Straight details how forty years of gay activism diversified the group for the better
Tuesday
I was raised by dog breeders. Has the ASPCA got them all wrong?
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‘How you care for a Chinese hairless is going to be different than a Husky’
Sunday
Who’s afraid of Judith Butler?
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The gender theorist’s first mainstream publication is unconvincing
Thursday
The loss of Joss Whedon
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Even post-cancellation, we still live in the pop culture universe the screenwriter created
Tuesday
Does Joan Crawford deserve her bad reputation?
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It’s unlikely a Crawford could happen in today’s Hollywood
Wednesday
The boring moralism of the new Mean Girls musical
The original Mean Girls premiered 20 years ago this spring, but it might as well have come out yesterday. The Middle East is, again, still, at war with the West. Britney Spears looks out from every tabloid. After years of cancel culture, being controversial is great again. And, just as in 2004, Mean Girls is everywhere. Walmart’s Christmas ad
Monday
Sean Young has lessons to share
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She was canceled before cancel culture existed
Tuesday
Britney Spears’s much-anticipated memoir is a desperate cry for help
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Once again, America owes the singer an apology — just not for the reasons she suspects
Friday
John Waters, the pope of cliché
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Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
Friday
The roots of J.K. Rowling’s contrarianism
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How did the woman who taught a generation to stand up to the Ministry of Magic betray liberal orthodoxy?
Sunday
The history of a Britney Spears masterpiece
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Blackout laid the foundation for the EDM revolution, Lady Gaga’s self-referential debut album and the rest of the past fifteen years of pop
Sunday
How Madonna turned pop culture Catholic
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On the fortieth anniversary of her debut album, Madonna remains a good Catholic girl at heart
Thursday
The last days of Splash Mountain
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A Disneyland classic bows out
Wednesday
The forgotten art of Hollywood backdrops
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The Boca Raton Museum succeeds where the big beasts in LA and New York have failed
Saturday
There’s more to Pamela Anderson than Playboy and sex tapes
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Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism
Monday
Mary Blair, doyenne of Disneyland
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To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life
Wednesday
Playing God with Paramore
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What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
Tuesday
The Whitney Houston biopic is a big, gay masterpiece
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When Hollywood gets representation right
