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February 01, 2010 12:14 PM EST --
[I wrote and posted this reflection on Salinger back in August on my blog at Amazon. Except for the news that was current at that time, the rest of this piece holds true for me, as, I'm sure, it holds . . .
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January 04, 2010 01:21 PM EST --
Tough guy – eh?
Back in my neighborhood a guy like this, like Charlie Sheen, would have some explaining to do. We’d escort him out back into an alley to show us how tough . . .
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November 19, 2009 11:12 PM EST --
By John W. Cassell
My copy of Jack Engelhard's SLOT ATTENDANT:A NOVEL ABOUT A NOVELIST came this afternoon. As I was reading another truly engrossing novel at the time and NEVER read more . . .
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November 14, 2009 11:07 PM EST --
By Jack Engelhard
I have never read a book this awful – ever!
Philip Roth’s latest novel, “The Humbling,” is a about an aging actor who finds that he’s . . .
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November 09, 2009 03:26 PM EST --
The New York Times is still going at it; finding “stress” as the motivation that prompted that man to go on a killing spree against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood.
Baloney. . . .
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October 15, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
The Obama administration has found the enemy and it is Fox News. The New York Times and CNN got it straight from the lips of White House communications director Anita Dunn who revealed that, . . .
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August 06, 2009 11:36 AM EDT --
Hello, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Our “cash for clunkers” has proven to be so successful that we’ve decided to extend the program for . . .
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August 05, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
The White House is asking us to inform on people who disrespect the current bill on health care, a bill which nobody has read in full – but never mind. According to reports in the news media, Americans . . .
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July 27, 2009 01:43 PM EDT --
I caught your show on Fox the other day, the one where you removed New Jersey from the map and I guess I was supposed to laugh but I didn’t. This is where I live and it’s as fine a place as . . .
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July 26, 2009 02:17 PM EDT --
Those who have read the book or seen the movie “Indecent Proposal” know what it’s about – what would you do for a million dollars? At the time that I wrote and published . . .
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July 19, 2009 02:30 PM EDT --
Walter Cronkite’s TV presence was so powerful that when he made some off-hand remark critical of our war in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson knew that losing the support of Cronkite was the same as losing . . .
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July 17, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
Those of us who tuned in for a slugfest were disappointed and went back to cutting the lawn. This was no Ali versus Frazier. There were no thrills. Even Fox News abruptly turned off, literally, and returned . . .
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July 12, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
The upstairs literary crowd, Eustace Tilley types, are already sharpening their pencils for Dan Brown's next book, "The Lost Symbol," even though it won't be birthed until September. I'm not . . .
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July 03, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska pretty much taking the cue from Richard Nixon that we won't have her to kick around anymore. So she's out, though we don't know where she's going. My guess? . . .
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July 03, 2009 12:16 PM EDT --
I've never been a fan of Helen Thomas (her rants against Israel, for starters) but this time she's got me on her side. Good for her! While the rest of her colleagues in the press keep fawning over the . . .
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July 02, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
The news is never good, as I'm sure you've noticed, and I'm losing track of what's going on so far as health care and a thousand other items that are spinning out of the control. Don't know much . . .
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June 26, 2009 06:11 PM EDT --
Jonas Salk was never mourned like this - and he cured the world of polio.
No disrespect to Michael Jackson the pop star, pay him whatever tributes you wish, but I wonder how many other . . .
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June 21, 2009 08:38 PM EDT --
The trick is to get yourself a good publicist, a publicist, as I was once told, who would kill for you. Well, that's going too far, don't you think? I haven't had a publicist since that one time back . . .
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June 17, 2009 06:34 PM EDT --
This may come as a shock to readers who think I'm exceedingly smart or stupid, but listen, I do it my way, all on my own.
I have no staff to hand me material. Like other civilians, . . .
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June 11, 2009 11:08 PM EDT --
Top 10 Reasons to Snub David Letterman After the Palin Fiasco:
10: He's not funny.
9: His jokes are written by 20 frat boys who have an IQ of 180 - combined.
8. His audience . . .
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