Democrats Warm To 'Fahrenheit 911'- June 17, 2004 After more than a week of round-the-clock Reaganolotry, New York was so ready for the rollout of Michael Moore's Bush-bashing movie. I mean really, really ready. There was such demand to get into a small screening at the Beekman Theatre on Monday night that executive producer and host Harvey Weinstein moved the celebrity crowd to the thousand-seat Ziegfeld Theatre. This was a canny PR move. There was only a one-week frenzy window between Gippermania and the pending Clinton memoir, and Weinstein.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/17/AR2005033112537.html?nav=r... Dancing Into Hearts and History- June 10, 2004 One of Ronald Reagan's unsung achievements is that he saved Vanity Fair. By March 1985, I had been editor in chief for a year, but the glossy monthly that had been launched in a blaze of hype a year before and then belly-flopped under its first two editors was still in the throes of a severe identity crisis. We needed something big and we needed it fast, since Conde Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse had just made it plain that we had only six more months to fool around before he kissed this...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/10/AR2005033112446.html?nav=r... For Baby Boomers, Greatest Moments Disappeared in a New York Minute- June 3, 2004 The pileup of World War II ceremonies is causing an outbreak of Greatest Generation envy among the media baby boomers who are covering them. In her Sunday column in the New York Times, Maureen Dowd spoke wistfully of the "moral clarity" of World War II. In the Hamptons on Memorial Day weekend, most of the pundit class spent evenings arguing about exit strategies in Iraq and then beating a nostalgic retreat to watch "The Longest Day," "Patton" and "Saving Private Ryan."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/03/AR2005033112220.html?nav=r... |