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Stephen Whitty
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Film critic, programmer, lecturer, dog-rescuer. Bylines in Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, NY Daily News, Cosmopolitan and 30 years of newspapers. Author, "The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia."
30-odd years ago, when he was SPY magazine's favorite short-fingered vulgarian, they claimed he was a huge amphetamine user. Noel Casler, who worked closely with the family on "The Apprentice," insists that Trump has snorted Adderall for years. Oddly, the famously litigious Trump never sued either.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Hi friend, you don't look as if you've had smallpox yet. Have a blanket!"
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Sadly, figuring out why a rabid, longtime believer in “the Church can do no wrong” would come to the defense of child rapists is not much of a puzzler.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reminds me of the story of the early 20th-century British official who shut down the push to open an espionage service with the announcement that "Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail." Harrumph.
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Weird time for a guy who's covered in fascist tattoos to be worried about Nordic pagans.
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Exactly. Bond's original backstory was that he was born in the '20s, and got his inaugural assignment during WWII. That would make him 30-ish at the time of Fleming's first novel. And after 70 years or so, he's now -- 40-ish?
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Many years ago, Fleming's biographer, John Pearson, wrote a novel, "James Bond: The Authorized Biography." Its entertaining (and very meta) conceit was that there WAS a real James Bond; the novels and films were part of a huge British disinformation campaign to make the USSR think there wasn't.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Still amazed that adding such a fiery populist to the ticket didn't help Hillary in the election.
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM