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Why "The King's Speech' worked for me
Commoners, kings and the moment of truth
Anne Fabbri argues that The King's Speech glorifies boring and useless hereditary aristocrats who don't really matter. Oh, but they did, at a critical moment. And it's the sort of moment that could have happened to any of us, commoner or king.
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The 'Inquirer' contemplates Rendell's TV tantrum
Calling all simpletons, or: The Inquirer discovers Rendell's temper
What would old-timers who remember Mayor Dick Dilworth— both of us— make of the Inquirer's coverage of Ed Rendell's TV temper tantrum? And who at the Inquirer remembers the greatest moment in Philadelphia sports history?
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Broad Street Review 5th Birthday Party
The arrival of 2011 marks the fifth birthday of Broad Street Review. So it's high time we celebrated. Come to think of it, after five years of virtual relationships, it's high time BSR's readers, writers and editors finally met each other in the flesh.
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WikiLeaks, secrets and a distant memory
WikiLeaks and the end of privacy: A lesson from a small town in Indiana
To Hilary Clinton, the recent WikiLeaks release of confidential diplomatic cables constituted “an attack on the international community.” But if, like me, you've ever practiced journalism or government in a small town, you're likely to shrug and ask, “What else is new?”
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Penn Museum's '40 Winks With the Sphinx'
Let's spend the night together… with a mummy
Just when you thought museums had lost their mojo, marketing geniuses have come up with an inspired idea: a real-life “Night at the Museum.” For a six-year-old to have the run of a huge and famous museum for hours on end is a truly unique and memorable experience, even if you don't get much sleep.
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Criticism: Compliment or insult?
When critics can't take criticism
The free-lance drama critic Wendy Rosenfield recently took me to task for publicly excoriating one of my own contributors. She seems to see criticism as an insult. I see it as a compliment.
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Directors vs. critics vs. the audience
When Jesse met Jimmy, or: Would Dick Cheney love these guys?
The theater director Jesse Cline and his apparent antagonist, BSR contributor Jim Rutter, are two peas in a pod: Both work in communications but seemingly want to prevent other people from communicating.
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How anger made me a star
It worked for Patti LuPone, and me too
In my haste to condemn anger in a previous column, I neglected to examine the critical role that anger has played in advancing my own career. Come to think of it, I owe my most significant achievement to anger, and only to anger.
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The anger trap
My anger and me
Robert Zaller says Americans have good reason to be angry. If I could just find my pitchfork”¦.
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The Druid case against the Ground Zero mosque
Are you truly, deeply, utterly offended by the Ground Zero mosque?
To me, as an observant Druid, all the arguments against the “Ground Zero mosque” have really hit home. How do you think my people feel whenever we must pass that humongous Catholic cathedral on Ben Franklin Parkway? And why now, when memories of the Spanish Inquisition are so raw?
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