NY Times, May 14, 2004
Vanity Fair Editor Got $100,000 for Suggesting a Movie
By DAVID CARR and SHARON WAXMAN
Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity Fair, received a $100,000
payment from Universal Studios in 2003 for suggesting years earlier that
the book "A Beautiful Mind'' be made into a film
> Unsafe On Any Ballot
> By Christopher Hitchens
the multiple hypocrisies and evasions of Mr. Hitchens, who once called
himself a socialist but eagerly enlisted in the "clash of civilizations"
on the side of the neo-cons with the likes of Tom Friedman, are by now
so twisted it&#
Scholars and Pretenders -- Timothy Brennan
Said and Hitchens
Note: This essay was composed in August and early September and
completed the day Edward Said died. It was not written in the spirit of
memorialization, therefore, but as a clarification of his intellectual
achievements – to set the
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:42:48 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq:
Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation? *
A debate on the U.S. occupation of Iraq with two renowned authors and
former friends: Tariq Ali, author of Bush in Babylon
The Southbeach Diet Online commercial in the middle of the article is more
interesting than what Chrissie Hitchens says.
Listen to this guy: " my own recent visit to Baghdad, Karbala, and Najaf, as
well as to Basra and then Kurdistan, I would say that I saw persuasive
evidence of the unlea
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089329/
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Michael Hoover wrote:
good on finkelstein for 'deconstructing' hitchens although i'm not sure
he's worth attention he's
received, friend from manchester (england, not new hampshire) told me ch
was america's (more precisely,
chris mathews') 'house socia
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/10/03 3:02 PM >>>
Norman Finkelstein wrote:
>A rite of passage for apostates
>peculiar to U.S. political culture is bashing Noam Chomsky.
Unfortunately for Hitchens, he wrote a spirited defense of Chomsky
for Grand Street in the mid-1980s. Hitch&#x
What I don't understand is why anyone gives a rat's ass about Hitchens.
Another opportunist...so what.
Joanna
Devine, James wrote:
it's a great article! However, it's a bit too individualistic for my taste, putting too much emphasis on Hitchens' personality. It's t
ject: Re: [PEN-L] Norman Finkelstein on Christopher Hitchens
> (brilliant!)
>
>
> One reason would be that "the left:" (?)--as perceived by "people" --
> includes so many Hitchens-like characters.
>
> Devine, James wrote:
>
> >... The left also lacks suffi
One reason would be that "the left:" (?)--as perceived by "people" --
includes so many Hitchens-like characters.
Devine, James wrote:
... The left also lacks sufficient gravitational power to keep people in our orbit.
E. Ahmet Tonak
Professor of Economics
Simon's Rock
it's a great article! However, it's a bit too individualistic for my taste, putting
too much emphasis on Hitchens' personality. It's true that it ignores aspects of that
personality that may be relevant (such as Hitchens' problem drinking), but it should
be mentioned
Norman Finkelstein wrote:
A rite of passage for apostates
peculiar to U.S. political culture is bashing Noam Chomsky.
Unfortunately for Hitchens, he wrote a spirited defense of Chomsky
for Grand Street in the mid-1980s. Hitch's webmaster/towelboy Peter
Kilander used to have a copy on his we
--- Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Counterpunch, September 10, 2003
>
> "Fraternally Yours, Chris":
> Hitchens as Model Apostate
> By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
A very nice job, better than the creep deserves. jks
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Do you Ya
Louis Proyect wrote:
> A rite of passage for apostates
> peculiar to U.S. political culture is bashing Noam Chomsky. It's the
> political equivalent of a bar mitzvah, a ritual signaling that one has
> "grown up"--i.e., grown out of one's "childish" past. It's hard to pick
> up an article or book by
Counterpunch, September 10, 2003
"Fraternally Yours, Chris":
Hitchens as Model Apostate
By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
Editors' note: Norman Finkelstein is writing a political memoir, which
will serve as the introduction to a new edition of his book, The Rise
and Fall of Palestine, to be p
Title: Hitchens
Richard M writes:
I'm sure you guys and gyns have discussed this already, but is
Christopher Hitchens on some kind of medication? He sounds not so much reactionary as to my ears as incoherent, like the people who used to wander up and down Telegraph A
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46460&group=webcast
I just came accross this on the indymedia site. Otherwise, I
don't waste my time with this guy but his note may be of interest
to some Americans.
Best,
Sabri
The other
reviewer has it dead right: the book is a faultlessly narcissistic exercise,
entirely about Hitchens and his petty self-construction as a 'contrarian.'
(The
Wobbly in me gets the shakes on hearing a horrible Oxbridge word like that.)
One senses that Orwell could yet inflict
REVIEW OF 1984 By Isaac Asimov
I've been writing a four-part article for Field Newspaper Syndicate at the
beginning of each year for several years now and in 1980, mindful of the
approach of the year 1984, FNS asked me to write a thorough critique of
George Orwell's novel 1984.
I was reluctant
On 24/12/2002 8:18 PM, "Chris Burford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most historians of the war in Spain believe that the "revolution" supported
by
> the POUM distracted from the war against Franco and his nazi backers.
Hitchens
> denies this, claiming biz
145 other reviews by Will
Podmore.
Hitchen's own web page, "The Hitchens Web", carries a link to
Powells.com for the book under the US title, Why Orwell Matters. Some of
these damn with fainter praise.
Review: "For a slender book, WHY ORWELL
MATTERS is oddly unfocused and hard to
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32016] A rapidly mutating Hitchens
Safire writes better.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Original Message-
> From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 0
(This is from a slate.com column titled "Machiavelli in Mesopotamia".
The homage to Machiavelli is probably the most self-aware words from the
drunken Dubya fan in over a year. If anybody can distinguish between the
Blimpish blather below and a typical William Safire column, then they
have shar
very interesting article; two points, both regarding my personal obsession
with Iraq:
>I have sat on an unexploded Iraqi chemical bomb in the Kurdish town of
>Halabja, which was ethnically cleansed by fire and poison,
This was no doubt very brave of Hitchens, but the Kurds in Halabj
>From the Mirror (UK)
WHERE IS THIS EVIL AXIS BUSH SPEAKS OF? CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS On the peril of
America's muddled, ignorant hawks
TWO four-letter words - "axis" and "evil" - have rightly become the symbolic
phrase for everything that has become risky and dub
Hitchens refers to Garzon in his recent article, contrasting him with
anti-war activists whom he confuses with Bin Laden supporters. But
Garzon's public writing indicates that he is actaully not at all
supportive of Hitchens/Bush's would be "war on terror"...
Steve
Rakesh, your reputation will not be helped by continuing this dialogue.
1. What goes on on other lists are irrelevant here.
2. What Hitchens says or does is irrelevant here.
3. Were need to avoid personal disputes here.
None of this had anything to do with anything going on on THIS list. I
Since my reputation is at stake, I'll have to risk being unsubbed:
>
> God, what a sad load of shit.
It's not a load of shit that you kicked me off your list for having criticized
hitchens' defense of kerrey.
I most certainly never "knew" that
> H
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
>last may i had a debate about hitchens' remarks on bob kerrey's war time
>activities. i criticized hitchens. a joanna sheldon and peter k rose to
>hitchens' defense. i referred to peter k as peter kitchens. he wrote
>me offlist
>to tel
Rakesh, I have asked you to stop. Please, or I will have to unsub you.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:23:54PM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> hitchens refers to "my website http/peterk" so i thought peterk was the name
> hitchens used for his website address. i just saw the excha
At 11:23 PM 10/24/01 -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Please seek counseling or heavy medication. You should, at least, be saved
from yourself. You don't even realize how you are embarrassing yourself. Do
you even care about your own reputation?
hitchens refers to "my website http/peterk" so i thought peterk was the name
hitchens used for his website address. i just saw the exchange between doug,
ian and kelley on lbo in which hitchens is cited. didn't realize that by
referring to "my website" hitche
My aplogies Michael, I see responding to this thread only carries on the
past soap operasI will stop responding...
Steve
Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
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Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
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Stephen E Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
> What is your problem anyway?
it's pretty simple: henwood kicked me off his list after i criticized the
hitchens' "kerry" comments downloaded by henwood himself. you were there. so
shouldn't
I can hardly follow that long pointless paragraph. You seem obsessed with
this Hitchens thing. I guess you think you're talking to a list filled
with c.h fansgo figure. And maybe you just might wanna wake up and
smell the coffee, Henwood's been more than sufficiently critica
Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Rakesh, I hope that you meant to send this note to me personally rather
> than to the list.
oh my goodness, was that to the list? i couldn't have meant to show in public
that there is anything shady and untrustworthy about a writer who has gone out
From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Rakesh, I hope that you meant to send this note to me personally
rather
> than to the list.
> --
A senior moment?
Ian
Rakesh, I hope that you meant to send this note to me personally rather
than to the list.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sorry michael. i thought that with the hitchens' line being defended here by
georgia and andrew h, people would be interested in peter k's having downloaded
without any criticism at all a safire column on kerrey's actions in vietnam.
can't quite make out why peter k woul
Rakesh, this sort of stuff has no business here.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:59:23PM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> last may i had a debate about hitchens' remarks on bob kerrey's war time
> activities. i criticized hitchens. a joanna sheldon and peter k rose to
> hitchens&#
last may i had a debate about hitchens' remarks on bob kerrey's war time
activities. i criticized hitchens. a joanna sheldon and peter k rose to
hitchens' defense. i referred to peter k as peter kitchens. he wrote me offlist
to tell me that i was an asshole for calling him kit
I don't think that we need to debate Hitchens foolishness here.
> Hitchens asks: "But must one not also measure intention and motive?"
>
> the american intention and motive is revealed post facto in its shutting down
> an investigation of the consequences of the b
Hitchens asks: "But must one not also measure intention and motive?"
the american intention and motive is revealed post facto in its shutting down
an investigation of the consequences of the bombing. this is what turned the
us bombing into a state terrorist act, whatever t
te
> Chomsky but, see that the Hitch is closer to his p.o.v.
> Michael Pugliese
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:41 AM
> Subject: [PEN-L:17556
>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:41 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:17556] Re: Fw: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
> apropos of what?
>
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:15:34AM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >
> > - Original Message -
> >
apropos of what?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:15:34AM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:07 AM
> Subject: RE: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
>
>
> Th
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: RE: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
There must be two
Christopher Hitchens, since Wolin is responding to an article that is almost,
point for point, the opposite of
-
From: cwright
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:15 PM
Subject: AUT: Wolin vs. Hitchens
This was forwarded to me by someone in News and Letters. Alongside their
Statement, i think it reflects a certain position. I hope to have a
critique of this on paper soon.
Cheers,
Chris
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