Can 2000 voting cinephiles be wrong? You decide: This year’s inductees reflect the wide appeal of B-Movies and their ability to stand the test of time and resonate with the popular culture. “Many of this year’s inductees overcame problems of distribution common with B-Movies, yet time was their ally and …

There has been all kinds of blather from the left and right that Arab countries cannot sustain democracy. This is smug, lazy, and even racist or at least “culturalist,” thinking. George Will pooh-pooh’ed it in the Washington Post last month: Bush and Blair and many people called neoconservatives believe that …

GE’s NBC snags the bride Universal in deal with Vivendi: NBC and Vivendi said they intend to combine the assets into a new company, which would most likely be called NBC Universal, though a final deal has yet to be worked out. The companies expect to complete the last phase …

George: heave the hypocritical horseshit. I sit absolutely right on the fence regarding the presidency of GW Bush: all for the war on terror and in agreement with its prominence on the presidential agenda, but I have all kinds of problems with his handling of other issues, and his steel …

Continuing my stomp through musical history in oversized muddy boots, I hereby declare Blonde On Blonde the greatest Dylan album EVER! Not much controversy there, but it’s still true. Bob Dylan is the most important American songwriter of the last 50 years and, arguably, the greatest white blues singer of …

I’m in the mood to make unqualified blanket statements today because I can. So here’s one: Abbey Road is the best Beatles studio album – not Sgt Peppers, not Revolver, or whatflippingever. Abbey Road, from 1969, was the last album the Beatles recorded together (Let It Be, recorded earlier, was …

I quit the latest incarnation of my radio show Cool Tunes nearly a year ago (already!), and as the pattern always goes, I am starting to miss radio again after being really sick of it, and, as a result, thinking about it again. About the most “normal” radio phase I …

Blazingly keen mind, excellent writer, blogger to the stars, and internationally known hottie, Virginia Postrel has a new book out today (thanks for the reminder InstaGlenn), The Substance of Style. In addition to a nice book description here: From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye …

ABC News’ political blog “The Note” has some provocative thoughts today governing politics and the media over the next six weeks or so: Since there’s that whole Labor-Day-kick-off thing, and it’s the beginning of a very big month, let’s clear the air with a very big a-hem of reality: the …

A great new Slim Harpo (born James Moore, 1924) collection is the first I have received in connection with the forthcoming PBS series Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, a seven-part look at the genre premiering Sept. 28. While Harpo’s name may not be familiar to casual fans, his music surely …