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☆ Opinion | Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is in the dock for trying to cheat America out of a fair election and body-snatch the true electors. But the arrest of Trump does not arrest the coup. The fact is, we’re mid-coup, not post-coup. The former president is still in the midst of his diabolical “Who will rid me of this meddlesome democracy?” plot, hoping his dark knights will gallop off to get the job done. His father disdained losers and Trump would rather ruin the country than admit he lost.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden, disdained Organizations: New York Times, Siena College

Initially Hunter Biden denied paternity, and later said he had no memory of fathering her at a low point in his life. Last week, the Bidens publicly acknowledged their grandchild, Navy Joan Roberts, for the first time ever. And I’m crazy about them,” Biden told a group of kids on the White House South Lawn in the spring. In public, the White House routinely described the issue as a private matter in which they had no role. “I just think being there is important, and it makes such a difference,” Biden told Shetty on his podcast.

Persons: Joe Biden, Hunter, Hunter Biden, Biden’s, “, ”, Joan Roberts, Biden, ” Biden, Jill Biden’s, Joey ”, ” —, –, Hunter “, Navy’s, Lunden Roberts, Hunter Biden “, Roberts, “ Biden, Maureen Dowd, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, he’s, Jay Shetty, Shetty, ” “ Jill Organizations: CNN, White, New York Times, House, Republicans, ”, ” Florida Gov, South, United Nations, People Magazine, Navy Locations: Arkansas, ” Florida, South Carolina, Hunter

☆ Ann Roth Is Hollywood’s Secret Weapon
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Maureen Dowd | More About Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“It was probably Jude Law and Matt Damon in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’” she said. “Not grain.”After all, as Ms. Roth said slyly, “I’m the world’s oldest costume designer, damn it!”Confirm or DenyMaureen Dowd: You have been wearing blue toenail polish every day since 1953. Ann Roth: Mike Nichols asked me to come to dinner with Anthony Minghella at the fancy Chinese restaurant in Beverly Hills, Mr Chow. She taught me about a fabric that was made in Czechoslovakia and found in Switzerland called silk souffle, which really doesn’t exist anymore. Cameramen sometimes liked to use it on their lenses because it made people look better.

Persons: Jude Law, Matt Damon, ‘, Ripley, ’ ”, Mamma Mia, ’, Mia, Streep, Roth, slyly, “, Maureen Dowd, Ann Roth, Mike Nichols, Anthony Minghella, Mr Chow, Minghella, Mike, “ You’re, Miles White, Marlene Dietrich, Miles Organizations: Ringling Bros, Barnum, Bailey, “ Locations: Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland

☆ Opinion | The Moment of Truth for Our Liar in Chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — A man is running to run the government he tried to overthrow while he was running it, even as he is running to stay ahead of the law. That sounds loony, except in the topsy-turvy world of Donald Trump, where it has a grotesque logic. The question now is: Has Trump finally run out of time, thanks to Jack Smith, who runs marathons as an Ironman triathlete? It was the flamboyant flimflam man vs. the buttoned-down, buttoned-up boy scout. Mueller, who had been a decorated Marine in Vietnam, was such a straight arrow that he never even deviated to wear a blue shirt when he ran the F.B.I.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Robert Mueller, Mueller Organizations: Trump Locations: Russia, Vietnam

☆ Carter, Biden and American Malaise
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Kimberley A. Strassel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by a landslide to Ronald Reagan, so it's difficult to understand why Joe Biden continues to follow the Carter 'malaise' playbook today (07/15/22). Bettman via Getty Images/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyWhen Jimmy Carter ran for president, the first U.S. senator to endorse him was Delaware’s Joe Biden. Mr. Carter later wrote in his White House diary that the first-term Democrat had been his “most effective supporter during the 1976 campaign.” In 2021 Mr. Biden was the first president since Mr. Carter left office 40 years earlier to visit him in Plains, Ga. “Those guys love each other,” a former Biden aide told Maureen Dowd of the New York Times .

Persons: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, Carter, Bettman, Mark Kelly, Delaware’s Joe Biden, Mr, ”, Biden, Maureen Dowd Organizations: Getty Images, New York Times Locations: Plains , Ga

☆ Hollywood Contemplates a Fake Tom Cruise - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — In the 2002 movie “Simone,” Al Pacino plays a director whose star, played by Winona Ryder, walks out on him after saying her trailer on set isn’t grand enough. Simone is a perfect-looking blonde, named after the computer program that crafted her, Simulation One. But Simone is so successful — lavished with Oscars, adored by fans — that she overshadows her director, who becomes jealous and gets rid of her with a computer virus. Be careful what you wish for, Hollywood studios, as you mess with the primal force of A.I. Hollywood’s century-old business model was upended by Covid and also by streaming, which swept in like an occupying army.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, “ Simone, ” Al Pacino, Winona Ryder, Simone, Tinseltown Organizations: Hollywood, Covid, Netflix Locations: WASHINGTON

☆ Opinion | How the Bidens Treat Hunter’s Daughter
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Trust me, the Bidens are in pain on this and so many other issues related to their struggling, courageous, flawed son. Perhaps in time they will make other choices about this precious little girl. But that’s part of their journey, and advice written to pressure a family isn’t helpful or fair to anyone. Anne DeCoccoRaleigh, N.C.To the Editor:I completely disagree with Maureen Dowd. But it was my choice, and if I had turned away for whatever private reason, I would not expect to be publicly condemned for it.

Persons: Maureen Dowd, Hunter Biden, Dowd, Biden, Anne DeCocco Raleigh, It’s, overstep, Joan Locations: N.C

☆ Opinion | It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — Even my Republican sister is not immune to Joe Biden’s gregarious Irish charm. She met him at media holiday parties over the years and was so impressed that she got seduced to the other side for a time, voting for the Obama-Biden ticket in 2008 and writing in Biden’s name for president in 2012. She sent out a Christmas card one year with a picture of herself cheek to cheek with Biden — and some of her Republican friends stopped speaking to her. So I was surprised recently when I discovered my sister writing a letter to President Biden, a plea that she had started in the middle of the night, after mulling over the matter for quite a while. “I watched as you told the nation that you had six grandchildren and you loved each one of them,” she wrote.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Joe Biden’s, Biden —, Biden, “, ”, Joan, ” Peggy Organizations: Republican, Obama, Biden, Navy Locations: Arkansas

☆ Opinion | Aficionados of TCM Fear for Its Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I speak as one of 25 TCM viewers chosen in a national contest to be a guest programmer on TCM for its 25th anniversary in 2019. Each of us was asked to introduce a film that meant something highly personal to us and to dedicate it to someone special in our lives. She sensed in that serendipitous moment that her father was still with her, and it sustained her. I chose the 1958 Oscar-winning musical “Gigi” and dedicated it to my wife. His gift was tickets to a performance of the show.

Persons: Maureen Dowd, Dowd, “ Bullitt ”, Steve McQueen, Gigi ”, Frederick Loewe Organizations: TCM, Turner, Warner Bros ., Broadway

☆ Opinion | Jersey Boy Takes On Florida Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I think that he’ll show up at the debates because his ego won’t permit him not to,” Christie said. He won’t deal well with that.”I warned that Trump is an asymmetrical fighter, so it’s hard to know how to go at him. He’s never run against somebody from New Jersey who understands what the New York thing is and what he’s all about. He knows I know what his game is.”He said he isn’t running to get back at Trump for giving him a horrible case of Covid. And he said he isn’t seeking payback because Trump didn’t make him attorney general.

Persons: Trump, “, ” Christie, ”, Clinton, Marco Rubio, I’ve, He’s, who’ve, Christie, Jared Kushner, Kushner’s Organizations: Republican, Fox News, Trump Locations: Milwaukee, New Jersey, York

☆ Opinion | Save Turner Classic Movies
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — I co-starred with Sir Alec Guinness in a movie where a submersible travels down to the Titanic, springs a leak and implodes. One scene was shot in the newsroom of The Washington Star, where I worked. It was cool to do because my father had a ticket for the Titanic when he was a teenager. His mother cried so much, he sold it to a young woman. “Raise the Titanic” pops up on Turner Classic Movies sometimes, along with other sagas like the 1953 “Titanic” with Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb, the 1958 “A Night to Remember” and James Cameron’s epic 1997 “Titanic” with Jack and Rose clinging to that notorious wooden door.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Sir Alec Guinness, Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, ”, James Cameron’s, Jack, Rose Organizations: The Washington Star, “, Turner Locations: America

☆ Maureen Dowd on ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

America Is ... We asked 17 columnists topick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country. Opinion America Is Highly SusceptibleIn America now, it seems, everyone has been snatched. The 1956 horror movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” with Kevin McCarthy, conjured one of our deepest fears as humans, one with particular resonance for the American ethos: Your humanity is replaced by something similar but frighteningly different, your self erased. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” has been repeatedly adapted because the fear it plays on is one at the core of the American self-conception. As (the good) Kevin McCarthy says in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “At first glance, everything looked the same.

Persons: topick, Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump, — Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz —, Trump, Covid, individualists, ” “, ” Organizations: Trump, Republican Party, Capitol, Republican Locations: America, California

☆ Opinion | To Jail or Not to Jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — Studying “Hamlet,” the revenge play about a rotten kingdom, I tried for years to fathom Hamlet’s motives, state of mind, family web, obsessions. His consciousness was so complex, Harold Bloom wrote, it seemed bigger than the play itself. Now I’m mired in another revenge play about a rotten kingdom, “Trump.” I’ve tried for years to fathom Donald Trump’s motives, state of mind, family web, obsessions. The man who dumbed down the office of the presidency is a less gratifying subject than the smarty-pants doomed prince. Trump is feral, focused on his own survival, with no sense of shame or boundaries or restraint.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Harold Bloom, “ Trump, ” I’ve, Donald, Trump, ” David Axelrod, “, ”

☆ Opinion | Saving the Flailing Humanities
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large,” by Maureen Dowd (column, May 28):Ms. Dowd’s column laments the decline of the humanities. Simultaneously, she definitively demonstrates that her exciting educational journey exquisitely prepares her, at a time when “political eloquence is scarce,” to hurl the most pointed slings and arrows so as to hit scurrilous actors where they hurt most. A wondrous part of her column focuses on rarely used words that have magnificently descriptive meanings. Perhaps, however, the obituary for the humanities is premature. I suggest that Ms. Dowd be placed in charge of a committee to find a new word.

Persons: Maureen Dowd, Dowd’s, Dowd Organizations: Frankensteins

☆ Trump’s Bathroom Reading at Mar-a-Lago - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — It’s shocking how easy it is to imagine Donald Trump campaigning for the presidency from prison. Maybe he’d even be able to smuggle in his special Tang-colored hair bleach. It wouldn’t be the first time someone tried for the White House from the Big House. In 1920, after being imprisoned on sedition charges for excoriating American involvement in World War I, which he considered a capitalistic war, Eugene Debs won about 900,000 votes as the Socialist Party nominee. “I will be a candidate at home in seclusion,” he joked when asked how he would campaign.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Donald Trump, He’d, ” He’d, Elvis, Pavarotti, Eugene Debs, “, ” Organizations: White, Big, Socialist Party, United Press, Trump Locations: Goodfellas

☆ Opinion | Jackie on My Mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — I think about Jackie Kennedy several times a day. Tour groups come by my house in Georgetown to see John Kennedy’s bachelor pad, where he was living when he met Jacqueline Bouvier at a dinner party. “Jackie told Jack he needed to get out of this dump,” the guide said. (Never a Heathcliff type, Jack sometimes treated her, as Jackie once told Gore Vidal, as though she were a campaign asset, like Rhode Island.) Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s new biography, “Camera Girl,” offers a lovely snapshot of Jackie’s single years in D.C., working at The Washington Times-Herald.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Jackie Kennedy, John, Jacqueline Bouvier, “ Jackie, Jack, we’ll, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Jackie, Gore Vidal, Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s Organizations: D.C, The Washington Times, Herald Locations: Georgetown, Rhode

☆ Opinion | Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of Algorithms. As I was pushing the rock up a hill, mastering Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce and Mary Shelley, I failed to notice that the humanities had fallen off the cliff. It was as if the bottle of great wine I saved to celebrate my degree was bouchonné. Students were fleeing to the hotter fields of tech and science.

☆ Opinion | Classical Crescendo
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — The orgasm heard around the world was reported by Magnus Fiennes, a composer and music producer who is the brother of Ralph Fiennes. Some in the audience tweeted back, wondering if the moaning was due to a medical condition. But the woman, who stayed with her smiling partner for the whole concert, has not come forward to clear it up. — it seems that classical music is getting hotter. Albert Imperato, a New York music promoter, says the idea is breaking through that classical music is not supposed to be safe and relaxing.

☆ Opinion | Was CNN Right to Air the Trump Town Hall?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:In the past week several journalists have weighed in defending CNN’s decision to hold a town hall with Donald Trump. These include Maureen Dowd’s May 14 column (“No Playing Ostrich With Trump”), Anderson Cooper’s commentary on CNN and Bill Sammon, a former managing editor at Fox News, in an Opinion guest essay (“We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About the Trump Town Hall,” nytimes.com, May 13). They all make the point that the media has an obligation to cover Mr. Trump given his political prominence. But there is a difference between covering Mr. Trump and giving him his own TV special, which is exactly what it was. It’s been Trump, Trump, Trump for eight years now.

☆ Opinion | No Playing Ostrich With Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — My brothers Michael and Martin attended baseball’s opening day at the old Griffith Stadium in April 1951, with the Senators (as our team was then called) playing the Yankees. When the boys got home, Martin confessed to our father that he had stood up to boo the president before Michael pulled him down. “Dad told me that President Truman was a great man,” Martin later recalled. “He said that if Truman fired MacArthur, he must have his reasons and that I should never boo another president. And to a large degree, we have Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch to thank for that.

☆ Opinion | Supremely Arrogant
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is still great. It’s the greatest gathering of grievances we’ve ever seen on the high court. The woe-is-me bloc of conservative male justices is obsessed with who has wronged them. It might be an opportune time to hire a Supreme shrink so these resentful men can get some much-needed therapy and stop working out their issues from the bench. that did not fit,” according to a classmate who talked to The New York Times.

☆ Opinion | Requiem for the Newsroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — I don’t want this to be one of those pieces that bangs on about how things used to be better, and they’ll never be as good again. But, when it comes to newsrooms, it happens to be true. “What would a newspaper movie look like today?” wondered my New York Times colleague Jim Rutenberg. Now we sit at home alone staring at our computers. There’s a reason they made all those newspaper movies, ‘All the President’s Men,’ ‘Spotlight,’ ‘The Paper.’

☆ He Calls the Shots for New York’s Governor. He Lives in Colorado.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Mr. Sullivan often insisted that crime was a losing issue for Ms. Hochul. Mr. Sullivan declined to comment on campaign strategy. He and Ms. Hochul have stood by its chairman, Jay Jacobs, who has become a punching bag for Democrats, especially on the left. Mr. Sullivan’s allies say he and Ms. Hochul want to strengthen the party, but they could only describe vague plans. “I don’t think he has any agenda other than the governor being successful.”Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

☆ Opinion | We Were Wrong About President Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On this airborne ego trip, he had a bed, and I don’t mean a seat that flattened into one. He had an office, with a desk bigger than those of some earthbound executives. President.” He’d upgraded from his old surname, as illustrious as it was, to a kind of divinity. I never flew with President Barack Obama. But I visited him in the White House several times.

☆ Opinion | DeSantis’s Puddin’ Head Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — Back in the more openly sexist days of Hollywood, writers would get notes on their scripts about women characters. The studio suits would ask questions like, “Can they go to a strip club here?” or “Can you chain her to a wall?”The most common note from male executives was, “Make the girl more likable.”No doubt Ron DeSantis’s advisers are getting notes from donors these days with the message, “Make the guy more likable.”As David Axelrod told me, the Florida governor is coming across like “the high school quarterback who throws the geek against the lockers to get a laugh from the cheerleaders — and that’s not a good look.”He said DeSantis is learning a lesson: “The kind of tricks you use to get elected to other offices don’t work in a presidential race because you get scrutinized so closely.”

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