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2012:
Term Limits--2013:
Dec. 3, 2012
Humming A Happy
Tune: Nov, 26, 2012
The Lord Gets His
Due: Sept. 10, 2012
Singin' in the Sun:
July 30 2012
Whe-e-e-r-r-r-e's
Steve?: May 28, 2012
Ah-Ah-Ah! Don't
Touch That Remote!: May 14, 2012
Tick, Tick, Tick--Time
Finally Runs Out on Mike Wallace: April 16, 2012
New Romneycare Rolls
Into Action: April 9, 2012
Playing Video Games
with the G.O.P.: March 19, 2012
Come See the Cabaret...:
Feb. 13, 2012
Golden Oldies and
Gilded Newies: Feb. 6, 2012
Searching For Doris
Day: Jan. 23, 2012
The First Annual
GET LOST Awards: Jan. 2, 2012
2011:
Razing My Past
& Raising A Toast: Dec. 5, 2011
Real Life Theatre:
Nov. 21, 2011
Scare Tactics: Oct.
31, 2011
Take A Wall Street
Occupier To Lunch: Oct. 31, 2011
Eat Everything On
Your Plate!: Oct. 3, 2011
How To Tell If You're
A Musicals Fanatic: Sept. 12, 2011
9/11's Post-Traumatic
Shock Syndrome: Sept. 5, 2011
Power To the Vegans:
Sept. 5, 2011
I'll Have the Lingua
Franca; Hold the Pig's Ears: Aug. 22, 2011
Don't Make Me Laugh:
May 9, 2009
Starry-Eyed and
Glassy-Eyed: May 9, 2011
Taylor-Made for
Movies: March 28, 2011
Bogus Broadway:
March 28, 2011
Betty Garrett...Take
It Away!: Feb. 28, 2011
And
the Oscar Goes To...Who Cares?: Feb. 21, 2011
Speaking
of "The King's Speech": Feb. 21, 2011
"The
King's Speech": Feb. 21, 2011
Losing Mary Cleere
Haran: Feb. 7, 2011
"Hey, Mr. S,
Do You Want Fries With That?": Feb. 7, 2011
The Late, Great
Margaret Whiting: Jan. 24, 2011
Missing Larry King...:
Jan. 24, 2011
Time Hobbles On:
Jan. 17, 2011
Classical Gas: Jan.
10, 2011
2010:
Friend of the
Year: Dec. 20, 2010
Christmas Books
For the Remainder Bin: Dec. 6, 2010
Eddie Fisher: Sept.
27, 2010
Take Me Out of the
Ball Park: June 28, 2010
All the News That's
Unfit to Read: June 7, 2010
Hosts Do
the Darndest Things: May 31, 2010
Piano--I Love
A Piano, Sometimes: May 10, 2010
Cruising the Tabloids:
April 19, 2010
Television Rants
and Raves: March 15, 2010
The J.D. Salinger
Nobody Knew: March 8, 2010
My Life As A Performing
Seal: Feb. 15, 2010
TV'S New Feudal
Wars: Feb. 8, 2010
Splendor in the
Grass or Wherever: Feb. 1, 2010
Why is 'Tonight'
Like All Other Nights?: Feb. 1, 2010
The Era in Review:
Jan. 4, 2010
2009:
Tiger, Tiger,
Burning Bright: Dec. 21, 2009
Television's First
American Idol-maker: Dec. 7, 2009
Tales From the Publishing
Crypt: Oct. 26, 2009
A Nobel Gesture:
Oct. 19, 2009
All the News Unfit
to Print: Sept. 28, 2009
Have A Real Great
Existence!: Sept. 21, 2009
Where Have All the
Credits Gone?: Aug. 10, 2009
Playing Uncle Walter:
July 27, 2009
My Latest Discoveries: July 27,
2009
A Few Kind Words
in Defense of Cars: July 20,. 2009
The Benighted 'Tonight
Show': July 13, 2009
Pop Star Dies! Media
Flips!: June 29, 2009
The DayAfter 'Tomorrow'--Part
Three: June 29, 2009
The Day After 'Tomorrow'--Part
Two: June 15, 2009
The Day After 'Tomorrow'--Part
One: June 8, 2009
Rabbit At Rest:
Feb. 3, 2009
Yes, He Can, But
Can I?: Feb. 2, 2009
2008:
Good Shoemanship:
Dec. 22, 2008
Cliches in Action:
Dec. 15, 2008
The Fascination
Sweepstakes of 2008--A Critical Study: Dec. 8, 2008
Waiting For Obama:
Dec. 8, 2008
Words For the Unwise:
Dec. 1, 2008
The Bridge To Anywhere:
Oct. 28, 2008
Welcome To Palin
County: Oct. 27, 2008
Depressed? Who,
Me?: Oct. 27, 2008
A Day at the Sarah
Palin Rumor Mill: Sept. 22, 2008
Sarah, We Hardly
Know Ye...But What the Heck!: Sept. 8, 2008
Lincoln at Gettysburg:
Sept. 1, 2008
Convention-al Wisdom:
Sept. 1, 2008
All the News Fit
To Skimp: Aug. 4, 2008
American Satire's
Last Gasp: July 21, 2008
Not Been There,
Done Nothing; July 14, 2008
Death Of A Newsman:
June 23, 2008
Beige Like Me: June
16, 2008
The Rascally Columnists
of San Francisco: June 16, 2008
Enter and Sign In,
Please!: April 7, 2008
A Belated Auld Lang
Syne: Jan. 21, 2008
2007:
Life Is
A Cabaret, But It's Closing Time (afterword): Nov. 26, 2007
Autumn in New York:
Nov. 26, 2007
Limbo Revisited
(Part 34): Nov. 19, 2007
Seriously Writing
(Part 33): Nov. 12, 2007
Behind the Cover
(Part 32): Oct. 29, 2007
One Knight in
Shining Armor at My Service (Part 31): Oct. 22, 2007
That Old Gang
O' Mine (Part 30): Oct. 15, 2007
End of the Trail
(Part 29): Oct. 3, 2007
Remembrances of
Flings Past (Part 28): Oct. 1, 2007
How Long Has This
Been Going On? (Not Very): Sept. 17, 2007
Bravos and Boos
For Mr. ShowBiz (Part 27): Sept. 17, 2007
Single...with
No Children (Part 26): Sept. 3, 2007
All the President's
Mutts: Sept. 3, 2007
Almost A Broadway
Baby (Part 25): Aug. 20, 2007
Nachman Finally
Goes Hollywood (Part 24): Aug. 6, 2007
"Quirks"
(Part 23): July 30, 2007
Little Man About
Town (Part 22): July 16, 2007
You Can Go Home
Again--and Again and Again (Part 21): July 16, 2007
From Pigs to Blogs
(Part 20): July 9, 2007
On the Road Again
(Part 19): July 2, 2007
A Few Forgotten
American Idols: July 2, 2007
A Negative Force
in Fashion?: June 25, 2007
With Sadie At
Sardi's (Part 18): June 25, 2007
Discovering
America (Part 17): June 18, 2007
The Sopranos--The
Movie: June 18, 2007
Father's Day 1953
(Part 16): June 11, 2007
Media Ring Around
the Rosie: June 11, 2007
Book Marks (Part
15): June 4, 2007
Agents of Doom
(Part 14): May 28, 2007
Down the Syndicate
Drain (Part 13): May 21, 2007
Sowing My Wild
Cheerios (Part 12): May 14, 2007
A Columnist Conspiracy
(Part 11): April 23, 2007
Small Frog in
A Big Pond (Part 10): April 23, 2007
Take Me Back to
Manhattan (Part 9): April 23, 2007
Who Was That
Ho I Saw You With?: April 16, 2007
A-Junketing We
Will Go! (Part 8): April 16, 2007
My Years As A Journalistic
Starlet in Oakland (Part 7): April 9, 2007
Portrait of
the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 6: April 2, 2007
Portrait of the
Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 5: March 26, 2007
Portrait of the
Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 4: March 19, 2007
Who, Me, President?
Etc.: March 12, 2007
A View From the
Brooklyn Bridge--Part Three: March 12, 2007
A View From the
Brooklyn Bridge--Part Two: March 5, 2007
A View From the
Brooklyn Bridge--Part One: Feb. 26, 2007
"The
Queen": Feb. 19, 2007
I Blab, Therefore
I Am: Jan. 29, 2007
Art Buchwald &
The Art of Humor: Jan. 22, 2007
Signs of Les Times:
Jan. 15, 2007
Hollywoodese Spoken
Here: Jan. 1, 2007
2006:
Right Here on
Our Stage Tonight--Ed Sullivan!: Dec. 18, 2006
The Cocktail Party--A
Survival Manual: Dec. 4, 2006
All Aboard For Library
Heaven: Oct. 23, 2006
Eat Your Heart Out,
Michelin Man!: Oct. 9, 2006
Late-Breaking Interplanetary
News: Sept. 4, 2006
Who Let the Dog
Books Out?: Aug. 28, 2006
American Mythology:
Aug. 14, 2006
Dumb-De-Dumb-Dumb:
Aug. 7, 2006
My Date with Miss
Right: July 3, 2006
The Swift Demise
of Dan Rather: June 26, 2006
Your Drowsy Broadway
Chaparone: June 19, 2006
Deadline Approaches
For the Press: May 10, 2006
Baseball's Great
Hot Dog Scandal: April 20, 2006
Whatever Happened
to Russell Baker?: April 3, 2006
Anchors Away: March
27, 2006
Our Favorite Comic
Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
The All-Time Jerrys:
Feb. 27, 2006
Sitting Duck: Feb.
20, 2006
Famous Rejection
Slips: Jan. 30, 2006
Designed For Disaster:
Jan. 9, 2006
My Whack at Golf:
Jan. 2, 2006
2005:
Single Bells,
Single Bells, Single All the Way: Dec. 19, 2005
May I Show You the
Door...?: Dec. 5, 2005
All Hail, Blue and
White!: Nov. 14, 2005
Back To Unreality:
Sept. 5, 2005
The Crazy Giraffes
of Omaha: Aug. 15, 2005
The Fonda Syndrome:
May 16, 2005
Beauty and the Best:
May 2, 2005
The Celebrity Life:
April 11, 2005
Very Advanced English
101: April 4, 2005
Broadway, Gimme A
Break, Will Ya?: March 14, 2005
Ya Gotta Know the
Territory--A True Believer's Guide to Musicals: March 7, 2005
Death of A Playwright:
Feb. 21, 2005
Words From the Would-Be
Wise: Feb. 7, 2005
One Last Time Around
the Block: Jan. 31, 2005
Wherrre's Johnny?:
Jan. 27, 2005
The People We Most
Want To See Less of In 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Tell the Home Run
Goodbye!: Jan. 10, 2005
Food Fight: Jan.
3, 2005
2004:
Don't Date Yourself:
Dec. 13, 2004
I'm A Member of the
Liberal Minority: Nov. 15, 2004
How To Read A
Newspaper: Aug. 30, 2004
God Loves Good Guys
With Guns: July 5, 2004
Saint Ronnie: June
14, 2004
News For Incoming
Martians: May 31, 2004
The Guy I Left Behind:
May 17, 2004
Confessions of A
Book Tour Slut: April 19, 2004
Paar For the Course:
Feb. 2, 2004
DEAD--The Prequel:
Feb. 2, 2004
My Life Upon the
Wicked Stage: Jan. 19, 2004
Lenny's Garbled Legacy:
Jan. 5, 2004
GOD Makes A Nice
Comeback: Dec. 8, 2003
2003:
Return with Us...to
Those Thrilling Formats of Yesteryear!: Sept. 1, 2003
Tomorrow's Gay Divorcees:
Aug. 25, 2003
Bang-bang, We're
Dead: March 24, 2003
Another Heartfelt
Saga: March 10, 2003
Eureka! Classics
Finally Out on DVD: Feb. 24, 2003
In Memory of...Two
Mighty Pens: Jan. 27, 2003
Leaving An Impression:
Jan. 13, 2003
2002:
On Writing: Inklings
of A Career in Writing: Dec. 16, 2002
Latest Government
Scare Tactics Unveiled: Dec. 2, 2002
Merchants of Grief:
Sept. 9, 2002
Backstage: Sept.
2, 2002
A Comic Force of
Nature: March 31, 2002
Beware Those Graven
Images!: March 17, 2002
Here Come the Broadway
Bio-Stars: Updated Jan. 13, 2002
2001:
Broadway's All-New
Dark Age: Updated Dec. 16, 2001
"The Producers"
Let Me Down: Dec. 2, 2001
Reflecting
on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Take
Me Out of the Ball Game!: May 13, 2001
"Klaatu,
Borada, Nachman!": Feb. 4, 2001
Gerald
Nachman's JAZZ!: Jan. 28, 2001
Gimme
A B! Gimme A U! Gimme An S! Gimme An H!: Jan. 7, 2001
2000:
The
Critics: Love 'em or Leave 'em: Nov. 1, 2000
Who's
Laughing Anyway?: Sept. 27, 2000
Pop
Go the Hollywood Weasels!: Sept. 13, 2000
O
Where,O Where Have Those Pin-Up Girls Gone?: Aug. 23, 2000
Guilty
Pleasures: July 11, 2000
Surviving
Television's Latest Trend: June 28, 2000
So
Many Opinions... So Little Time!: June 14, 2000
Our
New (Silent) Movie Stars: April 26, 2000
Muzak,
Muzak, Everywhere
And Not A Note I Like!: April 19, 2000
Crossdressing
For Success: April 5, 2000
Let's
Really Hear It For . . . Just About Anybody!: March 15, 2000
Shakespeare
You Da Man! Feb. 16, 2000
Broadway
Enters A New "Dark Age": Jan. 26, 2000
Now
That Hollywood Is Thinking Small: Jan. 21, 2000
Babylon:
The Director's Cut: Jan. 19, 2000
Best
of the New Books Hot Off the Millennium Press: Jan. 12, 2000
1999:
If
God Did TV Talk Shows: Dec. 3, 1999
Lamenting
Lost Showtunes of Deservedly Obscure Composers: Dec. 1, 1999