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 GERALD NACHMAN

 

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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


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