Ever since 1990′s Metropolitan, writer-director Whit Stillman has been documenting the foibles and mores of elite WASPs the “urban haute bourgeoisie.” His latest film, Damsels in Distress, is set at fictional Seven Oaks College, and explores the efforts of Greta Gerwig as Violet Wister, Analeigh Tipton as Lily and Megalyn Echikunwoke as the posh London [...]
Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin are the co-authors of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men. Knowing how much I love the show (at least in its early seasons — get back to me when this season is over…) my wife gave me a copy of the book [...]
I was on the Brian Wilson show discussing my PJ Lifestyle posts on the negative portrayal of men in the media. You can listen here.
Novelist, screenwriter, GBTV.com and PJTV contributor and PJ Media columnist Andrew Klavan and I spoke on Sunday for a 22-minute long podcast interview, in which we discussed: The shock news last week of Andrew Breitbart’s passing away. The tone of the left when the news broke. A follow-up on Drew’s PJM post back in November, [...]
What connects seemingly disparate works such as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Mad Men, and Seinfeld? It is the philosophy of nihilism, first popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 19th century. But in the last few decades, how did it become the dominant worldview of Hollywood? In 1999, Dr. Thomas S. Hibbs, [...]
If Terry Teachout, the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal who also blogs at About Last Night, sounds particularly refreshed in our latest podcast, it isn’t because he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Shortly before our interview, he and his wife had recently spent two nights at Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark Seth [...]
Steve Green, your friendly neighborhood VodkaPundit, the genial host of PJTV’s long-running Week In Blogs and Hair of the Dog shows, and along with Scott Ott and Bill Whittle is one-third of PJTV’s Trifecta series, stops by for a podcast chat. In a ten minute interview, we’ll discuss: How does one remain a bon vivant [...]
Roger L. Simon will be discussing his new movie, A Better Life, on Hugh Hewitt’s talk radio show at 3:40 PM Pacific time today. Consult your local listings to find a station near you. And click here to see where A Better Life, which Charlie Martin recently reviewed here at the Lifestyle blog, is playing [...]
Glenn Reynolds should need little introduction to Pajamas Media’s readers, but just in case you’re beaming in from another temporal plane or quantum singularity, he’s a pioneering blogger, whose Instapundit.com is PJM’s flagship blog, and he hosts the long-running Instavision show on PJTV.com. He’s also the author of An Army of Davids, which explores do [...]
“Lifestyle blogs often have a PC bent; it will be refreshing to have one for the rest of us.” – Dr. Helen Smith, in her first post here at the new PJ Lifestyle blog. Speaking of which, welcome onboard! This is the place where we’ll be discussing movies, TV, music, the sort of food and [...]
