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Dr. Strangelove

  1. ‘talk!’
    My Coffee With Stanley KubrickIn 1964, a professor wrote to Kubrick about Dr. Strangelove’s structural “duplication of sexual intercourse.” He wrote back — and asked to meet.
  2. The 20 Best Comedy Movies of All TimeThe funniest movies tend to burrow into our brains like no other form of popular entertainment. Through repeated viewings and earworm quotes, […]
  3. Fighting - or at Least Responding to - War and Terrorism with ComedyWelcome to the latest installment of Tragedy Plus Time. Each segment will focus on a particular ‘life crisis’ — sometimes globally […]
  4. The Lost Roles of Peter SellersLost Roles is a weekly column exploring “what might have been” in movie and TV comedy as we take a different actor, writer, or comedian each […]
  5. pop culture memory lane
    How Dr. Strangelove Ruined a Birthday PartyIn the latest “Pop Culture Memory Lane,” comedian Connor Ratliff describes the time he showed the “funniest movie of all time” at his 13th-birthday party.
  6. vulture video
    Watch The Newsroom’s Characters React to Other Movie Freak-outsStarring Maggie’s wide-eyed stare and Don’s OMG face.
  7. dr. strangelove
    See a List of Unused Titles for Dr. StrangeloveAnything’s better than “Patch Adams.”
  8. the list
    Tina Fey, ‘W.,’ and the Ten Funniest Political Impressions of All Time
  9. apropos of nothing
    ‘Umbrella’ Watch 2008: Is R. Kelly’s ‘Body Body’ the Song of the Summer?It’s a summery ode to Kellz’s inexhaustible virility (as usual), enhanced by an Auto-Tune for which T-Pain is, happily, in no way responsible.
  10. in other news
    Music and LyricsThe case of Paul Cortez, the personal trainer–musician accused of murdering a dancer who snubbed him, took an odd turn yesterday when the prosecution offered the defendant’s song lyrics as evidence of his violent tendencies. The Times quotes Cortez’s attorney, Dawn Florio, who claimed that songs like “The Killin Machine” were perfectly normal for her client to have written: “Rock stars don’t write about tulips and butterflies,” she explained. Objection, hearsay. — Lori Fradkin Lyrics and Diaries Offered as a Portrait of a Killer [NYT]
  11. new york fugging city
    Max Azria Designs Maternity Chic We finally found the celebrities. Or at least knew where some of them were for twenty minutes yesterday at BCBG Max Azria. While prowling the front row pre-show in an attempt to see which starlet would be feeling our wrath this evening, we noticed that Katharine McPhee was scheduled to appear. The American Idol runner-up didn’t make it, possibly because it was too stressful to make the trip from TRL — where she made an appearance this afternoon wearing casual jeans and some top that we don’t remember — to the tents, where, we assume, she’d have to wear something a bit higher-flying, possibly necessitating a change in the Town Car. That sounds like a lot of work.