The Line of the Year 2012
"Argo, fuck yourself" must be the line of the year 2012 because it delivers our day's philosophy in a nutshell: most of the time,...
Fantastic Mr. Trump Finds Dory
As thousands gathered outside the White House to demand Trump rescind the order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for...
Sneaking into Paradise with John Malkovich
“Michael Sturminger, give me your opera, theater, musicals,” I would have easily said plagiarizing Emma Lazarus at the end of The Giacomo Variations, ...
Letter to Cartoonophobes:
It is with deep interest that I read how some people of Allah enlist themselves to kill cartoonists. And I wonder: why?
Why do people...
Madonna Does Florence
Amazing Madonna kept a very busy schedule in Florence. She performed in the evening, then spent the night with her 24-year-old French boyfriend Brahim...
The Songs the Obamas and the Bidens Were Told to Listen to this Christmas
Dear TPV Readers, here is vetted music you can listen to, also:
The Obamas and the Bidens just shared their holiday playlists:
Just in time for...
Schwarzenegger: Total Freefall?
In the 1993 action movie, Demolition Man, Bruce Willis’s character is thawed (after being cryogenically frozen in 1996) in the year 2023 in future...
BricLAB with Jerome and James – where art becomes thou
Yesterday, I attended a most unexpected performance.
It had wit,
erudition,
beautiful music, and
a great sense of purpose as both performers enjoy tremendous charisma.
But...
I Want Your Sex. Safely
Marquel TPVs NYTimes Keep It Up Section correspondent, was wondering about Scientology, when he felt a desire to rid the world of insanity and read...
Hair, Nip, Rump and Kanye
The best four moments of the 57th Grammy Awards were shockingly not related to music but to the people who brought us atonal tonalities, aka amusical crap:
4....
The Little Corporal!
We are so lucky to have discovered Jessica Raimi.
Here is a perfect summer read reprinted by permission!*
Beneath the gilded dome of the Invalides in...
Hair. The Next (to last) Generation.
Unless hyped, hair is such a non-issue, that one would be baffled to hear that Hair makes for a less repetitive musical than Mama...
Live from ThePotholeView: According to Us, Gore Vidal Is Still Having Fun
When you have Gore Vidal's irreverent wit and cosmopolitan nature, you cannot stop having fun. At random, I picked this quote to announce his...
Madonna Embraces Millennials- Wholeheartedly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtgS8NjSTys
Madonna, the marketing magnet who doesn’t seem to want to go away, launched her new video on social media yesterday; no, not that old...


















