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Articles Written by: JOANNA WEISS
GEORGE W. Bush always tried to keep a distance his father, the 41st president; the son aimed to make his own legacy, define his own approach. The dynamic between Liz Cheney and her father, Dick, is strikingly different.
She is managing the writing of ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
12 Mar 2010
ALEXANDRA PENNEY is angling to be the most famous of the Bernie Madoff victims, and this is a dubious distinction. To be a Madoff victim, after all, is to admit that you had a less-than-stellar handle on your financial affairs. It’s also to admit that ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
5 Mar 2010
LAST WEEK, my 15-month-old son got his Pentacel shot, which contains vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, and a form of influenza that can cause bacterial meningitis. By rights, I should have felt relieved: He’s now protected from a ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
26 Feb 2010
HERE’S A thing that happens when you’re 14 years old and you start a group called the “No Cussing Club’’: Adults adore you. They book you for speaking engagements, interview you on the Fox News Channel, feature you on the “Jay Leno Show,’’ make you ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
19 Feb 2010
SAY THIS for John Mayer: He knows how to get people talking. In a now-infamous interview in the March issue of “Playboy,’’ the rock star tried a little too hard to sound like . . . well, a rock star talking to “Playboy.’’ But he used the n-word and ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
12 Feb 2010
AS WRITTEN, Beyoncé’s “If I Were a Boy’’ is a plaintive ballad by a woman wronged, a tale of summoning up the strength to turn the sleazoid away. But at the Grammys last week, she turned the song into something entirely different.
She started off angry, ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNSIT,
Boston Globe,
5 Feb 2010
I HAVE a new hero, his name is Tyler, and he’s a babyfaced teen from a broken home who got his girlfriend pregnant. He’s one of the real-life stars of the MTV series “Teen Mom,’’ and he defies the image of teenaged dad as lugnut ne’er-do-well. He ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
29 Jan 2010
ONE OF the smartest analyses of this week’s Senate election came from Stephen Colbert, the faux talk show host on Comedy Central. He summed up the race by saying Massachusetts, a state with near-universal healthcare, had a message for the rest of the ...
From JOANNA WEISS, GLOBE COLUMNIST,
Boston Globe,
22 Jan 2010
This is an edited version of a review that ran when the unedited “Caprica’’ pilot was released on DVD last year.
Compared to “Battlestar Galactica,’’ the prequel series “Caprica’’ peddles a different sort of darkness. If the former was mired in fear ...
From JOANNA WEISS,
Boston Globe,
21 Jan 2010
EVERY YEAR or two, another TV show is declared the end of Western civilization, and this winter it was “Jersey Shore,’’ MTV’s real-life chronicle of breasts, brawls, and drunken amnesia in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The series, which ends its first ...
From JOANNA WEISS,
Boston Globe,
20 Jan 2010
