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The 35th American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born 92 years ago today, which makes this the perfect occasion to count down memorable screen incarnations of the nation’s favorite playboy head of state and mysterious martyr. Enjoy John in all his forms and incarnations with our 7 Stately Screen Versions of JFK.
Clone High

Having him play [...]

Yesterday’s inauguration had plenty of notable moments: John Roberts fumbling the Oath of Office, Ted Kennedy’s health scare at the luncheon, Aretha Franklin’s hat upstaging Aretha Franklin. Mostly, the coverage lent even more lucidity to my dreams of a White House slumber party with Sasha and Malia Obama (at which we’ll play dress-up and prank [...]

Some time ago, in an earlier edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, we looked at some of the most overt, excessive and unsubtle phallic monuments built by man. While the need to put power, potency and might into concrete (and steel and glass) expression smacks of typical late-capitalist chauvinism, it would be a mistake [...]