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Etelka Freund plays Johannes Brahms Intermezzo in Eb minor, op. 118 No. 6

Throw these infidels in jail

Dear reader: let’s sit back, relax, and take a trip down memory lane to prehistoric times – the pre-9/11, pre-YouTube, pre-Facebook world. Ten years ago, Taliban Afghanistan – Talibanistan – was under a social, cultural, political and economic nightmare. Arguably, not much has changed. Or has it?

Kublai Khan: Patron of Tibetan Buddhism

Edgar Allan Poe – Come Little Children

Question: Who the F is Jon Snow???

The psychological warfare against women in business is enough to annihilate the smallest spark of competition and thus I have to hand it to any woman, including myself, who has made tremendous strides and against the odds.

But the old prejudices prevail and even Virgin Queens get mud slung at them without remorse.

I know I was very angry when the Bird`s Eye festival about women comediennes in a debate about the subject pulled in two male critics (Kevin Brownlow and some guy dragged over from America) to discuss the subject with a woman from the BFI.

Mind, I had just reissued my Marilyn Monroe biography `The Marilyn Scandal` via Sandra Shevey Books and have done a considerable amount of research about Marilyn as an actress and a comedienne. I also knew firsthand many of the comediennes whom they profiled including Joan Blondell and others.

But it wasn`t or isn`t just a personal thing. They failed to recruit any of the profound feminist critics.

So why is Snow doing JC?

Answer: Seems like you have a lot of anti male issues.

Prejudice can work both ways and you are offering a very good example of gender stereotyping albeit as female against male.

Is the male point of view any less valid than the female? You appear to think so.

Humor, politics rule fall book lineup

NEW YORK – Jon Stewart is a busy man, a most important man who has no time for such pastimes as reading for pleasure. Unless, of course, the book is his own.

Marilyn Monroe Biography