Lee Siegel
Lee Siegel
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth5 December 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
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Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
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Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
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The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.
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Every man is a hero to his alias.
readers
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.
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In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.
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It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
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I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.