Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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There are some people for whom it will always be too soon, but that doesn't mean we have to reduce ourselves to silence.
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That definition of perky is really kind of a sexist statement. We could apply that to a lot of guys as well.
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Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else.
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Elvis Presley Ate Here' is the cultural equivalent of 'George Washington Slept Here', ... Every time a place makes a claim that Elvis ate there, it becomes a memorial to his memory, to his life and to his legend.
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Then, all of a sudden, it was big money. It went from small stakes to huge stakes, but at the same time, it was still very challenging.
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He still has some of the same mystique, but now the mystery has flopped from an asset to a liability. 'Who is the real Michael Jackson?' is not a question people want to ask anymore, when you're accused of something like this.
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rough contrivance to lift from the social conscience a burden that should not be either lifted or lightened in any way.
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I must admit, I am little giddy right now.
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It becomes just another media in which these celebrities work.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension, ... I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.
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It's so dense. There are so many mysteries going on. It's the perfect show for internet speculating.
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It becomes very clear that the oil industry wants to develop 100 percent of the North Slope - the land and the ocean.
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So when we're watching The Sopranos in reruns ten years from now, on a big-screen, it will still look good.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension. I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.