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In the late 1990s, a time that seems ancient, I touched the emperor’s hem.

I was just reading an article about the oddly prolonged adolescence of American males, especially those in the movies. There's a common fantasy where the guys get away from their wives and girlfriends, and escape to where they're free to guzzle beer, eat sloppily, belch, fart, leave pizza boxes on the floor, scratch their butts, watch sports on TV, and in many other ways become irresistible to hot chicks. When was the last time you saw a man under 30 in the movies who had a stable marriage, a job, children, and a life where he valued his wife above his buddies?

The last shot of "Citizen Kane" showed the dead tycoon's storerooms, vast spaces filled with the jumble of a lifetime. One of the early shots in this documentary about George Stevens has something of the same quality. We see the memorabilia of his long career: cowboy hats, leather-bound scripts, cans of film, albums of photographs, Oscars, diaries, belt buckles -- everything with a story, and half the stories already forgotten.

Asner's appearance as Mary's crusty boss Lou Grant in his 40's catapulted him to a decades-long acting career that would include hundreds of TV and movie…

The art of Dolly Parton’s bra on The Spectator Australia | New YorkI hope this is my last week in the Bagel. I plan to fly first to Switzerland and then on…