Even though pickleking (pickleking?) beat me to it, I'll say it anyway:

I guess Nehemiah Parsoff, Actors' Studio colleague of Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger before a long stage, film and TV career, then a second one as an artist, really is forgotten. His name is Persoff.

I would also suggest WWW's contemporary, The Avengers, as the show that broke the Gentlemen Adventurers mode. Now THERE was a gay show, except....

Doesn't anybody remember the lefty Unisex fad of the early 90s (92, 93) that included men wearing dresses? As I recall, they were somewhat saronglike, but with shoulder straps. Looked like absolute hell; it seemed, for some reason, that it was always the hairiest guys wearing them. Many were gay, but some macho Celtic SCA types liked them too, as a variation on a kilt. The whole thing was gone by 94, or maybe I just stopped paying attention, given the unfolding horrors that plague us still. Looking back, just another part of the H. Clinton PC years that provoked such a backlash from the rest of the country. It may be that we're trying again to enter such a period. Everything is a mixture.

Give me the skinny jeans and Twist caps any day. With a 42 waist, please. Now that's fashion.

You just hit several of the points of the fifty-state strategy. It's why Obama's opening offices in states like Alaska and South Carolina. Wherever you look there are economic problems, fear for the family, and general discontent.

All praise to the hallowed Howard Dean, who diagnosed this four years ago. O's friend Rahm Emmanuel would have tried to win without leaving the Chicago suburbs.

Great art is a lie that tells the truth.

Which leaves out the fakers, and most other art too.

by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell's forces (remember Farhad Manjoo? I believe he's out of political reporting now), so it's a little inconvenient to admit it now. Blackwell is out of power now, spending most of his time raising money to defend the numerous lawsuits against him (a little Wikipedia research bonus: his one book was "coauthored" by Jerome Corsi), and Ted Strickland, the very popular new Democratic governor, is from that Appalachian region Rove is so concerned about.

Is the 50-state strategy worth the money? It's always been a sore point with the Clintons, Rahm Emmanuel and the DLC, who never thought it was a good idea to engage the whole country -- might get some answers they didn't like. The 2006 election told the tale on this. I know I'm looking forward to seeing the results of a full-scale election conducted along the same lines.

One last contribution to Salon's July Abba adulation: like a lot of other creepy old white guys (not that there's anything wrong with that), John McCain loves those blue-eyed disco pushers. Any more to say?

One name Obama mentioned that frequently gets left off the media lists, though: Nina Simone. He's got my vote just for knowing who she was.

Oh, no, I'm not....

Short answer to your headline: no. Add your own expletive.

Most popular story on the Huffington Post: John McCain pushed (that is shoved) a woman in a wheelchair. Not down a flight of stairs, but into the wall of a Congressional hallway because she irritated him. This after he reportedly pulled back his hand to strike her, then thought better of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/report-mccain-pushed-woma_n_124615.html

Fiction just can't keep up, notwithstanding that Koch is approximately as crazy as Giuliani, though both seem somewhat normal next to McCain. Lucky New York. Lucky country. Most of the people who have been on the receiving end of McNasty's temper have been Republicans, and the woman in the wheelchair was the mother of a POW-MIA, not exactly a screaming liberal. You'd think they'd wise up.

As for Widmark, he was not only a great actor (AA nomination for Tommy Udo) but a Democrat and a liberal. His film credits included Judgement at Nuremburg, Cheyenne Autumn and the atomic end-of-the-world fable The Bedford Incident, which he also produced. Wonder how he'd like being compared to Giuliani, let alone McCain.

Anderson is pretty much forgotten except by other writers, which is a shame. As Bayard notes in the first paragraph, Anderson's modern style, the first departure from Henry James, and concern with "ordinary" Americans prefigured just about all the better known writers of the twentieth century. His contemporaries were less Hemingway and Faulkner than H.L. Mencken and Ben Hecht.

This book seems to tread the line between fiction and nonfiction so closely that I wasn't sure just from reading the review whether it was a novel or not. (It is.) I know I'd rather read a historical work with real figures novelized into it Gore Vidal-style than one full of "fictional" characters whose identity you're supposed to guess at, the way Harold Robbins made so much money and still destroyed his career.

This sounds like a reader, something for the days after the election. Its tone reminds me of "Big Trouble," the classic of western murder whose author, Anthony Lukas, figured tragically in Bayard's last review, "Blue Genes." "Big Trouble" is a horribly long but totally compelling book. I hope this one is the same, only a little more concise. Any book you kill yourself over can't be called a total success.

A poster on Steve Benen's Washington Monthly column just asked "....where are all those people who posted here four years ago, arguing that the democrats should give up on the south completely?" I told him they were all over at Salon, reading Thomas Schaller.

Is it Delawareans or Delawarites? Delaweenians was never in it.

Prior to his deployment to Iraq, Beau Biden served as Delaware's Attorney General. He's smart, well-spoken and ridiculously popular with female political activists. One case of a political dynasty that should be enouraged.