50 years ago, in a standup comedy routine, Woody Allen sketched out the idea...

... that would become the much-loved 2011 movie "Midnight in Paris": (Via Kyle Buchanan .)

"Your father blew pot smoke in your face when you were 4, encouraged a girl he was dating..."

"... to take your virginity when you were 11 and was present when you first did coke at 13. He once said, 'Obviously most people ar...

"Justice Anthony M. Kennedy... said he aspired to Ernest Hemingway’s stripped-down language..."

Talk about falling short of your aspirations! Of all the Justices on the Court today, I find that Justice Kennedy writes in the least strai...

"Meetings between great men don't always result in elevated colloquies; sometimes they tend towards the crudely basic."

For example: When Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald met in Paris, at Le Dingo Bar on the rue Delambre in April 1925, Hemingway was disco...