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Article: Bubble Gum for the Brain: A Night at the Hotel Box Office.(Politics&Opinions)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2001
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Byline: Richard Brookhiser
I am not the target audience for summer blockbusters. I see movies erratically, and television hardly ever. But, like more than a few of the abstinent, I binge in secret. It happens generally when I am alone and depressed: in a Holiday Inn, after an out-of-town writing assignment, for instance. I have brought a book, but I can't read it; the coffee shop closed at 10 o'clock. The Medusa eye of the television stares at the foot of the bed, so I grab the remote. Spinning through the channels--the ballet of storm systems, Leno and Letterman, matchbox-size stock cars, yelling heads--makes me feel still more remote. Descartes worried that the ...