http://www.richardrushfield.com "The internet home of America's author, blogger and seer" Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:36:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have the honor of being anthologized with some of my favorite writes in a new collection edited by the great Anna David entitled Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching . I write, people will be shocked to learn, about American Idol, ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2010/04/i-am-anthologized-reality-matters/ Hampshire President Ralph Hexter wrote a letter about DFMIL. Doesn't appear to be a fan. His letter includes the line: "While I was not at Hampshire during the 1980s, colleagues and alumni who were have questioned the “composite” characters created by Rushfield. In reality, most students then pursued their education with ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2010/01/hampshires-president-responds-to-dfmil-and-i-respond-to-him/ The Gray Lady approves. Inevitable movie they say. You listening, Hollywood? http://www.richardrushfield.com/2010/01/the-new-york-times-review-for-dfmil/ Here's a link to a round table discussion I did with the BBC on the decade in celebrity along with a British publicist and author, and an Indian reporter. The discussion comes at about 50 minutes into this clip. http://www.richardrushfield.com/2010/01/bbc-interview-on-the-future-of-celebrity/ A couple nice reviews out there for Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost out across the internet. Patrick Brown at the The Millions begins This is the first book review I’ve written in nearly three years, since I hung up my reviewing socks following a stint at Publishers Weekly’s online division, where I ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2009/12/some-very-pleasant-reviews/ The Awl asked a bunch of media deadbeats like myself to remember a critical moment of the past decade. I stunned the world and myself by not making mine about Idol, but writing instead about my prior triumph, the hunt for lonelygirl. It begins: In 2006, as a reporter for a major ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2009/12/remembering-the-00s-my-hunt-for-lonelygirl15/ This week I returned to Hampshire College to read from my memoirs of the my long-forgotten time there, Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost. All in all a delightful visit and I especially enjoyed hearing from the current students their thoughts on the book. The crowd seemed about evenly ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2009/12/dont-follow-me-returns-to-hampshire-soil/ It has often been said that I don't like anything and in particular that I don't like any movies. To refute that, I have combed the past ten years and found 72 movies that I like enough to call them my top films of of the 00's. ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2009/12/my-top-72-films-of-the-decade/ As with everything in my life, the shadow of Blind Date blocks out all other light. Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com http://www.richardrushfield.com/2009/12/my-visit-to-the-red-eye/ I've got a piece up on The Daily Beast about the pressures of trying to write a memoir in this new social networking age when the past is online ready to chat all day and won't stand back far enough to let you form detached theories about it. ... http://www.richardrushfield.com/2009/11/memoiring-in-the-facebook-age/