Aha, someone else who reads Vanity Fair! It's been my literary crack for over ten years now - gossipy, yes, but well written, always interesting, and frequently very funny. And the editor, Graydon Carter, is one of the very people who's been out there beating the drums about what catastrophe the Bush administration has been from Day One.

As for movies...Brokeback Mountain was tragic and beautiful, and Gone With The Wind is a great movie from a mediocre book. And my "watch 'em till my eyes turn square films," you ask? James Bond, especially the ones with Connery, Dalton, and Brosnan.