Email Author Brendan Bernhard

2002 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• Do Two Rights Make a Wrong?

  published December 19, 2002

  Pat Buchanan is making trouble again. We‘re used to “Pitchfork Pat,” the barnstorming conservative contrarian ready to unleash his army... More >>

• Minus 10

  published December 19, 2002

  So how‘s 24 doing? We’re about a quarter of the way into this year‘s series, presuming it goes the distance, and we’ve known for six epis... More >>

• The Road to Baghdad

  published December 5, 2002

  And the making of CNN Live From Baghdad, which premieres Saturday, December 7, on HBO at 8 p.m., pits a hyperkinetic American news... More >>

• David and Golgotha

  published November 21, 2002

  Photo by Ron Batzdorff LARRY DAVID IS THE PHILIP ROTH OF situation comedy, unafraid to reveal just how devious, petty, annoying,... More >>

• As the World Turns

  published November 7, 2002

  Naif that I am, I always assumed that the term ”news,“ as it pertains to television, suggested a series of reports carefully selected for the... More >>

• New and Improv-ed

  published October 24, 2002

  Photo by Danny Feld IT'S NOT OFTEN YOU SEE A PERFORMER REALLY have fun on a sitcom. But Second City alumnus Bonnie Hunt, who plays the host of... More >>

• L.A. Reverential

  published October 10, 2002

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• Sex & Beauty, Art & Kitsch

  published September 19, 2002

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• From Requiem to Rave...

  published August 22, 2002

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• Head Games

  published August 15, 2002

  Oblivious, “the game show you don‘t even know you’re on,” as it bills itself, is a sneakily funny look at middle-class American life, w... More >>

• The Twitching Detective

  published August 1, 2002

  In one of the early episodes of The Shield, FX‘s seething, testosterone-fueled cop show, there’s a bit in which stodgy Lieutenant Wagenbach ... More >>

• Text and the City

  published July 25, 2002

  If we could all fail so well. That, I imagine, is the reaction many readers will have to How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, British... More >>

• Bolshie Ballet

  published July 11, 2002

  Illustration by Bill Smith IT WAS ON PAGE 24 OF THE ADVANCE UNCORRECTED proofs of Martin Amis' Koba the Dread: Laughter and the... More >>

• It's Over!

  published July 11, 2002

  FIFA BROUGHT OUT ITS WORLD CUP ALL-STAR list, and France's Zinedine Zidane was nowhere to be found on it. Nor were Argentina's Juan-Sebastian... More >>

• Heading Toward 2006

  published July 4, 2002

  Chalk it up to soccer’s perversity that the game in which the U.S. best displayed its newfound mastery of World Cup soccer was the game i... More >>

• American Fútbol!

  published June 27, 2002

  NICK HORNBY SAID THAT GOALS ARE EVEN BETTER than orgasms. You know when you're about to have an orgasm, he wrote in Fever... More >>

• Extreme Games

  published June 20, 2002

  At exactly 3:30 a.m. on June 5th, I punched the “mute” button on my remote and listened to the sound of America sleeping. The U.S. had ju... More >>

• Games Without Frontiers

  published June 13, 2002

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• A Few Things You Should Know About the World Cup

  published June 6, 2002

  The World Cup was begun in 1930 and is held every four years. There have been 16 tournaments and only seven winners: France and... More >>

• Patriot Games

  published June 6, 2002

  "NATIONS," SAID ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN, "are the wealth of mankind. They are its generalized personalities: The smallest of them has its own... More >>

• Clean and Sober

  published May 30, 2002

  IN THE MIDST OF A PARTICULARLY FUTILE WRITING session -- the kind that proceeds at the rate of about three words an hour, usually misspelled... More >>

• Yukking Like Rabbits

  published May 2, 2002

  There’s an old racist joke that goes something like this: ”What‘s the difference between an ’X‘ and a ’Y‘ who pisses in the sink? ’X‘ ... More >>

• Behind The Shield

  published April 18, 2002

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• Smut Factory

  published April 11, 2002

  I ENJOY WATCHING BILL O'REILLY, BUT HE COMES off better on his own show, The O'Reilly Factor, than he does when he's let loose on the... More >>

• London Calling

  published April 4, 2002

  Interviewed for A&E‘s two-hour documentary valentine to the Big Apple, New York at the Movies, director Peter Bogdanovich (doing a fai... More >>