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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Observercast

From ‘Downton’ to Golden Globes, It’s All Downhill

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BY FROMA HARROP “When it comes to torture,” Amy Poehler said Sunday night as she opened the Golden Globes award ceremony, “I trust a lady who spent three years married to James Cameron.” Yuk, yuk, YUCK. That same evening on PBS’s Downton Abbey, the Dowager Countess [Maggie Smith] admonished granddaughter Lady Sybil, “Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.” Now that was clever. I love Amy Poehler – who could not? – but her remark was […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.