Dissecting the mainstream.

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• Billy Crystal The comedian as grief counselor.
  Bryan Curtis Dec. 15, 2004
  
• Michael Crichton Planet Earth's novelist of doom.
  Bryan Curtis Dec. 8, 2004
  
• Tom Brokaw It's not his journalism you love.
  Bryan Curtis Dec. 2, 2004