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{NY Times} {Salon} {Parenting/Family Life} {LA Times} {LA Weekly} {LA Magazine} {Essays} {Inside} {Early Newspaper Work} {Miscellaneous} NY Times This Summer, One Formula Fits All A reported essay for Sunday Arts & Leisure on how big summer Hollywood movies are now created and marketed to both adults and children. These movies constitute a new kid-adult hybrid that operates on multiple levels, weaving adult themes into kid movies and making the yearning for childhood an explicit theme of adult-targeted films. Published on page one of Arts & Leisure, May 14, 2006 Television Without Pity Front page Sunday Arts & Leisure feature on the smuttiness of television writers’ rooms. Great fun to report and blast to write, coming as it did amidst the slog of writing book… Published in The New York Times on October 17, 2005. I Don’t Want to Grow Up Feature for the Sunday Style section of the NY Times about “rejuveniles,” adults dedicated to indulging their inner child. From adult readers of Harry Potter to hipsters in Converse sneakers and Sesame Street T-shirts, a whole new breed of grown up is redefining maturity. Published in the New York Times on August 31, 2003 Is the Pope Catholic… Enough? Feature for New York Times Magazine about Mel Gibson and his connection to an ultraconservative Catholic splinter group. Published in the New York Times Magazine on March 9, 2003 He’s Taking a Walkabout on the Wild Side Brief profile of Steve Irwin, host of “The Crocodile Hunter.” This was one of the first major media stories written about Irwin, who was just as hyper and cartoon-like on the phone as he is on TV. Published in the New York Times on August 22, 1999 People Just Strange Enough to Be Real Feature about two new documentary programs including “First Person,” the half-hour interview show created by the great Errol Morris. Published in the New York Times on March 19, 2000 Jaleel White (’Don’t Call Me Urkel’) Grows Up Cover story for TV section about former child star and his struggle to rid himself of the “Urkel factor.” I went in skeptical, but couldn’t help but like the guy. Published in the New York Times on August 22, 1999 Page 1 of 1 pages © 2006 Christopher Noxon design by Hop Studios