Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles correspondent. He lives in Malibu, and divides his time between the local beach and the Hollywood Hills. He headed out west in May 2008, and has being trying to make sense of the First City of Showbusiness ever since. You can track his every move at twitter.com/guyadams.
And so to the latest addition to the long, long list of things which are apparently considered too fruity for American television: the TV show Skins.
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Friday, 21 January 2011 at 4:21 am
I was intrigued, though not entirely surprised, to read allegations of impropriety levelled against the organisers of the Golden Globes by their former PR man, Michael Russell.
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Friday, 14 January 2011 at 6:11 am
I’m not sure what Mark Twain would have said about news that the latest edition of Huckleberry Finn has been edited by its publisher to remove all 219 uses of the word “nigger,” but I’m pretty sure his reaction would have ended up in a Dictionary of Quotations.
I also wouldn’t mind betting that the great [...]
By Guy Adams | Arts, Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 5 January 2011 at 7:18 am
If you can be bothered to read one lengthy piece of journalism today, make sure that it’s Time’s excellent profile of Mark Zuckerberg which has been published to coincide with the publication of that magazine’s “Person of the Year” edition.
By Guy Adams | Film, Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 16 December 2010 at 8:17 am
Few institutions provide a worse advertisement for America and its values than the shouty ladies and gentlemen who staff the local airport security facilities.
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 9 December 2010 at 7:22 am
The makers of Fiji Water appear to have about as much of an attention span as the air-headed celebrities who quaff their overpriced bottles of H2O.
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 1 December 2010 at 12:13 am
From her TLC show, it seems that the former Governor of Alaska has embellished her outdoorsy credentials in an effort to appeal to red-necked portions of the Republican movement
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 12 November 2010 at 7:59 am
The city’s real reason for trying to keep Jamie Oliver out of its schools is very simple: the city is too ashamed to allow America’s TV-watching public to see the deep-fried horrors it inflicts daily upon the children in its care
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 8 November 2010 at 4:06 am
Say what you like about Charlie Sheen, the old goat certainly doesn’t do things by halves.
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 27 October 2010 at 3:29 am
Joke writers on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s satirical TV shows aren’t the only left-leaning Americans who appear to be starting to benefit from the inexorable rise of the Tea Party movement.
More and more, as the US approach polling day in its mid-term elections, do you here cannier figures in Democrat circles talk of using [...]
By Guy Adams | Eagle Eye, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 6 October 2010 at 8:06 am
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