Taking A Little Off The Top

"We really do find pleasure in other people being mocked and slammed. The other thing is that most people consider the whole celebrity culture a little pathological. And these kind of really raw acidic attacks on these individual celebrities, to some extent, are an indictment of celebrity culture in general."

-- Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of popular culture, commenting on Eminem's latest musical offerings - which we haven't heard and expect to be awful - but, even though we don't care for his later work, we'd be hypocrites if we didn't say we welcome Rap's White Lion back to the fold, in The New York Daily News.