In 1976, when I read “Who’s Who in the Cast,” by Marshall Brickman, I was astounded. The piece, a “casual”—which is what…
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CULTURE
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Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was the second…
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Before I became a journalist, I got a Ph.D. in Russian literature. I don’t miss academia, but I do miss my Moscow…
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By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable. Trump opened…
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Like many employees of Ed and the F.S.A., Gittleman had her critiques of the system. “A society should not be forcing people…
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Candy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home town and…
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Brad Karp’s cellphone rang on the evening of Tuesday, March 18th. It was the President of the United States. Karp, the chairman…
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Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely worth a…
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Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during the early…