David Thomson

David Thomson is the author of The Whole Equation: A History of
Hollywood, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and a book on Nicole
Kidman, to be published in September (all from Knopf). He lives in San Francisco.

The Sheltering Shy The Sheltering Shy

Satirist Alan Bennett's Untold Stories is a packed suitcase of a book by one of Britain's finest writers, exploring the ra

May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson

I Act, Therefore I Am I Act, Therefore I Am

Admired from a distance and reviled up close, Laurence Olivier could establish a relation with his audience that was like an infection. His official biography chronicles a personal...

Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson

An Appetite for Liebling An Appetite for Liebling

If we had four or five Abbott Joseph Lieblings in Iraq and Washington, it might be a different war, one in which those hugely amiable, observant and amusable souls could bring us...

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson

All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun

Colin MacCabe's new book is more a provocative polemic than a rounded biography, but it deserves the highest praise for being inspired by the belief that in the early 1960s Jean-...

Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson

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