Boys, Toys and Girl Trouble in 1999’s Top Ten Boys, Toys and Girl Trouble in 1999’s Top Ten

It was, of course, predestined that the top-grossing movie of 1999 would be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, which outstripped its closest competition by nearly $200 mill...

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ella Taylor

The Awful Truth The Awful Truth

Special thanks to Alison Mann.

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Manohla Dargis

Independents’ Day Independents’ Day

The most important day in the history of American independent film was May 8, 1947, which witnessed the opening of a picture so personal--no, so heedlessly self-revelatory--that ...

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

All the President’s Mien All the President’s Mien

Leon Aron, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has over the past few years become known as an authority on Boris Yeltsin, a man he patently likes and has vig...

Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg

Planetary Realignments Planetary Realignments

Last night a teenager killed himself below my bedroom window. I heard it happen: first a crescendo of police sirens coming up the avenue at two in the morning, then a crash.

Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Executioners’ Songs Executioners’ Songs

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