Crouching Tiger Crouching Tiger
Being Stanley Crouch is about as bruising a vocation as there is in what passes for--or remains of--polite literary society.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Notes of a Native Daughter Notes of a Native Daughter
The title does neither the book nor its author any favors.
Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Poisoned Ivy Poisoned Ivy
Much as I hate to, I'm going to start by talking about the damn money. I'm only doing it because almost everyone else is. It's not just the author profiles and publishing-trad...
Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It
Black filmmakers seize the moment.
Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West
You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee
Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour