The Footlights’ Non-Glare The Footlights’ Non-Glare
At lunch with a colleague who is devoted to the theater, the discussion turned to Broadway and she mentioned she had seen the revival of On the Town, the buoyant 1944 Comd...
Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Shteir
Rear Windows Rear Windows
Said the comic gangster in Payback, misquoting an old saw, "Don't shit where you eat. Or, I mean, where you live. That's it.
Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Ellington Hits 100 Ellington Hits 100
On the eve of the New York premiere of his Symphony No.
Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Albert Murray
Two, Like, Star-Crossed Lovers Two, Like, Star-Crossed Lovers
When a young woman in high school frets about the folks in Mogadishu--when, for that matter, she can spell "Mogadishu"--American moviegoers know she needs a fashion makeover, a ...
Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Liberal Pilgrim’s Progress Liberal Pilgrim’s Progress
Time magazine once diagnosed newspaper columnist, author, professor-at-large and Hugh Hefner sidekick Max Lerner (190292) as suffering from a "crush on Americ...
Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
The Great Pumpkin The Great Pumpkin
Some years ago, after I had completed a biography of the radical writer Josephine Herbst, I gave serious thought to writing a biography of Whittaker Chambers.
Jan 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Elinor Langer
Revenge of the Pod People Revenge of the Pod People
Nobody asked me to spend my weekend watching movies about alien invasions--so for all I know, I might have been acting on promptings from an otherworldly force.
Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
History by the Letter History by the Letter
Whatever else the investigations of the President have uncovered, they have yielded thousands of sources--transcripts, letters, memos, audio- and videotapes--which Americans...
Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur
Curious George Talks the Market Curious George Talks the Market
The epic, slow-motion crisis unraveling the global economic system continues to gather momentum, taking down Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, now Brazil. Who's next?
Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
A Bend in the Color Line A Bend in the Color Line
Policy talk about a racialized "underclass" rests on social science research that often reproduces notions of racial difference, in an enormous tautology.
Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gerard Fergerson