Arts and Entertainment

Beauty and the Beastly Beauty and the Beastly

Jean Clair, director of the Musée Picasso in Paris and widely respected both as scholar and art critic, has for some years been out of sympathy with contemporary art. Wh...

Apr 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

According to Doyle According to Doyle

Which Booker Prize-winner could give Hollywood the boot in the arse it needs and secretly craves? Roddy Doyle, that's who. His Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The...

Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks

I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies          --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...

Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

The Black Box The Black Box

OK, no Lifelines, no 50-50s, no Audience Participation if you want to be a millionaire: Name the first great African-American sitcom of the New Millennium... Correct! The 2000 pre...

Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson

Matinee Idols Matinee Idols

Farai Chideya, Christopher Hitchens, Barney Frank, Susan Brownmiller, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt, Slavoj Zizek and Arthur Danto on their favorite screen stars.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Reelpolitics Reelpolitics

Cinematic activism is enjoying a comeback.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Alissa Quart

Will Jodie Whitewash Leni? Will Jodie Whitewash Leni?

Hitler's filmmaker is Foster's fixation.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wallace

Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Our Mobsters, Ourselves Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis

Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue

THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind

While the Academy Slept While the Academy Slept

The strange career of the documentary Oscar.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley

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