A Riot of Personality A Riot of Personality
The first time I saw Anna Deavere Smith, I realized a new meaning had been given to the term "body politic." She was appearing in Fires in the Mirror, her show about the conflict...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Acting for Justice Acting for Justice
The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
On Painting Reality On Painting Reality
We've got too many stimuli and not enough places to put them. And so, perhaps, we keep moving around the surplus excitement, sticking it onto this or that image, with the unint...
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rock in a Hard Place Rock in a Hard Place
Blessed with a pitch-perfect name for his métier, Lester Bangs wrote on the subject of rock music--writing, for him, being a matter of slamming two nouns together so the...
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The Ultimate Bad Review’ ‘The Ultimate Bad Review’
If our political parties insist on producing bad show business, then the least we should demand is that Hollywood make good movies.
Aug 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Flounder The Flounder
Long before I'd gone to a theater and lashed myself to a seat, I formed two expectations about The Perfect Storm.
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Smart and Smarter Smart and Smarter
In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey bullies a series of small children, gets into senseless fights (on the grounds that "he started it") and reverts hungrily to breast-feeding.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Columbo This Isn’t Columbo This Isn’t
The first thing I need to explain about Bruno Dumont's Humanité shouldn't have to be said at all. It's that the film is not a whodunit.
Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Tea Time Tea Time
Everyone knows you can't film Remembrance of Things Past, so Raúl Ruiz did it.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
To Catch a Thief To Catch a Thief
As Woody Allen awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Jackie Gleason.
Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans