Arts & Culture
Rushdie, Pamuk Kiss and Make Up After Tiny Tiff
On Friday night, Salman Rushdie was talking about Dorothy—that is, the Dorothy portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz.
Her mantra—“There’s noplace like home!”—is apparently not shared by the literary superstar whose 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, was banned in his native India and resulted in a fatwa against him.
Just How 'Indie' Is The New York Film Festival?
Late last night in the front room of O’Neals Restaurant at West 64th Street and Broadway, director Ira Sachs was explaining the importance of the New York Film Festival.
“A commitment to cinema—over a long period of time—as an art form,” the 42-year-old director said, was the hallmark of the festival, which for the first time was presenting his work, the film Married Life, starring Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper and Rachel McAdams.
“To me, that’s something that’s been lost in the independent movement, which is something that I came out of, which is to think of film in the same context as a painting, or a photograph, or a ballet, or the Met, or whatever else it may be that is artful in cinema that is significant in itself,” Mr. Sachs said.
In Mid-Gig Newsbreak, Arcade Fire Swears Off New York 'For A Few Years'
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"I know we come to New York a lot, but this is going to be the last time for a few years," Win Butler told the crowd at Randall's Island during their performance there yesterday. "So let's have a good time tonight."
Some reports of 'boos' from the crowd did not seem to detract from the fan frenzy at the show, for which The Arcade Fire shared a bill with local favorites LCD Soundsystem (and also Les Savy Fav and Blonde Redhead.)
October 12, 2007
At Kid Rock Party, Country Crooner Sings to Drea De Matteo's Fetus
Rick Sanchez Is CNN’s Teflon Man!
Brolin is Rollin’! Son of James, Hubby of Dishy Diane Lane, In Bid For Stand-Alone Stardom
Bridget Zones! Fashionista’s Brightest Star Admits Public Peeing Problem; Assesses Future On Seventh Avenue
Hollywood Hugs Beta Males of Law
Better on the Box: Colbert Book Bombs
Doree Shafrir
The Best Listener in America
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has 13 recordings of Richard Strauss’s opera, two cats, a husband and a new book.
Gillian Reagan
Queen Tee: The Designer Who’s Beating the Boys
Married to the MOB’s Leah McSweeney has a baby girl, a penchant for fights and a company that makes skate kids mad.
Meredith Bryan
Battle of the Bags
Along with her fancy leather designer purse, every New York woman needs a knockabout nylon tote into which she can toss the day’s detritus. And the current champ is … Longchamp’s classic Pliage! Mais pourquoi?
Gillian Reagan
Jake Paltrow’s Night Light
Jake Paltrow, the 32-year-old brother of willowy actress Gwyneth is the writer-director of the new independent film The Good Night.
On the Town
I Blanch at Blanchett! Cate’s Golden Age Is, Alas, Damnably Dull
Talented actors are thoroughly wasted in this plodding, pageantlike and punishing sequel to Elizabeth.
At the Movies
Crazy in Love! Gosling Glows as Man Committed to Plastic Doll
If only the whole world were as understanding as the weird midwest town of Lars and the Real Girl.
At the Theater
Who’s Conning Who? Rebeck Does Mamet Lite
Theresa Rebeck’s new play Mauritius has just opened at the Biltmore on Broadway—why?
Dining Out
Play It Again, Sandro
The Umbrian Giant, fan club in tow, settles into a cozy storefront on the Upper East Side.
Currently Hanging
Abstract, Domestic
Latin American artists walked the line between native tradition and global Modernism.
Book Review
Rapacious Rudy, Divine Dancer and Lifelong Émigré
I have a dance colleague who complains that there’s too much about sex in Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life, and another who says that there isn’t enough.
Book Review
A Mind Under Attack: Schizophrenic’s Memoir Brings Sanity to the Page
The Center Cannot Hold is not a literary work. But it’s a brave book that demystifies a very confusing and bizarre illness.
Book Review
A Royal Appetite for Books
The delights of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader begin with its title, a gentle but deft play on words, and flow forth in easeful perfection for the 120 pages that follow.
Book Review
Better on the Box: Colbert Book Bombs
"Stephen Colbert" has become one of the most richly textured characters on television. Sadly, none of that makes I Am America (And So Can You!) worth reading.
Begley the Bookie
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of October 15th, 2007
Melvin Jules Bukiet on the recipe for “Brooklyn Books of Wonder” in The American Scholar; Arthur Goldwag’s All the Movements, Ideologies, and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World; David Pratt’s The Impossible Takes Longer.
Sunday Crossword
Sunday Crossword
The theme of this Sunday's crossword by Merle Reagle is "Puzzle with a Twist." Click here to play.
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