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www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
New York City

Richard E. Snyder, 93, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights

Richard E. Snyder, the imperious publishing executive who built Simon & Schuster into the nation's largest book publisher, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.He was 90.The cause was heart failure, said his son Matthew, who lives in California and had moved his father there as his health declined from sepsis and other problems.
Washington Post
10 months ago
DC food

Review | 'You Hurt My Feelings': Relationship comedy perfection

Tobias Menzies, left, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in "You Hurt My Feelings."(Jeong Park/A24 Films) (4 stars) Early on in "You Hurt My Feelings," a therapist named Don (Tobias Menzies) is wrapping up a Zoom session with a client.After noting that they're making real progress, Don starts to log off, before hearing his patient mutter, "God, what an idiot."
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
NYC parents

You Never Know, You Might Learn Something

Cassandra Jackson was in her 30s when she first encountered the expression replacement child, and it took her breath away.Coined by psychologists in the '60s to describe a son or daughter conceived to fill the void after another child's death, the term is the closest I will come, Jackson writes in her anguished, affecting memoir, THE WRECK: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother (Viking, 307 pp., $28), to a name for what I am.
www.theguardian.com
10 months ago
Books

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer review what's your cancellation policy?

Claire Dederer is a journalist from Seattle and the author of two memoirs, the most well known of which is Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.In 2017, she wrote a piece for the Paris Review entitled What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men? in which she described the experience of rewatching the early films of Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan) in the context of the allegations of abuse made against him by his adopted daughter, Dylan.
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023 | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Festivals & Awards
Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for SBIFF

"Working with her was a revelation," he said.Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for SBIFF Of this year's SBIFF honorees, Jamie Lee Curtis perhaps has had the most untraditional career.While she was the daughter "two bonafide movie stars- Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh"-she originally planned to be a police officer.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Douglas McGrath, Playwright, Filmmaker and Actor, Dies at 64

Douglas McGrath, a playwright, screenwriter, director and actor who was nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony Award, and whose one-man Off Broadway show, Everything's Fine, opened just weeks ago, died on Thursday at his office in Manhattan.He was 64.His death was announced by the show's producers, Daryl Roth, Tom Werner and John Lithgow.
Document Journal
1 year ago
Music

La Femme defies expectations on 'Teatro Lucido'

After years of travel in Spain and Mexico, the band mixes its signature psych-pop style with flamenco and Spanish lyrics for a commentary-as-comedy effect

The Phrygian musical mode is a flexible key.It can invoke Andalusian bullfighting, Yom Kippur, or Aladdin, and with just a slight adjustment of the fingers, a skilled practitioner can travel between moods.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Writing

Sloane Crosley: 'I don't think America deserved a birthday party this year'

loane Crosley, 42, is best known for her droll, acerbic personal essays.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Arts

When art you love was made by 'Monsters': A critic lays out the 'Fan's Dilemma'

Last month, I gave a talk at a conference in honor of the late writer Norman Mailer.When I mentioned this conference in class to my Georgetown students, a couple of them blurted out, "But, he stabbed his wife."I could feel the mood in that classroom shifting: The students seemed puzzled, disappointed even.
Eater NY
1 year ago
NYC food

Keith McNally Claims to Have Banned Comedian James Corden From Balthazar

Keith McNally, the provocative restaurateur behind Manhattan restaurants Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Balthazar, appears to have banned British comedian James Corden from the latter restaurant for mistreating its workers over multiple visits.
Document Journal
10 months ago
Writing

Claire Dederer's 'Monsters' is a story about us

Cover of 'Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma' by Claire Dederer
The author set out to write a book about the art of monstrous men-in the process, she rendered a complex portrait of humanity

When you hear the word genius, who comes to mind: Picasso?Woody Allen?Roman Polanski?Michael Jackson?Are these names swiftly followed by words like "rape" and "molestation" and "womanizing," or are you able to compartmentalize their actions pursuit of that elusive and often-prescribed mandate: to separate the art from the artist?
Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

Review | 'Bros,' the first big-studio R-rated gay rom-com, is for everyone

"Go, LGBTQ people!"Billy Eichner crowed at the packed premiere of "Bros" at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Spain news

Folly or art? Catalonian town buys labyrinthine Espai Corbero for 3m

Like a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corberó near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed "without plans, obeying only space and poetry".
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Christina Ricci acepta su yo autentico

La actriz, quien creció en el ojo público, encuentra por fin en 'Yellowjackets' el papel que buscaba.
Credit... Daniel Jack Lyons para The New York Times
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles Rams

Roger Angell, admired for his eloquent essays on baseball, has died

Roger Angell, a guiding hand to many of the New Yorker magazine's most distinguished contributors for more than half a century and a widely admired writer in his own right, primarily for his eloquent, insightful essays on baseball, has died.
Fatherly
5 years ago
Fathers

No Matter What Soon-Yi Previn Says, Woody Allen is Still a Creep

Soon-Yi Previn has broken her silence on her marriage to Woody Allen in a recent profile from New York magazine.
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