Top of the Stack
Unrampling Charlotte
“To me life is just a rehearsal, and I’m bumbling through making a lot of mistakes, like everyone, but films are the moment when I can live out the pressures I feel.”
The Front Page
First Aid to Inebriates
“So far as I’m concerned, Bacchus was a lady. ”
Jonathan Demme’s Offbeat America
Jonathan Demme’s America is an international community, full of the voices, colors and music of the whole world; that America is finally hitting the movie screen.
Tales from the Cancer Cure Underground
In Which We Encounter Modern-day Alchemists, Prophets, Healers, Herbalists, Biomystics, Doctors of Metaphysics and Doctors of Medicine in Our Quest for the Ultimate Cure.
Damn Black Sox
Say it Ain’t So: The All-American Baseball Movie.
All Power, No Lunch
If Truman Capote was the Proust of Côte Basque, you could call Roy Cohn the Homer of Le Cirque.
Nice Guys Finish First
William Gildea—Gone but not forgotten.
“May I Kiss You on the Forehead, Sam?”
Wheeling and dealing with Sam Cohn.
Oedipus Rocks
“The pure products of America go crazy,” said William Carlos Williams. If that’s true, we might be grateful that nothing is pure anymore.
Why I Hate Parties
The Lament of a Social Leper.
Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia
The Age of Paranoia we’ve lived in for the last half century—the plague of suspicion, distrust, disinformation—is the true legacy of Kim Philby.
A Comedian of Guilt
“Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth looms as a wild blue shocker and the American novel of the sixties.
Catherine the Great
A visit with Catherine Deneuve, the face of France.