By Frank Rich New Times July 11, 1975 When I was in California last summer, hanging around the old Selznick studio in Culver City where Mike Nichols was making The Fortune, I heard the word “wonderful” more times in ten days than I had heard it in my entire life....
By Charles P. Pierce The National Sports Daily December 21, 1990 The summer people go home before the sky grows all muscular with the clouds that will bring the first snow down upon Chisago County in Minnesota. They are all gone by then—all the happy children, and the...
By W.C. Heinz From What a Time It Was 2001 We were sitting in the living room of a hotel suite in Chicago, and it was about nine o’clock at night. Rocky Graziano was sitting in an easy chair, with his legs over one of the arms. He had on slacks and a T-shirt, and he...
By Brad Darrach People December 4, 1974 A prissy, old-fashioned maiden wakes from a swoon to see a corpse-colored giant with a large zipper in down at her prostrate form. Frankenstein’s monster! And, what’s even scarier, the monster is unzipping a zipper that is not...
By David Hirshey The Daily News Sunday Magazine March 15, 1981 In his new Oscar-baiting film, Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet plays a ping pong prodigy who, much like the actor’s 2024 Oscar-nominated performance as young Bob Dylan, is a complete unknown. Well,...
By Stephen Fried Philadelphia Magazine September 1998 When the subject of how he got control of his father’s multibillion-dollar business finally comes up, Martin Grass tugs at his contrasting collar and averts his eyes. For a 44-year-old, his eyes are prematurely...
By Wendy Wasserstein New York Woman March 1988 Teri Garr shows up for lunch wearing a plaid flannel shirt, a blue Benettonish sweater and a pair of slacks. It’s the very same ensemble I once saw on Mariel Hemingway in the Russian Tea Room. I remember thinking at that...
By Tony Kornheiser New Times November 27, 1978 Because my car is a 1972 Pinto it may also be a final tribute to me. Film at 11. My Pinto—“Charro”—gets 22 miles per gallon highway, 17 miles per gallon city. It gets 0 miles per gallon sitting in my driveway, where I...
By John Berendt From Telling It Like It Was 1969 In the summer of 1968, John Berendt, a young associate editor of Esquire, accompanied three members of that magazine’s unusual team of reporters to the Democratic National Convention, held that year in Chicago: Jean...
By Joe Flaherty The New York Times January 23, 1972 It’s a fact, sophistication aside, that the publishing industry is as trendy as the garment industry. And its real motive is the same—to sell. We have witnessed the Kennedy Season, the Black Season (basic or...
By Harry Stein The Stacks Reader July 1973 Harry Stein’s father, Joseph Stein, is most famous for writing Fiddler on the Roof; he also worked in the legendary writers room for Sid Caesar in the 1950s, which included Mel Brooks. In the summer of 1973, Harry found...
By Frank Rich New Times September 16, 1973 With his latest movie, The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman is once again asking for trouble—and once again there’s every reason to believe he’s going to get it. In the American film industry, this director is the ultimate...
