Nick Hornby
About A Boy
Riverhead, 320 pp., $ 22.95
In one respect at least, Britain is still the land of Shakespeare, Fielding, and Dickens: It still regularly...
SUNDAY, MAY 24. I'm at an old movie house in Brooklyn, the kind that people used to call a "nabe" -- a neighborhood theater, far removed from the grand palaces downtown, where moviegoers...
You have to excuse America's movie critics for going a little overboard when a movie like The Truman Show opens. After all, they see many more films than anyone else, and when you spend...
Steven Spielberg wants you to know that War is Hell. In service of this profoundly original idea, which no one has had the courage or wisdom to express before, he has given birth to Saving...
On a brilliant August morning on a waterway west of Seattle off Puget Sound, I find myself deep inside the USS Ohio, the oldest (18 years) of the nation's Trident submarines. The Ohio...
The title, A Man in Full, is the first of many brilliant strokes in Tom Wolfe's rich, crazy, flawed, and deeply moving new novel. A Man in Full is, first and last, a meditation about...
Movie critics don't like the new Star Wars movie -- or perhaps it's better to say that they were so sick of hearing about it, they heartily wished the picture ill from the moment it began....
Hollywood comedies have been undergoing a bizarre metamorphosis in the past few years: They are turning into horror films. You cannot watch them without, at some point, covering your...
One of the great showbiz adages came from the febrile mind of quipster playwright George S. Kaufman, who said, "Satire closes on Saturday night." Kaufman meant that it's almost impossible...
The most striking recent evidence that mystical and supernatural forces may be at play in America is this: The best movie of the year is a horror flick starring Bruce Willis as a psychiatrist....
New York
WE'RE STILL nine months away from the day when voters get to cast even a primary vote in the contest to fill Pat Moynihan's Senate seat. Neither of the two expected...
In the forgotten 1979 film Natural Enemies, the narrator informs the audience, "My life stretched out before me like a bad movie" -- to which the critic Renata Adler responded, "It is...
The world of the theater has ever been the source of great and wacky backstage stories, and one of the greatest and wackiest came about in 1937, when a twenty-two-year-old impresario...
There's a 73-year-old guy, born in East Harlem and named Salvatore Lombino, who writes under two different noms de plume. One of those names -- either Evan Hunter or Ed McBain -- is now...
Has there ever been an American subculture as benign as that shared by the fans of the 1960s television series Star Trek? Its members don't hurt anybody, they don't make a mess, and they...
Walter Matthau, who turns eighty this year, has been appearing on screen for forty-five years. There's something shocking about that, for Matthau doesn't seem like a creature from Hollywood's...
Of all those whom Bill Clinton has seduced and abandoned and then seduced and abandoned and then seduced and abandoned again -- always with the promise of another seduction -- the Hollywood...
IN A SENATE RACE between two of the most famous political figures in America, it may come down to this: By November, will New Yorkers be more afflicted with Clinton...
At some point in the past few years, a screenwriter named Stuart Blumberg went to a meeting with Hollywood bigwigs and delivered a pitch that went something like this: "See, there's this...
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 361 pp., $ 26
Blue Angel
by Francine Prose
HarperCollins, 304 pp., $ 25
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Viking,...
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