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Cast members, unlike writers, were each provided with a car and driver to get to the after-parties—more specifically, with a gigantic black Cadillac Escalade SUV—and I’d arranged to ride along with Henrietta and her wife, Lisa.
Curtis Sittenfeld • Romantic Comedy: The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick by the author of RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE
Jason said, “‘Television is a medium because it’s neither rare nor well-done.’ Isn’t that how that saying goes?”
Curtis Sittenfeld • You Think It, I'll Say It: Ten scorching stories of self-deception by the Sunday Times bestselling author
“Klosterman is like pop culture’s version of Michael Moore, a zealot who simultaneously amuses and provokes…. Savvy and insightful.” —USA Today
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
These incidents of “political correctness,” amplified by right-wing media, whipped up hatred of elites out in Real America. The culture wars raged on, as bloody-minded and durable as the Thirty Years’ War, a full-employment program for pundits of every type. Some worried about a generation of ultra-sensitive children coddled by ultra-indulgent adul
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
As he films Seattle, transforming it into "Rain City," Rudolph is faced with the same decision: is he a realist or an expressionist, inventing the world or recording it? The moral and the aesthetic questions merge, as they must on the higher levels of art.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
With very few exceptions, video killed the American revival house. If you want to see a Boris Karloff movie, you have to rent it and watch it on a television set. In Paris it costs as much to rent a movie as it does to go to the theater. French people enjoy going out and watching their movies on a big screen. On any given week one has at least 250
... See moreDavid Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Disappearance of the Hit-Driven Business Model
“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway,” said Randall Jarrell, a pretty good critic himself. “What is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.”