Matinee Idols Matinee Idols
Farai Chideya, Christopher Hitchens, Barney Frank, Susan Brownmiller, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt, Slavoj Zizek and Arthur Danto on their favorite screen stars.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Fallen Idols Fallen Idols
In many instances, those who fetishize holy objects or sacred places are the very ones who exhibit the most depraved indifference to human life.
Mar 15, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Stockman Returneth Stockman Returneth
Twenty years ago this season, when another new Republican President arrived in Washington to push for massive income-tax reductions, I was having breakfast every other Saturday mo...
Mar 15, 2001 / William Greider
Long Live Indie Film Long Live Indie Film
Reports of its demise are exaggerated.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Geoffrey Gilmore
Taking Care of Business Taking Care of Business
The corporate class is flying high in Washington. With George W. Bush--CEO style and all--in the White House and the Republicans controlling Congress, the business community has b...
Mar 15, 2001 / The Editors
Residual Anger Residual Anger
Hollywood unions on the brink.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
Hollywood’s Big Sleep Hollywood’s Big Sleep
With negotiations between the Writers Guild and some of Hollywood's major film studios and TV networks at an impasse as the May 1 deadline nears, putting the panic of a strike in...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Raymond Chandler
While the Academy Slept While the Academy Slept
The strange career of the documentary Oscar.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue
THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Mangler-in-Chief Mangler-in-Chief
Last month, the Boston Globe broke the amazing news that President George W. Bush is rapidly becoming the Pericles of modern politics.
Mar 13, 2001 / Ken Silverstein