Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files
The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Craven Idolatry Craven Idolatry
For someone who misspent his youth in film societies and revival houses, where mushrooms develop more readily than social skills, a job as a movie reviewer wonderfully eases the ...
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
To Her, With Love To Her, With Love
I like a filmmaker who walks you into a story.
Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Original Valley Girl The Original Valley Girl
Bette Midler got her first starring role in the movies in 1979, playing the lead in The Rose, a thinly disguised biopic about Janis Joplin.
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Earth in the Balance Earth in the Balance
Anonymous is a landscape architect. Not for these placemakers the recognition given to their peers in building. Planners may stand side by side with mayors boasting of some grand...
Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay
As Maine Goes, So Goes… As Maine Goes, So Goes…
Frederick Wiseman's latest film, Belfast, Maine, is having its New York premiere in the best possible setting, as the opening feature in a full retrospective of his work.
Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Was It Good Party Music? Was It Good Party Music?
Lionel Trilling once commented that "if ever we want to remind ourselves of the nature and power of art, we have only to think of how accurate reactionary governments are in thei...
Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Eichler
Ungood Fellas Ungood Fellas
The last decade of the twentieth century was not a happy one for the Mafia.
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / George De Stefano
Rain Man Rain Man
In his novel A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone invents this old American saying: "Mickey Mouse will see you dead." I have spent many profitable hours mulling over that coinage; an...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The Last Uprising’ ‘The Last Uprising’
At the time of writing, Carl Bromley had just returned from a pilgrimage to Truffaut's grave in Paris.
Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley