Culture

Shud He Have Been a Contendah? Shud He Have Been a Contendah?

The inevitable controversy--presenting name-naming film director Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award--has unfolded like an accident waiting to happen, aggravating the A...

Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Cliff Rothman

American Graffiti American Graffiti

It's true--and a cliché--that Hollywood films hold up a mirror to American society. It's equally true--and equally a cliché--that Hollywood films fail to reflect Am...

Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield

On Movies, Money & Politics On Movies, Money & Politics

The Nation asked six politically active members of the entertainment community to comment on recent developments in the realms of politics and popular culture.

Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind

Part of Our Time, Too Part of Our Time, Too

Given the late Dalton Trumbo's various claims to verbal fame--highest-paid screenwriter of his day, most vocal member of the Hollywood Ten, polemicist extraordinaire, winner und...

Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dalton Trumbo and Murray Kempton

Feminine Mystiquers Feminine Mystiquers

For Danielle Crittenden, the "click" came when she was going to play tennis with her husband and a couple of acquaintances. She left her racket on one side of the court.

Mar 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Montale as Couplet Montale as Couplet

The publication of Jonathan Galassi's translation and meticulous annotation of Eugenio Montale's Collected Poems, 1920-1954 has been justifiably celebrated on both sides of the ...

Mar 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Mewshaw

Correspondance School Art Correspondance School Art

If we think of a historical period as defined by what the French have usefully designated a mentalité--a shared set of attitudes, practices and beliefs--then periods end ...

Mar 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Too Many Cigarettes Too Many Cigarettes

Monday: Screening of Garry Marshall's The Other Sister, which seems to be about a goldfish.

Mar 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

A Partisan’s Review A Partisan’s Review

In A Partisan View, one of the many memoirs in which score-settling refugees from the glory days of the anti-Stalinist, pro-Modernist quarterly bite each other on their kneecap...

Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

Screendance Screendance

I grew up on dance films, although they weren't known as such; they were called musicals.

Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Valerie Gladstone

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