PAUL NEWMAN, NATASHA RICHARDSON & LAUREN BACALL, 1999
Paul Newman, Natasha Richardson and Lauren Bacall, enroute to a party for Talk magazine, August 1999. Photograph by Daffyd Jones. Found on Jeff Wells‘s site Hollywood Elsewhere.
REENACTING: HARMLESS PASTTIME OR EVIL HOBBY?
My friend Josh Green of The Atlantic created quite a splash this past week by revealing that Rich Iott(pictured, second from right), the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio’s 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments. As Josh reports, Iott was …
GAME ONE STUNNER!
Down 5-1, the Rangers looking capable and confident, C.J. Wilson pitching the game of his life, the Yankees strike. Gardner beats out a slow roller with a head-first slide. Jeter doubles, scoring Gardner. Score is 5-2. Rangers change pitchers. Swisher walks. Teixiera walks. Rangers change pitchers. On the first pitch, Rodriguez smashes a grounder to …
SLOWLY I TURNED. . .
Last night I had the pleasure of acting as the emcee of a panel held at The Writing Center of Hunter College featuring The Kings and Queens of Suspense, where I tossed questions to the best-selling authors Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block and one of my particular favorites, Alan Furst (above). Some …
PRIVACY ISN’T DEAD, JUST MISPLACED
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article in Slate about the changing nature of privacy. There’s less for you and me, and more for corporations and groups. “Once upon a time,” she writes, “you had to be a person to assert a right to personal privacy. But more and more it seems that the demand for …
BAD SEX, PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH
According to an article in The Telegraph, Tony Blair‘s memoir, A Journey, is under consideration for “the least coveted prize in literature”– The Bad Sex Prize, which is presented annually to the author who has done the worst job writing about sex. Previous winners include Sebastian Faulks and Philip Kerr. Blair has been catapulted into …
BIG RED
We went to see the film Secretariat yesterday. It was a fairly standard sports story, full of the usual sports story pleasures–a plucky lead character, colorful supporting characters, beautiful pictures of competition. Diane Lane and James Cromwell had some swell scenes involving business dealings. The big let down for me came when they showed Secretariat …