The modern city dweller must suffer rats, cockroaches, the occasional snakefish and lately, it seems, the biting of bed bugs. Vermin of one kind or another is the price of living in Xanadu. In many ways, I mark the day I became a passable New Yorker when, while walking along Madison Square Park, my then-girlfriend Read More
The modern city dweller must suffer rats, cockroaches, the occasional snakefish and lately, it seems, the biting of bed bugs. Vermin of one kind or another is the price of living in Xanadu. In many ways, I mark the day I became a passable New Yorker when, while walking along Madison Square Park, my then-girlfriend Read More
One-Man Show
The two-disc TCM Archives: The Buster Keaton Collection, released this week, picks up where our hero, one of the greatest comedians of silent film’s golden age, is about to pull off what presumably would be the crowning achievement in an already illustrious career: signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a startling $3,000 a week. That Read More
Priscilla Morgan met Isamu Noguchi 45 years ago today, on Bastille Day, July 14, 1959, though she already had taken note of him, and he of her, at places like the Artists’ Club in Greenwich Village. He was a dashing world-renowned sculptor; she, a successful William Morris agent. Both were already divorced. When an invitation Read More
