So you think you know your Hitchcock? O.K., let’s play a game. I
want you to link up the following Hitchcock movies, but without using date,
genre or actor. All you’re allowed is theme or, at a push, subtext-or
sub-theme, or inter-text, or whatever lingo is the flavor of the month on the
nation’s campuses. Read More
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies , by James Sanders. Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pages, $45.
So it’s 1930, and you’re a 300-ton, 90-foot gorilla, footloose, fancy-free, looking for kicks in New York City. “Gee, ain’t we got enough of those?” pipes up a sailor as you pass down Fifth Avenue, which gets Read More
The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin , edited by Robert Kimball and Linda Emmet. Alfred A. Knopf, 530 pages, $65.
When the smoke cleared and the rubble subsided, one New Yorker stood tall, his high spirits undiminished in the face of adversity, his reputation repolished to a blinding gleam. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: Read More
Fury , by Salman Rushdie. Random House, 259 pages, $24.95.
So what’s Salman Rushdie been up to in New York? Having some well-earned fun, for the most part. Putting the fatwa behind him, he has taken his pick of the city’s restaurants and nightspots and unleashed some of his famously loose-limbed dancing. Seeking solace for Read More
