What’s Padma Lakshmi’s favorite part of The New York Times‘ Web site? According to a video of the model-turned-author- turned reality competition hostess, it’s Bill Cunningham’s ‘On the Street’ audio slide shows. (Weirdly, she does not mention the Books section where she might be at risk of running into her ex-husband, Read More
As Republicans begin to gather for their first-ever national convention in this city, most commentators have forgotten that New York and the G.O.P. share a rich history. To hear the bloviators on television, you’d think the Republican Party’s delegates have landed in an alien and implacably hostile environment. That’s simply not true.
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Wednesday, Aug. 14
Comedy Central is cashing out on Win Ben Stein’s Money . The network confirmed on Tuesday, August 13 that is ceasing production on the 5-year-old game show-one of Comedy Central’s longest-running original series -in which contestants went head-to-head with the bespectacled former Nixon speech writer turned actor.
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Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
Toward the end of the 40′s, after a tumultuous decade within the Hollywood studio system, Orson Welles went to Europe and began to prepare what would turn out to be the first modern independent film made by an American artist, and the first thoroughly cinematic picture based on Read More
