A letter from the other coast: Your diarist is filing this dispatch from Los Angeles, where-to embellish a thought first voiced by the great S.J. Perelman-the entertainment industry celebrates our nation’s most sacred Thanksgiving holiday by serving up a whole flock of fresh turkeys on movie screens across America. Wait a minute. Cynical? Did I Read More
When you’re deciding on a restaurant, it’s not unusual to get the urge for Chinese, say, or Japanese or Italian–or even something a bit more esoteric, such as Lebanese or Indian. But it’s not often that one is overcome by a craving for Korean food (unless one happens to be Korean, perhaps). Yet Manhattan has Read More
Robert Bierman’s A Merry War , based on George Orwell’s 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying , turns out to be a labor of love that fails to capture the paradoxes and peculiarities of Orwell’s uncannily prophetic vision. Even so, Mr. Bierman and screenwriter Alan Plater are to be commended for making the effort at Read More
There seems to be something of a Greek revival going on in midtown. I am referring not to architecture, but food. Hot on the heels of Molyvos, a rustic taverna that opened down the block a few months ago, comes Milos, all white, marble and high-tech, with ceilings 26 feet high.
“Very Beverly Hills,” remarked Read More
