According to today’s Los Angeles Times, the late Charlton Heston was more than just the star of Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, he was "an avid newspaper reader, eager to share his opinions." Heston wrote letters to the editor on everything from Manuel Noriega to the long-forgotten ’90s game show Stud. (Whither, Read More
Since Charlton Heston was the king of the epic—Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments and Touch of Evil, to name a few—it’s only fitting that Turner Classic Movies honor the actor with an epically long 15-hour marathon. It’ll start at 2:30 p.m., Friday afternoon, April 11, and end at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, April 12.
The Read More
Even though he’s in the Middle East, John McCain issued a statement on the case that the Supreme Court is debating today, District of Columbia v. Heller.
The decision of the court will either uphold or strike down the Washington, D.C. ban on handguns, which was passed in 1976 and has become Read More
When I called to make a reservation, I was brought up short for a second when a male voice answered “A Voce. Dante speaking.”
Dante Camara (not Alighieri) is the maître d’ at A Voce (which means “word of mouth”), a new Italian restaurant near Madison Square Park. The team behind this venture is impressive. Read More
Fresh from several baffling stops on the festival circuit, the alleged comedy Punch-Drunk Love , starring the inexplicably bankable Adam Sandler, finally lands for a commercial run this week like a bloated dirigible fresh out of helium. Some critics are hailing it as a new kind of masturbatory humor from the Farrelly Brothers school of Read More
Earlier this summer at a media forum in Cambridge,
John Scherlis, a zoologist, rose from the audience to issue a challenge to Hollywood.
“All the best data show that the great apes are headed for
extinction,” he said. “Possibly in just 20 years. Best case, 100-but that will
only be isolated pockets of apes Read More
Ernie Borgnine in Love
Ernest Borgnine was at Bravo Gianni, a Italian restaurant on East 63rd Street, where you can always get a table and there’s always someone there like Anthony Quinn, Ben Gazzara, Don King or, once upon a time, John Gotti.
The 82-year-old actor was just back from Milwaukee, where since 1972 Read More
My fellow Americans: Thank you for focusing on this latest in our series of national town meetings concerned with the defining questions of this defining moment, when the fall is in urgent dialogue with the winter, and the sound of the catalogues dropping on doorsteps is heard from coast to coast. Nothing could be more Read More
