When the hedge fund giant Phil Falcone got some bad news last week about losing a good bit of business from Goldman Sachs, he came up with a theory that explained it away.
But Reuters is reporting that he may have a more cumbersome problem.
Kazan on Directing
By Elia Kazan
Knopf, 341 pp., $30
When he sat down to write his autobiography, Elia Kazan hit on a brilliant tactic to solve the problem of the multitudes who loathed him for naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952.
He freely and continually proclaimed that he was Read More
Remember when movies mattered?
I do—vaguely. Cast your mind back 30 or more years to a time when the next Arthur Penn movie, the next Coppola, the next Mazursky or Ashby or Bogdanovich excited burning anticipation, and the question of whether or not Billy Wilder could pull it together and mount a comeback (he couldn’t) Read More
As a cinematographer, Haskell Wexler has worked with Elia Kazan ( America, America), Norman Jewison ( In the Heat of the Night), Mike Nichols ( Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Milos Forman ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Hal Ashby ( Bound for Glory), John Sayles ( Matewan) and, er, Billy Crystal ( 61*). Read More
Last year James Cameron proclaimed himself the King of the World on Oscar night. This year it was Harvey Weinstein’s turn to crow over his crowning achievement in selling Shakespeare in Love and Life Is Beautiful to the Academy’s voters, and crow he did with a vengeance. There was much gnashing of teeth in what Read More
