Trying to analyze the New York Film Festival is like trying to figure out why Central Park is always closed to traffic during the theater rush hour. Every September, the New York Film Festival returns with its arrogance intact, proud of its reputation for eschewing almost everything with broad appeal that might vaguely resemble entertainment, Read More
The Penguin Lives boutique biography series-a collaboration between Viking publishing, former New York Times Magazine editor James Atlas and former deputy mayor and financier Kenneth Lipper-is kaput.
Mr. Atlas, the general editor for Penguin Lives, told Off the Record that after publishing 22 of the diminutive, handsomely designed hardcover books pairing noted authors with Read More
Now that the 1997 Academy Award nominations have been announced, it is as good a time as any for me to predict the winners in the major categories, along with my own choices if I were eligible to vote. To begin with, Titanic seems to be as overwhelming a favorite to win best picture as Read More
