To the Editor:
I found Hooman Majd’s article (“President of Iran’s Visit to New York: One Speech for Iranian Ears Only,” Sept. 26) to be offensive and filled with rhetoric that incites hatred and prejudice toward Muslims in the U.S.
Mr. Majd mentions in your article that, en route to the Hilton, he saw women Read More
The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Garbo did not pronounce the “w” as a “v” (she says “want,” not “vant”); she did not declaim those words, from 1932’s Grand Hotel, in a Slavic tugboat of Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 3
Alan Rafkin directed TV shows for more than four decades-everything from The Andy Griffith Show to Me and the Chimp , not to mention M.A.S.H. , That’s My Mama , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Coach and Charles in Charge . Toward the end of ’98, he put out a Read More
