Studios almost never admit to being wrong. So Warner Bros.’ decision to release John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye in its original tinted version is not only a major act of restoration, but a major act of humility. (The film is available as part of the new Marlon Brando Collection, which also includes Brando’s Read More
Curb Appeal
In the fourth episode of the second season of Curb Your Enthusiasm , Larry David accuses a (fictitious) HBO president of stealing shrimp from his Chinese takeout-in the middle of a pitch meeting, no less. What chutzpah! This is a stand-in for his actual boss . The bespectacled executive is obviously offended, and Read More
I’ve been struggling for a couple of weeks now since my first column on David Berlinski’s work (on May 18) to do justice to the complexity and profundity of his mathematically based critique of the origins of the universe and the origins of man as he expanded on them in the course of a recent Read More
