The national madness known as “McCarthyism” began 60 years ago in Wheeling, W.Va., when Joseph R. McCarthy held up a scrap of paper that supposedly listed the names of 57 State Department officials he said were actually Communists and traitors.
Eventually America learned that the Wisconsin Republican’s famous list was a fabrication, that he was Read More
Just moments ago, a tribute to prominent Democrats who have died since the 2004 convention was screened at the Pepsi Center. With somber music in the background, the names and faces of the departed were presented for a few seconds each in a kind of slideshow. (The same thing is done at the Academy Awards Read More
David Kaplan, owner of embattled East Village cocktail cathedral Death & Co., is suing the State Liquor Authority (S.L.A.) over its refusal to renew his liquor license.
Mr. Kaplan had formally requested a reconsideration of that potentially business-killing decision this past February—a request the S.L.A. has since denied.
In court papers, Read More
April 22, 2006
6:01 p.m.
6 pounds, 9 ounces
Holy Name Hospital
Color them overjoyed: Painters Genevieve and Joseph McCarthy (he is also a graphic designer at Koch Entertainment), both 33, have a new little blank canvas, prompting them to move from artsy Williamsburg to ( yikes) Bergenfield, N.J. Ms. McCarthy already Read More
In retrospect I think that I failed to understand a couple weeks back when my wife said that George Clooney was her type. My wife is good on personalities, and we were talking about actors so I started testing her on types. Spencer Tracy. “Short, angry, pugnacious.” Humphrey Bogart. “Wounded. Secretive.” Steve Martin. “Ironic, overly Read More
Cashing In
To the Editor:
I really liked Ron Rosenbaum’s Rosanne Cash piece [“I Got Rosanne Cash’s Black Cadillac Album and Barely Survived,” The Edgy Enthusiast, April 10]. It is quite wonderful that father and daughter could be so far from each other’s stance theologically and still have so much love between them—a Read More
With Shooting Star, Tom Wicker found an apt title for this absorbing and highly readable account of the life of Senator Joe McCarthy. McCarthy’s rise to national power and his self-destruction all happened within a span of just five years.
Mr. Wicker is a great reporter, so the picture he paints of McCarthy the man, Read More
The movie Good Night, and Good Luck has been playing to what appears to be mostly empty movie houses around the country.
As the movie concerns events inside CBS leading up to the airing of an April 1954 TV program in which Edward R. Murrow attacked Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (he of McCarthyism), Read More
The movie Good Night, and Good Luck has been playing to what appears to be mostly empty movie houses around the country.
As the movie concerns events inside CBS leading up to the airing of an April 1954 TV program in which Edward R. Murrow attacked Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (he of McCarthyism), it may Read More
Barbara Cook, Broadway’s favorite Golden Age ingénue turned cabaret queen, perched on a couch in her cheery Riverside Drive apartment on a recent afternoon, mulling the paradoxes of good fortune. On Jan. 20, she will become the first Broadway-bred chanteuse to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera in its 123-year history, but her whirligig schedule Read More
