When he’s not grilling rocker Jon Bon Jovi, or tooling around Dubai with ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft is often found chatting up the various characters at Café Luxembourg on West 70th Street.
“It’s always been my local,” said Mr. Kroft.
On Sept. 10, owner Lynn Wagenknecht’s longtime celebrity Read More
It seemed, on that hot, hazy spring day in 1974, as though the entire population of Nashville had turned out to watch Robert Altman shoot the finale of his epic film about the country-music business. The location was Centennial Park in the heart of the city. The scene was a political rally for a mysteriously Read More
Ten days before he died, I met Robert Altman at a party in New York for his friend Gore Vidal’s new book. I was on a couch and he was in an armchair when a friend started telling him how much Nashville had meant, how it had defined the spirit of that era. Altman Read More
Film director Robert Altman passed away last night, around midnight, in Los Angeles, according to publicist Bobby Zarem. Mr. Altman, 81, had been admitted to the hospital on Friday. He received a heart transplant in the mid-1990s, according to his Oscar speech this year.
The jabbering, meandering and ossified movie that Robert Altman has made from Garrison Keillor’s lumbering, affected and pointless audio curiosity A Prairie Home Companion is not a movie at all. It’s like notes for a movie that was never completed, retrieved from a wastebasket and filmed all night in a broadcast studio before the parking Read More
The jabbering, meandering and ossified movie that Robert Altman has made from Garrison Keillor’s lumbering, affected and pointless audio curiosity A Prairie Home Companion is not a movie at all. It’s like notes for a movie that was never completed, retrieved from a wastebasket and filmed all night in a broadcast studio before the parking Read More
Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), from a screenplay by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel (in French with English subtitles), is being shown at the Paris Theatre close to 40 years after it first played in New York. Kessel’s novel shocked French critics and readers when it was published Read More
She’s a Three-Faced Woman
The Three Faces of Eve is notable today in its DVD reincarnation for the same reason it attracted attention during its original theatrical release in 1957: Joanne Woodward’s breakout, star-making and Oscar-winning performance as the three-faced victim of multiple-personality disorder. Otherwise, there is something almost comically campy and dated about the Read More
The Company , Robert Altman’s new ballet film, is a sharp reminder of how one can forget to be grateful for small blessings. In the years since the Joffrey company has given up its New York seasons, I had managed to forget just how trite and dated the basic repertory of this company is; how Read More
The Academy Award nominees for 2001 reflect a growing eccentricity that amounts to a jumbled consensus combining the tastes of the various critics’ groups, the National Board of Review, the Golden Globes, the box office, the puffery of certain distributors, the industry buzz on the West Coast, an old love affair with Great Britain and Read More
