Paris in the springtime is lovely, but for the blossoming female members of the world’s most famous families, autumn will do just fine. After all, that’s when the famed Le Bal Crillon des Debutantes is held, and the singer Phil Collins was among the celebrities in the French capital—17-year-old daughter Lily in tow—to Read More
Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave, from a screenplay by Mark Friedman, based on an original story by Mr. Friedman and Mr. Winkler, enjoys some kind of pioneering distinction as the first major feature film to deal with the problems of veterans returning from the chaotic hostilities in Iraq. It is estimated that more than Read More
I hadn’t expected to find a Truman Capote connection. Not to the Bobby Kennedy assassination. It was one of a number of surprising aspects of the case I came upon after being prompted to revisit it by Bobby, the fictionalized film about events at the Ambassador Hotel the day R.F.K. was shot there.
I really Read More
One Democrat reports getting an interesting polling call from in Manhattan Saturday, one that provides a glimpse into somebody’s strategy in the 2006 Senate race.
The poll was at least testing the responses to a Hillary vow not to seek the presidency. (Eat your heart out, John Podhoretz.)
The pollster didn’t identify a client, Read More
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the beach or in the mountains or in the air-conditioned idyll Read More
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the beach or in the mountains or in the air-conditioned idyll Read More
Rolling Stone’s current issue carries a 630-word editors’ note in response to Robert F. Kennedy’s feature “Deadly Immunity,” which ran in the June 16th issue of the magazine. Kennedy’s piece stretched over 4,600 words and alleged that the government had tried to suppress research linking mercury-tainted vaccines with the dramatic increase in child autism.
The Read More
The general feeling among GOP types we spoke to about Bill Weld over the weekend was more Bob Kerrey, less Bobby Kennedy.
But the news did put us in mind of a conversation we had with Weld during the Republican National Convention, where we found him leaning up against a wall during a Read More
Letter from America: 1946-2004, by Alistair Cooke. Alfred A. Knopf, 503 pages, $35.
In October, for the first time since the Revolutionary War, the Stars and Stripes flew over Westminster Abbey-a tribute to the late Alistair Cooke. It’s a rare sight in England: the American flag, or any flag at all for that Read More
John Kerry did have a childhood.
As a big-eyed, big-jawed boy, little John Kerry would round up the family to imagine himself as a mythic hero of arboreal England: a medieval knight, or King Arthur.
Or, sometimes, it was Robin Hood. “He was an adventurous kid, full of imagination, who always used to Read More
