The Eight-Day Week

'Skyfall' star Daniel Craig (Getty Images)

To Do Monday: An Unbreakable Bond

We’re not ready to throw in the towel on the moviegoing just yet, but we’ll admit we’re ready for a break from the heavier fare. Today we’re dropping by the Museum of Modern Art for a Bond double-header, with screenings of Diamonds Are Forever (Sean Connery, kind of campy, Jill St. John as the girl, Read More

New Bond’s Stormy Virility Trumps Connery and Moore

Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale, from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, happens to be the 21st James Bond movie, as well as the very first that I would seriously consider placing on my own yearly 10-best list. Furthermore, I consider Daniel Craig to be Read More

New Bond's Stormy Virility Trumps Connery and Moore

Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale, from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, happens to be the 21st James Bond movie, as well as the very first that I would seriously consider placing on my own yearly 10-best list. Furthermore, I consider Daniel Craig to be Read More

The 60-Minute Critics

From Le Bernardin to Le Cirque, Morrells to Masa, the city’s chefs, restaurant owners and the many, many others who consider themselves food-world insiders are getting antsy. In the three months since New York Times restaurant critic William (Biff) Grimes left the position, the paper’s Dining Section and its interim critics, Amanda Hesser and Marian Read More

Growing Up, Coming Out … Bond Goes Bad; the Girl, Too

Growing Up, Coming Out

In a beautiful Brazilian song by Ivan Lins called “Evolution,” there’s a line that cuts deep to the nerve of much that is wrong with the world today: “We can travel to the planets/ Drive a while through solid granite./ Thrive in all extremes of weather/ But cannot live together.” In Read More