On the eve of the final pair of Democratic primaries, a new poll of South Dakota Democrats gives Hillary Clinton a 26-point lead over Barack Obama – a surprise, at least to me, in a state that had the early makings of an Obama stronghold.
The survey, from the independent New Hampshire-based Read More
Odd films from the New Hollywood continue to dot the landscape. After playing a tattooed neo-Nazi and singing jazz in a Woody Allen musical, the versatile and charismatic two-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton travels the low-budget route in the disturbing but riveting Down in the Valley, a New Age cowboy movie that is more at Read More
Whatever else may be said about the august legislators of South Dakota, who have arrogated unto themselves the decision of every woman in that state as to whether to continue a pregnancy, they have accomplished something that could prove important to the entire country. Long before the repercussions reach the U.S. Supreme Court, their law Read More
Whatever else may be said about the august legislators of South Dakota, who have arrogated unto themselves the decision of every woman in that state as to whether to continue a pregnancy, they have accomplished something that could prove important to the entire country. Long before the repercussions reach the U.S. Supreme Court, their law Read More
Wednesday, Oct. 22
On Thursday, Oct. 16, Burt Reynolds was in New York to see his longtime friend and Deliverance co-star Ned Beatty perform in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Music Box Theatre. “He was wonderful,” said Mr. Reynolds.
But the Bandit didn’t hit Manhattan just for Tennessee Williams and dinner Read More
The Virgin of Bennington , by Kathleen Norris. Riverhead Books, 256 pages, $24.95.
Plenty of bizarre conversations took place in the back room of Max’s Kansas City, but probably few more unlikely–or more touching–than the scene Kathleen Norris describes in her new memoir, The Virgin of Bennington . A hundred or so pages into this Read More
