The Harvard Independent is now calling the Kaavya Visnawathan story Kaavya-gate. That of course is their prerogative. Heck, they’re college students. But the Times, after first imbibing the Kaavya story hook, line and stinker, is now chasing the bloggers. The Times got in a couple of swift kicks on Kaavya this morning, pointing Read More
Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass , from his own screenplay, based on Buzz Bissinger’s September 1998 Vanity Fair article, impressed me much more than I’d expected, particularly after reading some adverse reviews by my esteemed colleagues. I had the same experience recently with Veronica Guerin , another film about a journalist. In both films, many critics Read More
The question that everyone was asking leading up to the release of Shattered Glass , the Billy Ray journo-drama on the rise and fall of New Republic reporter Stephen Glass, was whether Mr. Glass would profit from the film.
He didn’t.
Mr. Glass’ novel, The Fabulist , a light fictionalization of his heavy fictionalizing Read More
The question that everyone was asking leading up to the release of Shattered Glass , the Billy Ray journo-drama on the rise and fall of New Republic reporter Stephen Glass, was whether Mr. Glass would profit from the film.
He didn’t.
Mr. Glass’ novel, The Fabulist , a light fictionalization of his heavy fictionalizing Read More
If it’s a civics lesson you need, you can forget about the idiotic Runaway Jury , and you won’t learn a thing from the deadly Elephant . The film that will teach you something about ethics gone awry, and the souring of the American dream in the rapidly disintegrating world of journalism, is Shattered Glass Read More
The actor Hayden Christensen, speaking by phone from the Australian set of the final Star Wars prequel, was comparing his two most recent roles.
“They have different kinds of ambition,” said Mr. Christensen about Anakin Skywalker (who about now should be one rattling voicebox away from turning into Darth Vader), and Stephen Glass, the disgraced Read More
According to July 8′s Wall Street Journal , Bob Dylan seems to have filched-to use a word from his native Minnesota-”about a dozen passages” from Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld , a book by Dr. Junichi Saga about gangster life in Japan, for his most recent studio recording, “Love and Read More
On the afternoon of Monday, May 19, book agent David Vigliano was busy buffing up a five-page proposal to circulate to Hollywood executives: the story of Jayson Blair, a troubled black journalist whose overweening ambition, fueled by the politics of race and inflamed by substance abuse, led him to lie and mislead the public in Read More
The Fabulist: A Novel , by Stephen Glass. Simon & Schuster, 342 pages, $24.
Have you ever seen on the cover of a book the words “A NOVEL” in type exactly as large as both the title and the author’s name? That’s the billing Simon & Schuster has given Stephen Glass’ The Fabulist Read More
Wednesday, May 7
Tonight, May 7, well-known television innovator ( Pop-Up Video ) and nut case Tad Low will host something he’s calling a Private Panty Portrait Party, which sounds like one of those voyeuristic hootenannies you used to read a lot about three or four years ago, when everyone under 35 was still drunk Read More
