Richard Linklater’s Bad News Bears, from a screenplay by Mr. Linklater, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is a remake of Michael Ritchie’s The Bad News Bears (1976), which was such a hit in its time that it spawned two additional sequels and a television series, all of which I managed to miss out of a Read More
You could think of it as a literary scandal. You could also think about it as a tragicomic Cynthia Ozick story. I know it’s the result of disagreement among smart people of good will and good intentions. But the end result is that the world has been denied three books and more than a dozen Read More
The Senators and Representatives whom New York sends to Washington certainly seem to be a powerful bunch, turning up in a bright sheen of makeup on the Sunday-morning TV programs, holding forth on Israeli statehood and the intricacies of First Amendment law. And they sure make news when it comes to attending or not attending Read More
