Blissed Out Again In the Berkshires

For me, summer officially arrives when I follow the sandals, Polos and Liberty blouses to the rolling green foothills of the Berkshires and file through the doors of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The 49th season of the incomparable Tony Award–winning cultural institution that has justifiably become the finest summerlong celebration of theater arts in America Read More

A Crime-Free, One-Dimensional Future

What new hell is this? In the shallow, noisy and pretentious Minority Report , we have seen the future. It’s not pretty.

There are two Steven Spielbergs. One is the cinematic historian who instructs, informs and shapes a universal consciousness that makes us aware of our stake in the human race in masterpieces like Schindler’s Read More

Gwyneth Goes to Summer School

Gwyneth Paltrow is spending her summer vacation learning how to act. Instead of $10 million a picture in Hollywood, she’s making $500 a week in Massachusetts playing Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Williamstown Theater Festival. She’s no snob, but there’s no doubt her movie stardom is the biggest lure of the Read More