The Kitty Genovese Story Was the Prototype for Fake News
The new documentary 'The Witness' exposes how a made-up story that satisfies our need for tidy narrative is hardly a recent phenomenon
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Hollywood Out East: Celebrity Spotting at the Hamptons International Film Festival
Hamptons traffic was worse than August this past weekend, but a bottleneck can’t stop the Hamptons International Film Festival—in fact, hordes of regular ticket holders were turned away because too many movie stars and Tinseltown executives and corporate sponsors and assorted other VIPs gobbled up seats to the hot films. Sorry to the disgruntled East Hamptonites who expected to see Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carell in Foxcatcher, but look, there are many fine documentaries screening the next day.
From Glamour to Slammer: Two Actors and a Broadway Press Agent Are Keeping It Real
The funny thing about eureka moments is the way they sneak up on us unawares and radically rearrange our lives.
