Personalities Archive
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History and the Typewriter
Posted on May 1, 2013 | 2 CommentsThis photograph was taken outside our apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, around the corner from Barbra Streisand’s high school, and next door to a gas station (a fact that inspired the book reports I wrote about ecology and... -
The Beauty of Hello, the Gorgeousness of Goodbye
Posted on January 2, 2013 | No Comments2012 becomes 2013 with these words from Maurice Sendak. My mother shared his sentiment: Let me say goodbye first so I will miss none of you in your complications and loveliness. -
The Shoes
Posted on January 1, 2013 | 1 CommentMoments after the memorial they stepped out into less complicated air. It was warm for an early winter day; the atmosphere was grey and humid and still, despite the traffic sounds, and the people movement beyond. Clutching his friend’s hands,... -
Cotillard
Posted on December 7, 2012 | No CommentsSurely there’s room for melodrama. It can tell us the truth about big feelings in a lush way. Jacques Audiard’s new film, “Rust and Bone,” incites the kind of excitement that melodrama can generate, because it’s cathartic, too. As with... -
Dick
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No CommentsOh, for the love of Richard Burton! I don’t mean the jewels, the private planes and yachts that he showered onto his most public love, Elizabeth Taylor, but the sheer luminous lust of him, and the language! In his rollicking, brilliant “Diaries,”... -
The Au Pair as Movie Star and The Movie Star as Art Student. NYC. 11.8.12 and 11.13.12
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No Comments
