Books
We very much enjoyed “Hot, Sexy and (Almost) 70,” Charles Champlin’s piece on Paul Newman (Dec. 18).
Jan. 1, 1995
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May 18, 2007
Culture Monster Blog
June 12, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
Quick, what do Southern California artist John Baldessari and 18th-Century English clergyman Laurence Sterne have in common?
Nov. 25, 1988
Movies
AT the CineVegas Film Festival last month, where the stars present included Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne, Christina Ricci, Sylvester Stallone and Helen Mirren, nobody drew a crowd like rotund comedian and Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange.
July 16, 2006
“Romeo and Juliet,” Shakesepeare’s most enduring tragic love story, has found its way back to Broadway after nearly three decades.
Sept. 20, 2013
‘Romeo and Juliet’ on Broadway: What did the critics think?
Firewater Pond by Michael Kimball (Putnam’s: $17.95) Around the turn of the century, the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno wrote “Niebla” (Fog), a book that was either a descendant of Laurence Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” or a precursor of Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author.”
Dec. 11, 1985
There are writers who can draw out a yarn like Scheherazade, perhaps in some vain hope that the contours and detours of a discursive story might forestall death as it had on those thousand and one nights.
March 23, 2018
California
Insurance: Family of man who died in Auschwitz resolves first such individual action against a European firm in what lawyer calls a major breakthrough. Neither side discloses terms.
Nov. 24, 1999