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By Rex Reed 11/22/11 10:42am

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Michelle Williams in Yet Another Impossibly Starmaking Turn with a Sublime Performance as Marilyn Monroe

In the weekly grind of seeing, suffering through, and writing about what passes for movies today, perfection is a word I rarely have the occasion to use. A warm, wonderful and enchanting work of artistry such as My Week With Marilyn is the exception to that problem. What an extraordinary thrill to leave a movie exhilarated instead of drained, sated instead of empty, rejuvenated instead of depressed. It’s a magical experience. Read More

By Rex Reed 11/20/06 12:00am

Boys: Perfect Hormone-y!

The History Boys is one of the best, most reverent, comprehensive and seamless transfers from stage to screen ever made. Recreating their original assignments for England’s National Theatre and Broadway, Alan Bennett’s adaptation of his own Tony Award–winning play, and Nicholas Hytner’s direction of it, are literate, intelligent, profound and a huge entertainment. All of Read More

By John Heilpern 6/12/06 12:00am

This Year’s Tony Tip-Offs: Can Jersey Be Stopped?

The June 11 Tony Awards ceremony on CBS is sure to be the usual riveting event, and I’ll certainly be watching the broadcast along with the other 322 viewers across the nation. Not to be too cynical, but at least 199 of them will be from New Jersey. They’ll be cheering for Jersey Boys, the Read More

By John Heilpern 6/12/06 12:00am

This Year’s Tony Tip-Offs: Can Jersey Be Stopped?

The June 11 Tony Awards ceremony on CBS is sure to be the usual riveting event, and I’ll certainly be watching the broadcast along with the other 322 viewers across the nation. Not to be too cynical, but at least 199 of them will be from New Jersey. They’ll be cheering for Jersey Boys, the Read More

By John Heilpern 5/08/06 12:00am

Bennett’s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School

Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has written a wonderfully engaging play about an English obsession—schooldays. It sparkles with wit and intelligence, and it couldn’t be better acted. And I’m Read More

By John Heilpern 5/08/06 12:00am

Bennett’s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School

Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has written a wonderfully engaging play about an English obsession—schooldays. It sparkles with wit and intelligence, and it couldn’t be better acted. And I’m Read More

By Chris Lehmann 3/13/06 12:00am

A Briefly Brilliant Editor, And His Long, Slow Twilight

The second act of Willie Morris’ life could be a sequel to The Great Gatsby—in which we learn what became of Gatsby’s brooding confidant Nick Carraway, blasted out of the Manhattan high life by a brutal calamity, and spending the balance of his days back home in the provinces, savoring simpler pleasures and sizing up Read More

By Chris Lehmann 3/13/06 12:00am

A Briefly Brilliant Editor, And His Long, Slow Twilight

The second act of Willie Morris’ life could be a sequel to The Great Gatsby—in which we learn what became of Gatsby’s brooding confidant Nick Carraway, blasted out of the Manhattan high life by a brutal calamity, and spending the balance of his days back home in the provinces, savoring simpler pleasures and sizing up Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 9/19/05 12:00am

The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind Of Bard ‘Creationist’?

It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage. Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-seller Will in the World. On Sept. 4, Read More

3 By Ron Rosenbaum 9/19/05 12:00am

The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind Of Bard ‘Creationist’?

It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage.

Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-seller Will in the World. On Sept. 4, The Read More
By Priya Jain 7/11/05 12:00am

A Huge, Risky Royal Farce Hums With Arthurian Reverb

Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin. The Penguin Press, 553 pages, $27.95.

Where do you go, after 58 years of life, when you’ve graduated from Harvard and Oxford, written four critically adored novels and three story collections—not to mention three children’s books—won the Prix de Rome, been called a literary genius, become a respected political Read More

By Priya Jain 7/11/05 12:00am

A Huge, Risky Royal Farce Hums With Arthurian Reverb

Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin. The Penguin Press, 553 pages, $27.95.

Where do you go, after 58 years of life, when you've graduated from Harvard and Oxford, written four critically adored novels and three story collections-not to mention three children's books-won the Prix de Rome, been called a literary genius, become a respected political commentator, Read More
By John Heilpern 8/16/04 12:00am

Alan Bennett’s Cheats’ Charter Inspires Smashing New Play

The hit play of the London season is Alan Bennett's hilarious and touching The History Boys , brilliantly directed by Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre, and I can only hope all the exciting talk about its transfer to Broadway comes true. Put simply, Mr. Bennett has written a wonderful play about England. Put less Read More

By Rachel Donadio 12/15/03 12:00am

Power Punk: Noah Feldman

N.Y.U. law professor reviews Afghan constitution; After Jihad author is nice Jewish Muslim expert in black leather ankle boots.

When you're a nice Jewish boy with a Ph.D. in Islamic thought from Oxford who teaches at New York University Law School and advises the United States government on how to bring democracy to the Muslim world, Read More

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