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Britain is a small island, with an elite whose members all seem to know each other. Proof, if needed, came at a recent London performance of Gethsemane, David Hare's new play about rot in British politics. The audience was silver-haired and well-heeled. On some seats lay coats...
The main character wasn't all bad: as played by Anthony Hopkins, he was the sexiest media monster possible. More often, though, the strength of Hare's villains is in their subtlety. In his work, even the most compromised of characters, like Hanna Schmitz, The Reader's Nazi guard, show...
Even if the press were dying for a clear delineation of her platform, they wouldn’t have much to go on. Kennedy’s op-ed in the New York Times last January marked the first time she has publicly endorsed a candidate for office. While she...
Brash was the tone for several actors who died last year. Van Johnson, 92, was the boy-next-door type, wooing such luscious ingenues as Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, June Allyson and Janet Leigh. But he laced his altar-boy grin with a terrier's raspy impatience; he was the...
Westlake inspired younger writers ranging from Stephen King (who named the homicidal alter ego in The Dark Half George Stark in Richard Stark's honor) to yours truly, appearing as a character in my recent novel Fifty-to-One.