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...Thompson Room in the Barker Center is filled with a diverse crowd of Harvard students, professors and Cambridge residents, black and white, old and young. They have gathered to hear the words of Elvis Mitchell, the first African-American film critic for the New York Times. Mitchell, who is widely read and revered for his tough but honest reviews, spoke at Harvard on the state of African Americans in cinema as a part of the Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series...
...addition of big, shiny gadgets is also viewed as proof that guys are hanging around too. "Men have taken to cooking and made it into a hobby and a locus of consumption and gadgetry," says design critic Thomas Hine. That helps explain the increasing popularity of such accessories as wine coolers, warming drawers, pot fillers and built-in espresso machines the size of church organs. For the ultrachic kitchen that has everything, the impulse is to buy things in pairs: two stoves and two dishwashers. You can throw the kitchen sink into the twofer department...
...even consider "It's Pat!" to be an early sign of the Apocalypse. But none of that should stop you from relishing Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Little, Brown; 594 pages), a guilty pleasure of the highest order. The authors, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales and journalist James Andrew Miller, interviewed dozens of writers, actors, television executives, musicians and assorted other celebrities and assembled their testimony into an oral history spanning the show's 27-year lifetime. The result is something funnier, sadder, seedier, more moving and more alive than Saturday Night Live...
DIED. NORMAN O. BROWN, 89, critic-philosopher beloved of the counterculture; in Santa Cruz, Calif. In such books as Closing Time, a unique look at James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and Life Against Death, which analyzed history from a psychoanalytic perspective, Brown drew on Marx and Freud to produce original, erudite, occasionally baffling insights. "Reading Brown was a little like taking drugs," said a critic, "only it was more likely to lead to tenure...
...chats away for an hour on the phone, after subduing two children overly excited by a rare visit to New York City. There's not a dull moment in her conversation, just as there's not a dead page in her book. Pearson is married to New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane, whom she squarely places in the hunter-gatherer category. He pitches in, she says, but "until they program men to notice you're out of toilet paper, a happy domestic life will always be up to women...