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Richard Zoglin, TIME's Theater critic, has been on sabbatical since the summer. He has thus split this year's 10 Best list with his understudy, Richard Corliss...
DIED. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, 90, fiery Wisconsin Senator who during 31 years in office remained a tenacious critic of Washington's status quo; in Sykesville, Md. Over 19 years, the maverick Democrat, elected in 1957 following the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy, gave more than 3,000 speeches on the floor in support of an international treaty banning genocide until it was finally approved in 1986. He spent little on his campaigns--in his last two elections, he accepted no contributions--and in 1975 instituted Congress's monthly Golden Fleece awards to highlight wasteful spending by the government. Among the winners...
...less than an hour later after Hwang's statement, his primary critic and former colleague, Dr. Roh SuNg-Il, held his own press conference. He accused Hwang of lying and told reporters: "A liar does not remember his previous lies...
...pioneer the now-common practice of independent financing. It was via this method that Malick made his first feature, “Badlands,” in 1973. Five years after “Badlands” came “Days of Heaven,” which film critic Roger Ebert has placed in the “Great Movies” section of his website, commenting calling it “above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick’s purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss...
...surprised; we’ve been dancing around the question of elitism all evening.And for good reason. No mere triple Harvard graduate (A.B., M.A., and Ph.D.) is sitting in the Coop Café last Wednesday evening. The former New York Magazine Theater reviewer and current Bloomberg News Drama Critic and Harper’s Book Reviewer is one of the most erudite, powerful, and notoriously unforgiving critics of his time. Not many men can print that Barbra Streisand’s nose “towers like a ziggurat made of meat” without getting sued. Careers turned...