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Born in Shanghai, China, Tribe is the son of Polish Jews who fled both Soviet and Nazi persecution. The family emigrated to San Francisco when he was five. A gifted child, he completed high school at 16 and majored in mathematics at Harvard College. After graduating summa cum laude, he...
All right, all right, it must be admitted: Michael Jackson is a special case. He may be the hottest single in show business right now. He is a supremely gifted performer, the Fred Astaire of video. But no one is too big for a video boost. Thriller, the megabit Jackson...
The womanizer is a great subject for farce, and a challenging one for tragedy. What he is not is a suitable subject for sympathy. This film, which turns François Truffaut's delicious 1977 Gallic soufflé into singles' restaurant quiche, suffers centrally from that miscalculation. Producer...
Saint Laurent is deeply devoted to his professional "family," which includes Bergé, his partner in private as well as business life; Loulou Klossowski, an associate who is particularly gifted at choosing accessories; and a few longtime assistants. Saint Laurent blames his depression on ambition and precocious success. Before leaving...
• Left-wing literary criticism has not been wrong in insisting on the importance of subject-matter. It may not even have been wrong, considering the age we live in, in demanding that literature shall be first and foremost propaganda. Where it has been wrong is in making what are...