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SELLER Jasper Johns BUYER Spike Lee DESCRIPTION Lvly Italianate 4-stry, 9,000-sq.-ft. home in prestig 10021 ZIP. Courtyd w fntn, 32-ft. frontage, once owned by Gypsy Rose Lee! PRICE With the place next door, which was bought by a nonceleb, a reported $7.2 million (Johns paid $4.77 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...best, Kubrick created America's finest antiwar movie, Paths of Glory. At his worst, in Lolita, he flattened Nabokov's Krafft-Ebing satire and missed the author's parody of motel Americana. With the innovative successes of Dr. Strangelove and 2001, he recouped much of his prestigé. Still, there remains some doubt as to whether Kubrick has retained his ability to create characters of psychological breadth and substance. His newest project-a life of Napoleon-should answer that question. Orson Welles' old appraisal still holds: "Kubrick is a great director who has not yet made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Film Maker as Ascendant Star | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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