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...third volume of Robert Caro?s biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, "Master of the Senate," will be published this spring. PW predicts that despite its 1,152-page length, it will "rise to the top of critics? reading piles and April bestseller lists." First serial rights to the New Yorker...
...jaded as those who dislike the sight of American flags hanging from every window. I spent the first 18 years of my life in New York City, and no matter what I call my “official residence,” I will always be a New Yorker at heart. I mourn for my hometown along with the rest of the country, and wish to see those responsible brought to justice. If that means military action...
DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, passionate, pugnacious, widely influential film critic; in Great Barrington, Mass. Kael began writing about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky...
...PAULINE KAEL, 82, acerbic and amusing film critic whose conversational commentaries were feared by directors, revered by readers and changed the landscape of movie criticism; in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Kael didn't begin writing reviews until aged 35, but quickly gained a following and was hired by The New Yorker magazine in 1968 where she would reign for more than 20 years. DIED. JIM ROHWER, 52, respected commentator on the Asian economy; in a boating accident, in France. A Hong Kong-based senior writer for Fortune, Rohwer authored the 1995 book Asia Rising, which became the definitive take...
...used to be about payola disguised as youth rebellion—now it’s not even about the videos. The New Yorker recently reported that the number of music videos on the channel that begot them dropped by a third between 1998 and 2000. Numbers aside, witness the atrocity that was the 2001 MTV Video Awards: The Spike Jonze-directed video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” was clearly shafted when “Lady Marmalade” was awarded best video of the year. Apparently not even the sight...