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...think it’s a really important thing, and I’m proud to help out. Some of my really good friends are associated with the theater, and I’m happy to support that.” Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer and author of the book “The Orchid Thief”—who Streep played in its 2002 screen meta-adaptation, “Adaptation”—serves on the Advisory Panel of the Coolidge.In “Prairie,” Streep delivers another genuine...
...very big job, and it’s been very well done in the past by Peter Buck, so I’m just hoping to do a fraction as well as he’s done,” said Shapin, who has written for The New Yorker and regularly contributes to the London Review of Books...
...public saber-rattling over Iran began in earnest this past weekend, as both the Washington Post and the New Yorker magazine reported on internal debates inside the Bush administration on a military option to deal with Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Monday morning, President Bush dismissed the reports as "just wild speculation," saying such mind games happen "quite frequently here in the nation?s capital." But it?s a safe bet - assuming Tehran, which shows no sign of backing down, doesn?t retreat - that such "wild speculation" will ripen into "informed speculation" and finally into a real live war plan...
...assigned for class). But don’t judge us too harshly; I’m not sure that it’s ever entirely possible to get the “do something” nagging voice out of your system. At least there was a communal New Yorker style issue being tossed about and no one was punished too severely for being a bit late.Advocating for this choice of spring break style doesn’t mean that we should forsake doing anything worthwhile on our time off—many a great memory has been made from...
...scheduled for release May 30. Actually, as you can guess from the title--Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher (Alfred A. Knopf; 325 pages)--the book is mostly about the author, Bill Buford, a former New Yorker editor and freakishly dedicated foodie. Buford went to work as a cook at Babbo, one of seven Batali-Bastianich restaurants in Manhattan. But Batali is the book's most memorable, entertaining character. In one scene--a dinner at Batali's restaurant Lupa--Buford, his wife and Batali share at least...