Culture Zohn: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann), or, a Four-Way Gets Complicated
Charles Fabius, former director of artistic programming of the Paris Opera, helps me lay out the complexities of the new opera at the Met.
Charles Fabius, former director of artistic programming of the Paris Opera, helps me lay out the complexities of the new opera at the Met.
Over the past few years, there has been a drip-drip of artists, from Alan Bennett to Gore Vidal, defending old men who abuse their power over young boys and girls for sexual pleasure.
The decision to free Roman Polanski is a wise decision. It honors the people who took it. It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director's partisans have finally been fruitful.
A recent court order prohibiting Roman Polanski from poking people on Facebook has already drawn howls of protest from film industry luminaries, who signed a letter calling the limits a "persecution."
Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.
With such heated discussion on the topic of sexual harassment, I asked two of the top experts, Barry Halote, Ph.D., and Allan Gerson, Ph.D., to weigh in on the issue.
Roman Polanski, the film director currently imprisoned in Switzerland, is planning to offer a new bail for his release this week.
So it's the morning of Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor...
What is fascinating about the Polanski case is that it is not particularly about Polanski.
Why does this guy still get interviewed? Can't someone stop him from embarrassing himself? Doesn't someone have power of attorney? Isn't there anyone concerned with this guy's vanishing legacy?
As with most films, often the backstory and subsequent events surrounding the filming of Rosemary's Baby were equally as interesting as the script itself.
I hardly know Roman Polanski. But I know that all those who, from close and from afar, join in this lynching will soon wake up, horrified by what they have done, ashamed.
On the surface, it's a period detective picture. Beneath, it's much more. The film creates its own mesmerizing world through evocative music, costuming, and production design.
In 1977, I got a magazine assignment to cover the trial of Roman Polanski. My daughter Holly, who came with me, was then thirteen--the same age as the girl Polanski was accused of seducing.
Why don't you help me and my colleagues in the personal safety community get the word out about a person's human right to protect themselves from emotional and physical harm?
Writers who believed they were teaching us about a particular temptation, iniquity, perversion, or depravity: think twice, because they should know they will be thrown to the lions in public opinion.
Has the heady fragrance of Breast Health Month made it Sexual Harassment Month?
It was while writing Pompeii six years go, and then reading Rubicon, that Harris first had the idea of using ancient Rome as a springboard for an exploration of the political process.
Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...
We snicker about the blindness of Marie Antoinette before the outbreak of the revolution, but I'm starting to understand the very human wish to ignore what's painful and unpleasant.
It was always nice to turn on the television and know David Letterman could summon out of us a few laughs, but now, for me and countless viewers, the funny is gone.