What I remember most about that day was every time Newman had a break in filming he would come over, sit down nearby, and perform goofy tricks for me.
Robert Brustein | Posted 09.29.2008 | Entertainment
It will be a long time before we can fully absorb what a loss his death has been.
Alex Remington | Posted 09.28.2008 | Entertainment
Paul Newman was beautiful. You could never root against him. It might have been easier for him to sink into villainy if he wore dull-colored contact lenses, to blunt the brilliance of his eyes, to hide the twinkle.
David Sassoon | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
Phil Clapp, 54, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group, died yesterday in Amsterdam of complications from pneumonia, which he contracted while on vacation.
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media
While Wallace understood well the solipsism of depression -- see "The Depressed Person" -- he himself evinced none of it, in spite of his affliction.
Roger Fransecky | Posted 09.19.2008 | Living
Nancy and I celebrated every day. We made our marriage a daily commitment. We had fun, grew wiser, struggled, laughed, collected, built, moved, nurtured, spat, loved and lost as all of us do.
Alex Remington | Posted 08.04.2008 | Entertainment
For Braves fans, he was the best and funniest of us all; for fans of opposing teams, he was serious about the sport and irreverent about everything in it.
Alex Remington | Posted 07.06.2008 | Living
For other classes, I bought $80 textbooks geared for the AP exam. In Steve's class, I received handouts from century-old Russian books because he said they taught logarithms better before the fall of the tsar.
William Klein | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Tony Schwartz, best known for making the famous "daisy spot" used in Lyndon Johnson's campaign against Barry Goldwater, died last Saturday at the home he rarely left in New York.
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living
Saint Laurent is being hailed as a "legend" now, but for women of the world, he was an emancipator. He put women in pants, and in doing so freed their psyches.
Rob Kall | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
Tough day today. We had to put down our 14 year old yellow lab, Vanilla. I treated her better than a dog the past few days. It made me think about ho...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living
Several months ago, I wrote here about the possibility of my being able to buy back the home that I had to sell due to a divorce agreement. Presently,...
Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media
Here we have a raft of errors that took over eight months for the Times to correct, even though the deceased's son brought the errors to the attention of the paper twice during that time.
Melissa Kirsch | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
These tiny corrections are not as crucial as when the Times got Heston's name and age wrong, but nonetheless, they leave the paper with even more egg on its face.
Alex Remington | Posted 04.06.2008 | Entertainment
It speaks well of us as a culture that a man's art should outlive his politics. Charlton Heston was one of our greatest stars, and his best movies will last forever.
Alex Remington | Posted 02.27.2008 | Entertainment
As the Steel Town's fortunes faded in all but football, Myron Cope was the one constant, the defiant bulwark against the Cleveland Browns, the Haray Caray of Western Pennsylvania. He was 79.
Saturday Night Live's sketch about the vice presidential debate starred Queen...
At a rally on Saturday in California,...
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The McCain campaign is all set to roll out...
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. ...
The following are my comments from the stage at yesterday's Vote...
In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts...
Katie Couric was out shopping in midtown with her daughters...
Actor and activist Alec Baldwin appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night. At several points...
WASHINGTON — The now-bankrupt...
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed...
Last week's post began an exploration into what style is today and how this relates to each of us. If we...
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
Jonathan Carroll | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home