Ramblings

Thinking things through I've decided to shut down this blog.  I don't really post here much beyond the occasional interesting and fu...

Even if I don't read the New York Times for weeks, I still make it a point to read David Leonhardt's columns as they appear. This i...

A theater critic reviews Twyla Tharp's latest "Come Fly Away" here . A dance critic reviews it here . Oh, the difference!

I don't normally care for Manohla Dargis' sneering takes on most films or issues but I really liked her post-Oscar piece on Kathryn ...

Holy cow! I just realized that the Anna Kendrick whom I saw a few weeks ago in Up in the Air is the same girl who performs a rendition of...

Via Hendrik Hertzberg , here's James Cameron on ... well, just read it. PLAYBOY: How much did you get into calibrating your movie heroi...

One Mr. Douglas Preston in the NYT article on the rising prices of e-books : “The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutel...

I think Nitin Pai hits the bull's eye here: And yet, a significant element of Maharashtra’s law enforcement machinery was not engaged i...

My hatred of Aamir Khan, as my friends well know, knows no bounds. Still, I thought that these words from Arthur Goldhammer on the insuff...

I disliked 3 Idiots intensely and indeed cringed through more than half of it but looking back, I can see that by the standards of contempo...

Deborah Soloman interviews Jeff Bezos: "Barnes & Noble claims on its Web site that the Nook has several advantages over the Kindle ...

Or does she have ADD ? Or does the New York Times not have an editor? Read her latest column . It is, as far as I could see, a bundle of...

Christopher Orr on 2012 : At this point, I’m not sure which has become more tiresome: Roland Emmerich’s penchant for emotionally overwrought...

A couple of my friends recommended Flash Forward to me, and as I watched its second episode today (yay for on-demand TV!), I realized why F...

Pedro Almodovar on the kinds of movies he likes to make: “No biopics,” he said firmly. “No biopics, no prequels, no sequels, no hero movies,...