Virginia Woolf

A Movie A Day: THE HOT ROCK (1972)I’ve been shot at, peed on and robbed and worse is going to...

Ahoy, squirts! This installment will focus on the ‘70s reteaming of Robert Redford and screenwriter William Goldman… in fact, this is the first credited screenplay from Goldman after their incredibly iconic and entertaining...

At Mall, A Dark Cave Of Underwear

Outside, two seniors from a local high school stand one to each side of the narrow portal. They are the official greeters, but are too busy conversing and tossing their long and thick shampooed tresses to notice or greet...

Evergreen

Do not Wither, Do not Fade, Do not grow old, implores Queen Elizabeth of the young nobleman Orlando, in Virginia Woolf's novel named after him. This is a notion that is at odds with the current moment as all around us things...

Tilda Swinton: 'I'm not interested in acting skills'

What makes Tilda Swinton such a uniquely paradoxical screen presence? Simply this: she seems not altogether of this earth, yet she can be more downright earthy, even grubby, than just about any screen personality you can name.

Peak picks: Advice from Aspen's Art aficionados

Stewart Oksenhorn Aspen Times Weekly Paul Conrad/Aspen Times Weekly This winter’s arts calendar in Aspen seems designed for familiarity and reassurance — the cultural equivalent of comfort food. And for the freshest faces, try...

The full effect of words

Joelle Khoury is not a woman willing to do things by halves. "When Antoine [Boulard] originally invited me to work with his poetry, I think he had in mind a recital with some piano music in the background. I was not interested....

Kidman returns from Down Under a changed woman

Her new movie is ludicrously huge. It's meant to be. It's called "Australia." It took 10 months to film. Half of Hollywood was expecting a $120 million Vegemite bomb to go off Wednesday when it opened; the other half believed...

A Writer's Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving and I am writing. And sometimes I draw... poorly. When I woke up this morning, I began preparing the turkey. We cook our turkey on the grill, mostly to keep the oven available for other food stuffs but...

Make a little holiday magic

Don't miss the chance to create memories as sweet as pumpkin pie with these outings By Jill Rosen and Meredith Cohn and In the thick of a gray morning just days ago, fat snowflakes began to fall on the city, dusting the bricks...

Theatre review: August: Osage County / Lyttelton theatre, London

Exposing the myth of the happy nuclear family has long been a staple of American drama. If Tracy Letts's play, in a magnificent Chicago Steppenwolf production by Anna D Shapiro, arrives in London garlanded with praise, it is...

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