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What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?
Still, Master Betty ruled the little province of Parnassus devoted to underage thespians until the advent of Shirley Temple—and it’s some measure of her talent, or maybe of her...
The Real Housewives of Moscow
A trained observer of psychology, Alina had made careful note of the strategies that seemed to work for these gazelle-like young women. For example: “A man values a woman...
A Bona-Fide Disco Album That Feels Urgently of the Moment
Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the...
Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
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The Lessons of “The Perfect Neighbor”
“The Perfect Neighbor” chronicles how Lorincz, in her attempts to turn law enforcement against members of her own community, managed only to unite the two groups in shared disgust....
A Superbloom of Daring Theatre Hits New York
In Preston Max Allen’s “Caroline,” directed deftly by David Cromer, a onetime wild child, Maddie (Chloë Grace Moretz), reëngages with her estranged mother, Rhea (Amy Landecker)—the penitent young woman...
Yo-Yo Ma on What Our Descendants Will Inherit
Earlier this month, the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma turned seventy—an occasion that led him to reflect on not just his own past but also the planet’s future. In a...
“A House of Dynamite” Is a Major Misfire from a Great Filmmaker
Little of this plays to Bigelow’s strengths. She has directed at least one screw-tightening nuclear-crisis movie before, the Soviet-submarine thriller “K-19: The Widowmaker” (2002). But, at her best, she...
Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
It does feel kind of like a play. Even people who haven’t seen it know Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech. What was your experience...
The Erotics of Coreen Simpson
“The face was not important in the history of nude photography,” Simpson said, in an interview not too long ago. And what has Simpson used to obscure the faces...
