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Cheever was an insecure alcoholic who dreamt of 'a homosexual escapade' with Ronald Reagan – but his subversive tales achieve perfection

Gender fluidity enters its next phase as men increasingly step out in skirts and frocks.

May 10, 2021 By Lawrence Budmen Michael Tilson Thomas led the New World Symphony in an American program Saturday night. File photo: Brandon Patoc The musicians of the New World Symphony have played under some highly gifted conductors during this season of intimate streamed concerts but when artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas returned to the podium for an all-American program on Saturday night, the difference was palpable. There was added spark in the players’...

Anne Buydens Douglas, who died April 29 at age 102, collaborated with her husband Kirk Douglas in extraordinarily generous philanthropic ventures. The couple, both of whom reached their centenary, showed that advanced age can be accompanied by heightened humanistic values. Born Hannelore Marx in Hanover, Germany, to a family of wealthy industrialists, she acquired business smarts directly from her father. This acumen served her well decades later in 1954 when she married Douglas, a movie star w...

April 5, 2021 TAKI This is for you writers out there: If you’re not canceled, you’re no good. The good Dr. Seuss is out, as is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, but Adolf Hitler is still in, although I can’t say the same for William Shakespeare. Everyone who’s anyone is getting canceled, so I was glad to see Captain Cook also gone, because BLM said so for his “invasion” of Australia. Never mind that Cook discovered that beautiful continent and never sought violence, BLM insists...

Talk Of The Town, however, Grant finally got a run for his money in the form of distinguished British actor Ronald Colman, his rival for the love of the eternally fetching Jean Arthur. According to a biography of director George Stevens, he was so unsure as to who Arthur should end up with, he filmed two endings and let test audiences vote on the eventual winner. Consequently, Talk Of The Town remains a romantic toss-up until its final moments. Arthur plays Nora Shelley, a schoolteacher in sma...

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, whose long career was interrupted by Hollywood's anti-communist blacklist, has died.

NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for “The Front” drew upon his years of being unable to work

The blacklist began to weaken in the late 1950s and ended for Bernstein in 1959 with That Kind of Woman, starring Sophia Loren. He was soon working on The Magnificent Seven, the Hollywood adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai, and Marilyn Monroe’s last film that never finished , Something’s Gotta Give. In the 1970s, Bernstein was able to use his own story for what became his most acclaimed project, The Front, starring Woody Allen as a stand-in for blacklisted writers and fe...

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein dies at 101 | 2021/01/24