Michelle Burford channels the voices of prominent people into memoirs, from Black women like Cicely Tyson and Gabby Douglas to that of a carpenter on HGTV's "Fixer Upper." Authenticity is what she's after.
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pon its initial release in 1982, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” was a critical and commercial disappointment. Over time the film amassed a devoted cult following, and in 1992, upon the release of Scott’s director’s cut, Times film critic Kenneth Turan wrote a deep dive into the making of the film and its rediscovery. Twenty-five years later a sequel, “Blade Runner 2049,” will open in theaters nationwide. This article was originally published on Sept. 13, 1992.
Elegant cars gliding through a decaying infrastructure, the dispossessed huddling in the shadow of bright skyscrapers, the sensation of a dystopian, multiethnic civilization that has managed to simultaneously advance and regress these are scenes of modern urban decline, and if they make you think of a movie, and chances are they will, it can have only one name: “Blade Runner.”
Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widowâs Wishes
Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husbandâs literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled âPamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.â
Christopher Hitchens, whose books included âGod Is Not Greatâ and âThe Trial of Henry Kissinger,â died in 2011.Credit.Mark Mahaney for The New York Times
Published Feb. 4, 2021Updated Feb. 8, 2021
Stephen Phillips was doing dishes and listening to the podcast âA Life in Biographyâ one evening last fall when he learned why some people were not responding to his emails.
He is writing a book for W.W. Norton about the writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011. But Carol Blue-Hitchens, the authorâs widow, and Steve Wasserman, his literary agent, were not planning to participate in Phillipsâs project, the podcast explained, and they encouraged family, friends and co