Elaine Chung
David Fincher is a polarizing provocateur, a painstaking perfectionist, and a prickly prince of darkness. But now, on the eve of the Academy Awards, he’s also something else: the director of the most-nominated film in this year’s Oscar race,
Mank his love letter to both Tinseltown’s Golden Age and
Citizen Kane screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Since cutting his auteur’s chops on flashy music videos in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s for Madonna, George Michael, and Michael Jackson, the 58-year-old filmmaker has turned out 11 movies. Amazingly, there isn’t a dud in the bunch. Well, okay, there’s
In
Mank, there’s a scene where screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played by
Gary Oldman, awakens disoriented in a California mansion. He soon wanders out back to a film set, where he encounters two studio bigwigs. One of them is Louis B. Mayer, the co-founder of MGM. The other is Irving G. Thalberg, a producer who has his own Academy Award named after him. Thalberg has to explain to Mayer who “Mank” is, even though he co-wrote one of their movies (just as he co-wrote, or depending on who you ask, wrote
Citizen Kane, often considered the greatest movie ever made).
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The Lombardy Hotel at 111 East 56th Street (Google Maps)
A Gilded Age hotel once owned by William Randolph Hearst may get a fresh look in the new Roaring ’20s, now that the slumping hotel market has investors thinking about selling.
Shareholders in the Lombardy hotel co-op at 111 East 56th Street are looking to sell the property for north of $150 million, sources told
The Real Deal.
The co-op shares are held by investors who sought to capitalize on the city’s booming tourism industry pre-Covid. But with the hospitality business still struggling to recover, owners are growing weary of covering the carrying costs of empty rooms and have banded together to sell all their shares, according to a person familiar with the listing.
Jonathan P. Baird: The dark history of ‘America First’
Published: 2/22/2017 12:15:06 AM
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made a big point of describing his foreign policy approach as “America First.”
“We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power, from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land, from this day forward, it’s going to be only America first. America first.”
The problem I have with the phrase is that Trump and his supporters are tone-deaf to its history. “America First” was the slogan used by Nazi-friendly Americans in the 1930s.