By the time Vickie Lynn Hogan was twenty-six, she had made a name for herself, having modelled for Guess jeans and appeared on the cover of Playboy. The name was Anna Nicole Smith. A native …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM“Chicago” captures something canny about the metabolism of fame and about the symbiosis between criminals and the hankering public.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:55PMThe sixty-seventh annual Antoinette Perry Awards were handed out last night, and they began with Neil Patrick Harris dissing Shia LaBeouf. (“I wouldn’t be here if someone else ha…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:13AMSunlight gleams over the savannah. The cicadas are descending on “Mamma Mia.” June is busting out all over, and, as Leslie Uggams once sang, the lidda bidda drigdes and the hucka…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:22PMIf most of its promises ended up, well, smashed, the show’s two seasons still offered a Minnelli of delights (it’s like a flock of seagulls) for theatre lovers, who regarded it w…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:39PMShould everyone follow Williamson’s lead and throw the offending cell phone? Of course not: theatregoing would turn into a Hobbesian state of nature, or, worse, the L train after midni…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:23PMThe legend of Mike McAlary—tabloid chronicler of the crime-ridden, crack-laden New York City of the Koch-Dinkins era—has been burnished twice over: first by the man himself, who,…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:28PMBut what does Meryl Streep have to say? That’s the question I ask myself about most things—the “Mad Men” season première, North Korea, the bumblebee die-off̵…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:17PMThree years before Roald Dahl died, he was stumped by a five-year-old. Like many of his protagonists, Matilda Wormwood was a precocious youngster surrounded by monstrous adults and grotesque…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMFrank had one last shot at the upper chamber: for one night only, he was making a cameo appearance as a Republican senator in the 1959 musical “Fiorello!”
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:13PMThere is a farm in Haddam, Connecticut, that you dreamed of as a child. Some twenty-six dogs run free on its ninety acres—working or retired show dogs, many of them former Totos, from …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMFor sixteen years, the actor Roger Rees and the playwright Rick Elice have lived in a book-crammed apartment in the Beresford, on Central Park West. Elice (New Yorker, garrulous) is the auth…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMUntil Mayor Bloomberg leaves office or marries his longtime partner, Diana Taylor, New York City will have to do without a proper First Lady, as it has, effectively, since 2000, when Rudolph…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIn 2006, the singer-songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová put out a tiny movie called “Once,” which went on to earn twenty million dollars and an Academy Award, …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMBroadway, like New York City, is a place where petty comforts are fought for but rarely won. So when Jujamcyn Theatres, which owns five Broadway houses, recently announced a “revolutio…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMThis week, an Off Broadway revival of "Carrie," the musical based on the Stephen King novel, starts performances at the Lucille Lortel, marking the semi-ironic return of what may be Broadway…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:25AM"I won’t grow up!" is the mantra of many a grad student and Botox injectee, but the line belongs to Peter Pan, and specifically to Cathy Rigby, the former Olympic gymnast who has played th…
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