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'Two Faces' builds tension, has nice cast

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 21:55 Last update: about 13 years ago

Who can say no to a good Patricia Highsmith adaptation? Though her 1964 suspense thriller "The Two Faces of January" is not the easiest story to bring to the screen. Still, the production, shot in...

Scorsese's latest is documentary on magazine

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 21:48 Last update: about 13 years ago

  As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary...

Colorado approves $5M incentive for Tarantino film

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 21:17 Last update: about 13 years ago

Colorado on Friday approved a $5 million incentive package to lure production of the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film "The Hateful Eight." The Oscar-winning screenwriter's movie could...

'Do Fathers Matter?' says something new

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:41 Last update: about 13 years ago

From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that virtually nothing escapes...

Brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:36 Last update: about 13 years ago

When "The Glass Menagerie" opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could...

Book of NY 'objects' sure to spark debate

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:34 Last update: about 13 years ago

This is a book destined for coffee tables in Tribeca lofts, Upper West Side apartments and Brooklyn townhouses. With stoops. Stoop is object No. 40, in fact, in this book that needs no...

Bezmozgis novel explores loyalty, betrayal

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:29 Last update: about 13 years ago

The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis' aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, "The Betrayers." The first involves Baruch Kotler, a 64-year-old Israeli politician who cheated...

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