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A Week in Culture: Chris Weitz, Director
Photograph by Summit Entertainment. DAY ONE, KIND OF The first thing that occurs to me at the beginning of my cultural week is a question about criteria. What qualifies? If you read—or, as I did,...
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A Star Turned
This is a story about the life and death of a Hollywood icon—much of it myth, uncorroborated hearsay, and patchwork nostalgia, but it’s all how I remember it. In its day, which is to say from around...
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HAL, Mother, and Father
Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien. From 2001: A Space Odyssey It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain...
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HAL, Mother, and Father
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!From 2001: A Space OdysseyWatching the sixties and seventies through 2001...
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Life After Empathy: On Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049
Still from Blade Runner 2049. Driving cross-country some years ago, I pulled off Interstate 76, among the arroyos and tumbleweed at Fort Morgan, Colorado. Philip K. Dick lay buried somewhere in the...
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A Week in Culture: Chris Weitz, Director
Photograph by Summit Entertainment. DAY ONE, KIND OF The first thing that occurs to me at the beginning of my cultural week is a question about criteria. What qualifies? If you read—or, as I did,...
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A Star Turned
This is a story about the life and death of a Hollywood icon—much of it myth, uncorroborated hearsay, and patchwork nostalgia, but it’s all how I remember it. In its day, which is to say from around...
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HAL, Mother, and Father
Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien. It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain that what he was seeing...
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HAL, Mother, and Father
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! From 2001: A Space Odyssey Watching the sixties and seventies through...
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Life After Empathy: On Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049
Still from Blade Runner 2049. Driving cross-country some years ago, I pulled off Interstate 76, among the arroyos and tumbleweed at Fort Morgan, Colorado. Philip K. Dick lay buried somewhere in the...
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