Of all the stories and sides of Leonard Bernstein that Bradley Cooper decided to leave out of “Maestro,” the most infamous is surely the “Radical Chic” episode. In 1970, a New York magazine cover story, written by Tom Wolfe and entitled “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s,” spent 20,000 words describing, in delectable you-are-there detail, a party thrown by Lenny and his wife, Felicia, at their Park Avenue apartment to raise funds for the Black Panthers. Several of the Panthers were there, mingling with the swells of aristocratic liberal New York, and Wolfe captured the contradictions of that evening in a tone of such scathing perception that it was as if he’d defined the concept of bourgeois political correctness, disemboweled it, and danced on its grave, all in the same moment.
In “Radical Wolfe,” a lively, impeccably chiseled portrait of Tom Wolfe, who died in 2018 (this is the first documentary...
In “Radical Wolfe,” a lively, impeccably chiseled portrait of Tom Wolfe, who died in 2018 (this is the first documentary...
- 9/15/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Two years ago, during the lockdown, I wrote that I had become addicted to those little bird-box libraries that make walking here something of a literary pilgrimage.
I’m still addicted. And almost two months ago, just before the writers strike began, I made a charming discovery–that one of my neighbors is a Very Famous Writer– all thanks to his sidewalk library.
The writer will remain unnamed, because privacy is something to be respected, even by reporters. But here’s the short form:
About four o’clock one afternoon, before the dog-crowd comes out, I felt a need for one of those short, head-clearing walks. A good target, I figured, would be a spot some blocks away, where somebody or other was maintaining what I’d long thought was the best little library in town. I won’t give titles, because some of those might tip the owner’s identity.
I’m still addicted. And almost two months ago, just before the writers strike began, I made a charming discovery–that one of my neighbors is a Very Famous Writer– all thanks to his sidewalk library.
The writer will remain unnamed, because privacy is something to be respected, even by reporters. But here’s the short form:
About four o’clock one afternoon, before the dog-crowd comes out, I felt a need for one of those short, head-clearing walks. A good target, I figured, would be a spot some blocks away, where somebody or other was maintaining what I’d long thought was the best little library in town. I won’t give titles, because some of those might tip the owner’s identity.
- 6/11/2023
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
Anyone who’s conducted an interview knows that the last question is often the hardest. Sometimes you save the trickiest one for the end; at other times, it’s a chance to sneak in one last curveball to get at the real interview subject underneath.
Sitting across from Michael Jordan, in their third and final round of on-camera conversations, director Jason Hehir decided to go as big picture as he possibly could: “The last thing I asked him in the last interview was: ‘100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a player? And then 100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a person?” Hehir told IndieWire.
Part of the decision to end on a more theoretical, far-reaching question came from the fact that the person Hehir was asking has been on the receiving end of every other kind...
Sitting across from Michael Jordan, in their third and final round of on-camera conversations, director Jason Hehir decided to go as big picture as he possibly could: “The last thing I asked him in the last interview was: ‘100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a player? And then 100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a person?” Hehir told IndieWire.
Part of the decision to end on a more theoretical, far-reaching question came from the fact that the person Hehir was asking has been on the receiving end of every other kind...
- 5/18/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Mike Hammer is in action again! Well, not exactly. Producer Victor Saville’s third go-round with Mickey Spillane’s famed character doesn’t do the franchise justice. Hammer-philes will be astounded by this thriller’s decidedly un-thrilling thrills: there’s little to connect the inexpressive nice guy Robert Bray with the super-popular, super-violent avenger of the books. Spillane’s original is abandoned in favor of a tame ‘who’s got the diamonds?’ storyline, with some compensation in a string of exciting ‘Hammer dames.’ I checked twice — Mike doesn’t shoot Any of them in the stomach.
My Gun Is Quick
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / available through Kino Lorber / Street Date March 24, 2020 / 24.95
Starring: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake, Patricia Donahue, Donald Randolph, Pamela Duncan, Booth Coleman, Jan Chaney, Genie Coree, Richard Garland, Charles Boaz, Peter Mamakos, Claire Carleton, Phil Arnold, John Dennis, Terence de Marney, Ray Kellogg.
My Gun Is Quick
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / available through Kino Lorber / Street Date March 24, 2020 / 24.95
Starring: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake, Patricia Donahue, Donald Randolph, Pamela Duncan, Booth Coleman, Jan Chaney, Genie Coree, Richard Garland, Charles Boaz, Peter Mamakos, Claire Carleton, Phil Arnold, John Dennis, Terence de Marney, Ray Kellogg.
- 3/3/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The book was raw & dirty, and did you read what that girl did with that guy on page 167? Racking up a stack of Oscar nominations, Peyton Place became one of the big hits of its year, launched the careers of several young actors, and proved that Hollywood could pasteurize most any so-called un-filmable book. Lana Turner is the nominal star but the leading actress is Diane Varsi, in her film debut.
Peyton Place
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 157 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Philips, Terry Moore, Russ Tamblyn, Betty Field, David Nelson, Leon Ames, Mildred Dunnock.
Cinematography William Mellor
Art Direction Jack Martin Smith, Lyle R. Wheeler
Film Editor David Bretherton
Original Music Franz Waxman
Written by John Michael Hayes from the book by Grace Metalious
Produced by Jerry Wald
Directed by Mark Robson
What’s this,...
Peyton Place
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 157 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Philips, Terry Moore, Russ Tamblyn, Betty Field, David Nelson, Leon Ames, Mildred Dunnock.
Cinematography William Mellor
Art Direction Jack Martin Smith, Lyle R. Wheeler
Film Editor David Bretherton
Original Music Franz Waxman
Written by John Michael Hayes from the book by Grace Metalious
Produced by Jerry Wald
Directed by Mark Robson
What’s this,...
- 3/28/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
This post originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.
Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.
Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...
Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.
Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...
- 1/19/2017
- by Mark Marino
- PEOPLE.com
“The Children,” David Halberstam’s sprawling look at the history of the Civil Rights movement, has been optioned by character actor, writer and director Bill Kalmenson. Kalmenson is hoping to transform the look at the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Rep. John Lewis, Marion Barry and countless others to achieve equal rights through sit-ins and non-violent protests, into either a movie or mini-series. Halberstam’s book debuted in 1998, prompting the New York Times to note, “One comes away from Halberstam’s book with a sense of how bleak the South appeared in the 1950′s and 60′s, and how far the nation has.
- 10/15/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Chicago – John C. McGinley will probably always be known for the classic TV character Dr. Perry Cox on the long-running “Scrubs.” But through his character actor career, he has taken on a variety of roles, including the portrayal of Red Barber, the play-by-play man for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the recent film “42.”
McGinley plays an integral part in that Jackie Robinson story, as Red Barber was the man announcing the history as it happened in 1947, the year that Robinson broke the color line in baseball. McGinley took meticulous care in recreating “The Ol’ Redhead” (as Barber was nicknamed), inflecting the character with a perfect imitation of the announcer’s unique style, which was both nostalgic and in the present context of the Robinson story.
Calling History: John C. McGinley as Red Barber in ’42’
Photo credit: Warner Bros.
John C. McGinley has proved time and again that he is much more than Dr.
McGinley plays an integral part in that Jackie Robinson story, as Red Barber was the man announcing the history as it happened in 1947, the year that Robinson broke the color line in baseball. McGinley took meticulous care in recreating “The Ol’ Redhead” (as Barber was nicknamed), inflecting the character with a perfect imitation of the announcer’s unique style, which was both nostalgic and in the present context of the Robinson story.
Calling History: John C. McGinley as Red Barber in ’42’
Photo credit: Warner Bros.
John C. McGinley has proved time and again that he is much more than Dr.
- 4/30/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The talking heads on cable only wish they wielded the power newspaper columnists of old had. They were titans who formed public opinion and whispered in presidents' ears.
Sure, vestiges remain, a powerful writer, here and there, and certainly some cable commentators and radio personalities fire up crowds. But Joseph Alsop (1910-1989) was hugely influential as a widely syndicated columnist, with an Ivy League education and family ties to the Roosevelts. As John Lithgow portrays him in "The Columnist" presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, he is a man convinced he is at the center of the universe.
In many ways he is. But that universe was bound to implode.
Lithgow, as always, is excellent. There is a very good reason he has earned two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards and two Oscar nods. He plays Alsop as arch, prissy, closeted and intellectual. He's not very easy to like,...
Sure, vestiges remain, a powerful writer, here and there, and certainly some cable commentators and radio personalities fire up crowds. But Joseph Alsop (1910-1989) was hugely influential as a widely syndicated columnist, with an Ivy League education and family ties to the Roosevelts. As John Lithgow portrays him in "The Columnist" presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, he is a man convinced he is at the center of the universe.
In many ways he is. But that universe was bound to implode.
Lithgow, as always, is excellent. There is a very good reason he has earned two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards and two Oscar nods. He plays Alsop as arch, prissy, closeted and intellectual. He's not very easy to like,...
- 4/30/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
“A book so deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.” – David Halberstam, on Ball Four As the 2012 baseball season opens, the time seems right to revisit Ball Four, a chronicle of a season that, for its author, was a time of reflection and hoped-for rebirth—as is the start of any season for athletes and fans. Back in 1969, Jim Bouton wasn’t trying to change the world; he was simply trying to keep a diary of his season. Once a promising right-hander for the Mantle-era Yankees, Bouton injured...
- 4/10/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
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Well we are officially through the first week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the articles and reviews we have posted so far. In seven days our crew has managed to post over twenty reviews, ten articles and we recorded two podcasts. Keep coming back to the site in the next two weeks for more coverage. We should be recording three more shows this weekend.
UK Cinema
Attack The Block
Scary but not too scary, funny but with respect for its characters, specific to its cultural geography but universal in its ideas, rapidly paced but always clearly staged. Beholden to any number of spiritual forbears (from The Warriors to the unproduced John Sayles script Night Skies, hailed by Cornish in promotional materials), Attack nevertheless emerges as very much its own movie – one fiercer,...
Well we are officially through the first week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the articles and reviews we have posted so far. In seven days our crew has managed to post over twenty reviews, ten articles and we recorded two podcasts. Keep coming back to the site in the next two weeks for more coverage. We should be recording three more shows this weekend.
UK Cinema
Attack The Block
Scary but not too scary, funny but with respect for its characters, specific to its cultural geography but universal in its ideas, rapidly paced but always clearly staged. Beholden to any number of spiritual forbears (from The Warriors to the unproduced John Sayles script Night Skies, hailed by Cornish in promotional materials), Attack nevertheless emerges as very much its own movie – one fiercer,...
- 7/22/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Unjust (Bu-dang-geo-rae)
Written by Hoon-jung Park
Directed by Seung-wan Ryoo
South Korea, 2010
“That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” -Matthew 5:45
There is a sequence in Hergé’s Tintin adventure Flight 714 when Captain Haddock has a problem with a piece of sticking plaster and when he finally gets rid of it, the band-aid makes it way from stewardess to passenger to crew to pilot and back again to Haddock, until everyone in the plane has had some kind of run-in with the sticky thing. While that slapstick sequence is played for laughs and The Unjust is one of the grimmest, darkest crime dramas ever made, like the passengers of Flight 714, the passengers of The Unjust are stuck, not with a band-aid, but with...
Written by Hoon-jung Park
Directed by Seung-wan Ryoo
South Korea, 2010
“That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” -Matthew 5:45
There is a sequence in Hergé’s Tintin adventure Flight 714 when Captain Haddock has a problem with a piece of sticking plaster and when he finally gets rid of it, the band-aid makes it way from stewardess to passenger to crew to pilot and back again to Haddock, until everyone in the plane has had some kind of run-in with the sticky thing. While that slapstick sequence is played for laughs and The Unjust is one of the grimmest, darkest crime dramas ever made, like the passengers of Flight 714, the passengers of The Unjust are stuck, not with a band-aid, but with...
- 7/18/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Everett Collection Gregory Peck (left) greeting author Harper Lee (right) upon her arrival in Los Angeles in connection with the special opening of the film adaption of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 1962.
This Friday, “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird” will open in select cities. Fifty years after it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, filmmaker Mary Murphy’s documentary explores the continued influence of “To Kill a Mockingbird” through interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw,...
This Friday, “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird” will open in select cities. Fifty years after it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, filmmaker Mary Murphy’s documentary explores the continued influence of “To Kill a Mockingbird” through interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw,...
- 5/11/2011
- by Adrienne Gaffney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
How Robert Lipsyte, author of the new memoir An Accidental Sportswriter, stood athwart the sports page yelling, "Stop!"
When a young man on the make tells me he wants to be a sportswriter, I tell him to read one book. It's called SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte. Starting next month, I'll tell him to read another: An Accidental Sportswriter, which is functionally Lipsyte's sequel. In sportswriting's cosmic baseball card set-Jimmy Cannon! Dan Jenkins! Charlie Pierce!-you can find men who wrote as pretty as the former New York Times columnist. But Bob is the five-tool sportswriter. His beat is the ballpark, the '60s, African-American history, women's lib, Muslim theology, sports as metaphor, and-most interesting for you, young sportswriter-the craft of sportswriting itself.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Four Missing New York Times Journalists
Lipsyte is the guy who makes us ask the pencil-stopping question: Are sportswriters wasting their careers?...
When a young man on the make tells me he wants to be a sportswriter, I tell him to read one book. It's called SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte. Starting next month, I'll tell him to read another: An Accidental Sportswriter, which is functionally Lipsyte's sequel. In sportswriting's cosmic baseball card set-Jimmy Cannon! Dan Jenkins! Charlie Pierce!-you can find men who wrote as pretty as the former New York Times columnist. But Bob is the five-tool sportswriter. His beat is the ballpark, the '60s, African-American history, women's lib, Muslim theology, sports as metaphor, and-most interesting for you, young sportswriter-the craft of sportswriting itself.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Four Missing New York Times Journalists
Lipsyte is the guy who makes us ask the pencil-stopping question: Are sportswriters wasting their careers?...
- 4/26/2011
- by Bryan Curtis
- The Daily Beast
Is there a more literary game than baseball? Novelist Joseph Finder hails an entertaining new companion to America's favorite pastime.
The writer George Plimpton once proposed what he called the Small Ball Theory of sports writing: the smaller the ball, the better the literature. Football and soccer and basketball have yielded a few decent books, he pointed out, whereas baseball has inspired fine literary work by such authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, David Halberstam, Ring Lardner, Walt Whitman . . .
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Beginning of History
Until the great ping-pong bildungsroman comes along, I'm dubious about Plimpton's theory. Yet there's no doubt that baseball has spawned a greater quantity of books, fiction and nonfiction, than any other sport. The latest of these is The Cambridge Companion to Baseball edited by Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge-which, if you buy only one book for the baseball fan in your life,...
The writer George Plimpton once proposed what he called the Small Ball Theory of sports writing: the smaller the ball, the better the literature. Football and soccer and basketball have yielded a few decent books, he pointed out, whereas baseball has inspired fine literary work by such authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, David Halberstam, Ring Lardner, Walt Whitman . . .
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Beginning of History
Until the great ping-pong bildungsroman comes along, I'm dubious about Plimpton's theory. Yet there's no doubt that baseball has spawned a greater quantity of books, fiction and nonfiction, than any other sport. The latest of these is The Cambridge Companion to Baseball edited by Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge-which, if you buy only one book for the baseball fan in your life,...
- 4/22/2011
- by Joseph Finder
- The Daily Beast
Perhaps more than any other single person, Henry Kissinger augured the end of the gifted amateurs of the Old Establishment. His ascension to power represented the rise of the free agent—the professional political player who brilliantly manipulated the press, played both sides of issues, and put his own agenda ahead of all others. David Halberstam pins Dr. Kissinger to the pages of history.
- 4/4/2011
- Vanity Fair
Photograph by Jonathan Becker on May 14, 2002 for Vanity Fair.Elaine Kaufman, proprietress of the eponymous Upper East Side restaurant Elaine’s, died today at 81. Kaufman was also a fixture on the New York literary, media, and intellectual scenes: since its opening in 1963, Elaine’s clientele has included Charlie Rose, David Halberstam, Jules Feiffer, Nora Ephron, and Terry Southern, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer, among others. According to The New York Times, in 2003, the New York Landmarks Conservancy named Kaufman a Living Landmark. But as Gay Talese, also an Elaine’s regular, wrote in a May 1983 issue of New York magazine, “The celebrities are not determining factors in the restaurant’s enduring presence in New York. Its success is due rather to Elaine herself, an ebullient woman with a large heart that she extends selectively to a group of New Yorkers who are too disorganized to arrange their own dinner parties or nightlife,...
- 12/3/2010
- Vanity Fair
Elaine Kaufman, the brassy owner of the legendary East Side establishment Elaine's had died at 81.
The New York Post reports that Kaufman who had been in failing health and died at 12:20 p.m. Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She died from complications stemming from emphysema.
A memorial service was expected to take place sometime next year, although no date has been set.
Kaufman opened Elaine’s on East 88th Street in 1963 with just $12,000 and it instantly became the place where writers loved to down beers.
The 5-foot-5 Kaufman took care of a group of writers and reporters at the restaurant that included Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron and David Halberstam,...
The New York Post reports that Kaufman who had been in failing health and died at 12:20 p.m. Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She died from complications stemming from emphysema.
A memorial service was expected to take place sometime next year, although no date has been set.
Kaufman opened Elaine’s on East 88th Street in 1963 with just $12,000 and it instantly became the place where writers loved to down beers.
The 5-foot-5 Kaufman took care of a group of writers and reporters at the restaurant that included Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron and David Halberstam,...
- 12/3/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the water rushed in, knocking down the door of her grandmother's home on Touro Street, Tonya Arrington, right, and nine family members headed to the roof. They spent two days and nights on top of the house before being rescued and taken to the convention center, where thugs roamed among the starving. "It was horrible," said Tonya, shown with cousin Michelle Rue near Interstate 10. Photo by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson. Five years ago this week, New Orleans was hit with what many consider the most devastating natural disaster in American history. The response from the Bush administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency was notoriously inadequate, and the photos and network-news footage from the initial catastrophe and the weeks and months after has been permanently imbedded in the American psyche. Below, a collection of V.F.’s coverage of the 2005 disaster. • Photographer Jonas Fredwall Karlsson and reporter Ron Beinner traveled...
- 8/26/2010
- Vanity Fair
Director Ridley Scott has been trying to adapt the 1974 novel, The Forever War, for over 20 years now! It looks like the production of this film is taking step forward with bringing on screenwriter David Peoples (Blade Runner) to write the script.
This news comes from the books writer Joe Haldeman on his personal blog. He doesn't come out and actually name David Peoples, but he does say "Scott has a script; last I heard, it was the fourth rewrite. I've talked to the writer — he has good credits, like Unforgiven." So how do we know Peoples is involved with the script? Because he was the only writer on the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven. He's also worked on films such as Leviathan, The Blood of Heroes, Fatal Sky, Twelve Monkeys and Soldier.
With People on board to write the script, and Ridley Scott attached to direct, The Forever War should turn...
This news comes from the books writer Joe Haldeman on his personal blog. He doesn't come out and actually name David Peoples, but he does say "Scott has a script; last I heard, it was the fourth rewrite. I've talked to the writer — he has good credits, like Unforgiven." So how do we know Peoples is involved with the script? Because he was the only writer on the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven. He's also worked on films such as Leviathan, The Blood of Heroes, Fatal Sky, Twelve Monkeys and Soldier.
With People on board to write the script, and Ridley Scott attached to direct, The Forever War should turn...
- 8/4/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story is (was?) a biography of its titular subject geared toward Christian youth. However, it has been suspended “indefinitely” by publisher Zondervan. According to the Associated Press, “Cheryl Lundberg, Zondervan's director of customer service, said in an e-mail that after ‘careful review and discussion,’ it was deemed that October was not an ‘optimal time’ to publish the book. She said no decision had been made on when the book would be printed.” Vanity Fair recovered some old floppy discs* outside the Zondervan offices that contain fragments of the book. We were able to reconstruct only a few pages of the edited manuscript—what we did find, though, is enough to cast doubt on the publisher’s decision to suspend production. Intrigue, confrontation, illustration! It’s as if David Halberstam wrote Eloise. Join us, below.
- 7/19/2010
- Vanity Fair
Polish film star forced into exile by the communist authorities
By the mid-1960s Elzbieta Czyzewska, who has died aged 72, was considered one of the brightest stars of film, theatre and television in Poland. However, she became persona non grata in her own country, only a few months after she was celebrated as the "pride of her generation" on the cover of a Polish magazine.
In 1965 she was appearing in a Warsaw production of Arthur Miller's autobiographical play After the Fall, in the role apparently based on Marilyn Monroe. In the audience was the American journalist David Halberstam, a correspondent for the New York Times, who had interviewed Czyzewska the day before. The pair married that year but Halberstam was expelled from Poland by the authorities for writing articles that criticised the communist regime. The government also condemned Czyzewska for marrying a "Zionist intellectual", and she left to join...
By the mid-1960s Elzbieta Czyzewska, who has died aged 72, was considered one of the brightest stars of film, theatre and television in Poland. However, she became persona non grata in her own country, only a few months after she was celebrated as the "pride of her generation" on the cover of a Polish magazine.
In 1965 she was appearing in a Warsaw production of Arthur Miller's autobiographical play After the Fall, in the role apparently based on Marilyn Monroe. In the audience was the American journalist David Halberstam, a correspondent for the New York Times, who had interviewed Czyzewska the day before. The pair married that year but Halberstam was expelled from Poland by the authorities for writing articles that criticised the communist regime. The government also condemned Czyzewska for marrying a "Zionist intellectual", and she left to join...
- 7/7/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Polish film and TV star Elzbieta Czyzewska has lost her battle with esophageal cancer. She was 72.
Czyzewska died at a Manhattan, New York hospital on Thursday.
She rose to fame as a national sex symbol in Poland after starring in 1961 film Erotica and became the most popular actress in the country during the 1960s.
She starred in a critically acclaimed Polish production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, but her career took a turn after her marriage to the American journalist David Halberstam made her an outcast in her home country, when he was accused of slander against the government.
The couple was expelled from Poland and fled to the U.S., where Czyzewska established herself as a stage actress, including a starring role in a 1974 production of The Possessed, alongside a then-unknown Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang.
On film, her credits included smaller roles in Putney Swope, Running on Empty, Cadillac Man and A Kiss Before Dying. She also made appearances on TV in shows like Sex and the City, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Damages.
In May 2005, she was honoured with the Cultural Award of Merit by the Consul General of the New York Polish Consulate - the highest award for a Polish American to receive.
Her marriage to author Halberstam ended in divorce in 1977.
Czyzewska died at a Manhattan, New York hospital on Thursday.
She rose to fame as a national sex symbol in Poland after starring in 1961 film Erotica and became the most popular actress in the country during the 1960s.
She starred in a critically acclaimed Polish production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, but her career took a turn after her marriage to the American journalist David Halberstam made her an outcast in her home country, when he was accused of slander against the government.
The couple was expelled from Poland and fled to the U.S., where Czyzewska established herself as a stage actress, including a starring role in a 1974 production of The Possessed, alongside a then-unknown Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang.
On film, her credits included smaller roles in Putney Swope, Running on Empty, Cadillac Man and A Kiss Before Dying. She also made appearances on TV in shows like Sex and the City, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Damages.
In May 2005, she was honoured with the Cultural Award of Merit by the Consul General of the New York Polish Consulate - the highest award for a Polish American to receive.
Her marriage to author Halberstam ended in divorce in 1977.
- 6/18/2010
- WENN
• What’s it like to be the only woman on the Supreme Court? Awkward! [NY Times] • Bad news for Blago: Chief of staff pleads guilty, promises to testify against former governor. [Chicago Tribune] • The New York Times gets busted for Photoshopping! [Gawker] • Do you feel held down by copyright laws? Damn the man! They’re ruining our freedom on the Internets. [The Daily Swarm] • Al Franken was out of a job for the last six months. Does he get back pay for all those months he was waiting for his seat? Might help with all the legal bills. [Slate]...
- 7/8/2009
- Vanity Fair
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