Ladd Company
Hollywood years ago recognized the mainstream appeal of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, using his stories as the basis for films like "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford.
|
Philip K. Dick: A pulp sci-fi writer finally wins respect
By CHARLES MCGRATH
Some 25 years after his death, the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick has arrived at the pinnacle of literary respectability. Four of his novels from the 1960s - "The Man in the High Castle," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and "Ubik" - are being reissued by the Library of America in classic format.
|
6 world records set at Sotheby's
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
The auction house netted a total of $278.5 million at its sale of Impressionist and Modern art in New York on Tuesday night. Records set included works by Cézanne, Lyonel Feininger and Theo van Doesburg.
Competing visions of Robert Moses
By MICHAEL POWELL
Despite calls from prominent critics, the journalist Robert Caro sees no need to rethink, redraw or revise the measure of Robert Moses set forth in his 1974 biography, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," which offered a compelling narrative of the city's rise and long slide toward the darkness of the 1970s.
Book Review: Falling Man
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
No writer has been as prescient and eerily prophetic about 21st-century America as Don DeLillo. Given this achievement, the reader approaches Don DeLillo's post-Sept. 11 work with great anticipation. Unfortunately, his spindly new novel, "Falling Man," is a terrible disappointment.
Awed by all that glitters at festivals like Cannes
By ALAN RIDING
Are European arts festivals - like Edinburgh, Avignon, Glyndebourne and Salzburg - about culture, or merely the culture industry?
For some stars, matches aren't made in Hollywood
By SHARON WAXMAN
A small number of movie stars are turning to high-end professional matchmakers to introduce them to civilians with no connection to the entertainment world, then spreading the word among their friends.
In London, two small shows attract full houses, for good reason
By MATT WOLF
The last few weeks have seen two plays - "Elling" and "That Face" - attracting full houses to small venues. Audiences are being lured by lower prices that don't necessarily mean a lessening of quality.
Is gay male art more than a microtrend?
By GUY TREBAY
At art galleries and in a rash of new gay magazines - K48, Pinups, Kaiserin, Shoot, and Daddy - a new generation of artists is addressing itself frankly to the varied and mutating shapes of sexuality.
George Michael pleads guilty to driving while unfit due to drugs
AP
Singer George Michael pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of driving while unfit through drugs.
Book Review: The Unknown Terrorist
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Although the basic outlines of Richard Flanagan's "The Unknown Terrorist" come from Heinrich Böll's novel "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum," written in response to the terrorism scares that Germany suffered in the late 1960s and '70s, Flanagan has turned the story into an armature for a brilliant meditation upon the post-9/11 world.
In ballet, blacks are still chasing a dream of diversity
By GIA KOURLAS
The School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet were founded with the goal of remaking ballet in the image of an ethnically diverse America. While both have endured as major cultural institutions, the plan for student diversity was never realized and, for black women especially, the complicated reality of racial inequality persists.
Sneers, and cheers, for the blockbuster
By MANOHLA DARGIS
"Spider-Man 3" has heralded the beginning of blockbuster season. Critics often use the term blockbuster as easy (too easy) shorthand for overinflated productions that rely more on special effects than words and characters. But a good blockbuster brings you into new worlds, offers you new attractions.
'Spider-Man 3' smashes box-office records
- Audio & Photos: It's a hit!
| Complete coverage: Summer movies
'Knocked Up': Reflections of a generation of losers
The struggle to save classic Thai architecture
Book Review: The Joy of Drinking
Paul Poiret: Pre-Modern magic at the Met
Indian police to confiscate property of famous artist for nude 'Mother India'
'Away From Her': The mysteries of a long marriage
Studio plans sequel to 'Wall Street'
Strange encounters between new and old worlds
Tyler Brûlé: Dreaming of stations that entice commuters
12th century paintings of Buddha found in Nepal
U.S. author heckled by people denying Armenian genocide
A lesson in mob rule on the Web
Zeng Fanzhi: Amid change, the art of isolation
The postman who delivered a palace
'Spider-Man 3': Peter Parker's bad-boy phase
Michael Chabon: Reclaiming a frigid island for the 'chosen frozen'
Will campus killings shake U.S. infatuation with violent films?
Book Review: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Visiting Björk's restless, impulsive, multicultural universe
In Berlin, art among the ruins
Testosterone rules (at the box office)
Book Review: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Handel's 'Hallelujah' chorus: A malice toward Judiasm?
The subtle Desiderio: Breathing life into cool marble
Armenia's artistic bridge from East to West
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
MOBILE
