The French Minister revisits the speechmaking and politicking that characterized the trans-Atlantic lead up to war.
Tom Carson
Tom Carson won two National Magazine Awards during his stint as Esquire’s “Screen” columnist and has been nominated twice more as GQ’s movie reviewer. Formerly a staff writer at LA Weekly and The Village Voice, he is the author of Gilligan’s Wake (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2003) and Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter.
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When Hollywood Went to War
In Five Came Back, Mark Harris takes a look at the directors who turned propaganda into high art.
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The Oscars? Let’s Grouch
The Academy Awards grow ever more inconsequential. At least there will be no “we saw your boobs” ditty this year, though.
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Ashes to Ashes—The 3D Edition
When you buy a ticket to a movie called Pompeii, expecting art or even brains would be fatuous; what you want is a good time. Sue me for confessing I had one.
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New Orleans Deserved a Better Scandal than Ray Nagin’s
The city’s residents are bummed to have been duped by such a dullard.
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Johnny Who?
Here’s Jimmy Fallon, the first late-night host too young to have worshipped Carson.
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A Monumental Failure
Honestly, who on earth thought George Clooney’s The Monuments Men was a good idea for a movie?
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In Search of Gatsby’s People
Careless People takes us into the cultural hurly-burly—tabloid affairs and murders—that were likely on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mind while writing The Great Gatsby.
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Why Are So Many People Still Protective of Woody Allen?
Ronan and Mia Farrow took to Twitter to express their outrage after the director was honored at Sunday’s Golden Globes, but why hasn’t he gotten more grief from the film-world establishment?
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Pope Francis’s “Cardinal” Rules
Thinking about Otto Preminger’s film 50 years later in the context of Pope Francis.