It's Sunday afternoon, or: your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles McGrath (New York Times): A longtime friend's obituary of Nora Ephron chronicles her incomparable tabloid-to-magazine-to-Hollywood career, and some of her favorite things: her kids, taking a bath, and "coming over the bridge to Manhattan." Also worth a look: John Blumenthal's memories of Ephron's flirty paling around, Lena Dunham on their brief but rich friendship, and Noreen Malone on "Nora Ephron feminism." "Feeling About Half Past Dead: Down in the Basement With What’s Left of The Band" by Michael H. Miller (New York Observer): On the legacy of The Band, and what a reunion performance looks like when only two members are still around.
- 7/1/2012
- by Andre Tartar,<a,Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
"Looking like Harry Potter means people discard every convention of social interaction to inform you that you look like Harry Potter. [...] One time, in a bar in Philadelphia, an overweight bald man announced to the room, 'Everybody, look! It's Harry Potter! He looks like Harry Potter!' I said to him, 'You look like a fat asshole.' It came to blows. I removed my glasses first. (Presumably, I looked less like Harry Potter as a result.)" New York Observer writer Michael H. Miller might want to invest in contact lenses. [Nyo]...
- 7/20/2011
- Movieline
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