Theater review CHESS Two hours and 45 minutes with one intermission. <br>At the Imperial Theatre, 249 W. 45th St. By the time the curtain rises at the Imperial Theatre, the revival of “Chess” has already given up. The set, such as it is, is revealed to be a semicircle of metal stairs and platforms, on … Read more
Drawing upon her personal and political past, Jane Fonda has revived an activist group from the Cold War era that was backed by her father and fellow Oscar winner, Henry Fonda. Jane Fonda announced she had launched a 21st century incarnation of the Committee for the First Amendment, originally formed in 1947 in response to … Read more
“Never in our history,” declared a TV anchor, “has there been such an avalanche of information, so little believed or believable.” This was no anguished lament over AI or social media. This was 1967, the era of the Vietnam War, racial tension, and urban blight, when a group of liberal satirists launched a prank so … Read more
It’s one giant explosion for mankind. At the end of the 1950s — a decade shy of Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing — the US military had the radical idea of detonating a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon, Air Force documents from 1959 show. “Nuclear detonations in the vicinity of the moon … Read more
On Dec. 1, 1989, Romania’s Nadia Comăneci, winner of five Olympic gold medals and the first gymnast in history to score a perfect 10, sat opposite an official in the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria, trying to claim asylum. “What do you want?” asked the official. “I want to go to America,” she replied. “When?” … Read more
Guy Pearce spent six months playing Kim Philby in “A Spy Among Friends” — and said he still can’t quite understand what motivated the infamous British intelligence officer who fled to Russia in 1963 after decades as a double-agent for the Soviet Union. Philby’s betrayal — not only of his country, but of his friendship … Read more