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Remembering Norman Mailer and His Thorny Legacy

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Remembering Norman Mailer and His Thorny Legacy

Given the hagiographic bias of most celebrity documentaries, “How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” (in theaters) sails into choppy waters. The director Jeff Zimbalist had to figure out a way to sum up one of the 20th century’s most admired, and most notorious, cultural figures. Mailer’s legacy as a novelist, speaker, filmmaker and pop … Read more

Torn Between Golden Past and Thorny Present, Oscars Still Had Some Fun

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Torn Between Golden Past and Thorny Present, Oscars Still Had Some Fun

Last year may have been the year of “Barbenheimer,” but this year’s Academy Awards will henceforth be known as the “Oppenbarbie” Oscars. There was plenty of bubble-gum pink to go around, but the 96th Academy Awards effectively belonged to Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” his magisterial biographical portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the … Read more