Bradley Cooper sure has come a long way since The Hangover, and we're all the luckier for it. The one-time comic leading man has bold ambitions, and if his first two directorial efforts—2018's A Star is Born and now Maestro, about the life, work and relationships of composer and conductor Leonard ...
Archives for November 2023
Playlist: Holidays 2023
In what's become my most treasured holiday tradition (and I have quite a few!), I'm back again with my annual Holidays playlist, a selection of songs that I've been enjoying this season and I hope you will, too. Each year, I go into building this playlist without quite knowing how (or if) it ...
A Week of Theater: Sondheim, Shakespeare and…Beetlejuice
After a dry spell in live theater (filled mostly by live music shows instead), I returned in a big way in the last week, catching no fewer than five shows in seven days, from touring Broadway productions to community theater in my hometown. It made for a whirlwind week and quite a few dinners out, ...
Review: PRISCILLA
Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker who, from the moment she arrived on the scene with 1999's moody and melancholy The Virgin Suicides, announced herself with a style, perspective and narrative approach all her own. The screenwriter and director, essentially fully formed from the get go, is the daughter of ...