How Gay Is Lincoln?
In a particularly poignant moment in Lincoln, honest Abe spends a few moments with a handsome telegraph operator, played by a somewhat period-discordant Adam Driver. “Do we choose to be born? Are we...
View ArticleWes Anderson’s Star Wars: Episode VII
Brow Beat is on record against the hiring of Christopher Nolan to direct Star Wars: Episode VII, despite his obvious talents. But what about Wes Anderson? Perhaps tackling an epic franchise set in a...
View ArticleCharacter Studies: Emma Swan, Once Upon A Time
Picture your childhood anthology of fairy tales, a chapter each for Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and the rest. Now imagine dumping a bucket of water (or...
View ArticlePhilip Roth Retires
In an interview last month with the French magazine Les inrockuptibles, Philip Roth, who will turn 80 next year, said, “I’m done,” adding, “Nemesis will be my last book.” The news has been slow to make...
View ArticleWas Mary Todd Lincoln Really “Insane”?
In 1875, more than a decade after her husband was assassinated, Mary Todd Lincoln found two men outside her room in Chicago. They had papers ordering her arrest. Taken immediately to a local...
View ArticleDid You See This? Mario Kart Meets Drive
Give this one a minute: The goofy concept doesn’t pay off right away, but around the time that Wario shows up in the Albert Brooks role, it gets pretty funny. And anything that pays tribute to one of...
View ArticleMick Jagger’s Love Letters for Sale
Marsha Hunt, the former lover of Mick Jagger and the inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ hit “Brown Sugar,” is putting 10 love letters Jagger sent her in July and August of 1969 up for auction, the...
View ArticleLincoln
Lincoln feels like a movie Steven Spielberg has always been fated to make. Of course these two figures were bound to collide at some point: the most mythic of American presidents and the most...
View ArticleHow Accurate Is Lincoln?
Steven Spielberg’s new historical drama Lincoln, written by Tony Kushner and based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, depicts the crucial final weeks of Abraham Lincoln’s life, when he...
View ArticleDid Broadwell’s Husband Write to the Times About Her Affair with...
Blake Hounshell, the managing editor of Foreign Policy, shared a link on Twitter about an hour ago, and prefaced it with a wonderfully understated description: “Interesting letter,” he wrote. Those...
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