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southendmd:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 16, 2014, 09:30:33 am ---I wouldn't have guessed that, but you may be right. For obvious reasons, I don't follow their theater reviews very closely.
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It's funny: I can easily name the New Yorker film reviewers (especially fond of Anthony Lane); and also the Times theatre reviewers. But, not vice versa.
serious crayons:
Hilton Als (whom I've heard of for reasons not directly related to theater -- he writes about other stuff, too) and an older guy, something Lahr.
OK, the above was written pre-googling. I was right on both counts. Lahr is John Lahr (I always picture him as Bert Lahr, but he's not THAT much older; Bert Lahr would be turning 119 this year).
southendmd:
John Lahr is Bert Lahr's son!
southendmd:
I highly recommend Anthony Lane's 2002 book Nobody's Perfect, a collection of film reviews and other related essays. He has a delightfully wicked sense of humor. The title refers to the last line of "Some Like it Hot".
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 12, 2014, 10:45:21 am ---Meanwhile, I'm also reading the profile of Jennifer Weiner in the Jan. 13 issue. Much lighter, but I already follow the controversies surrounding male and female writers and literary vs. popular novels, so it's pretty old news to me. Plus, much of it is about events that took place online (which is why I'm familiar with them), which gives the piece and oddly airless and inconsequential-seeming quality.
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I started this over lunch today. I remember when she was a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hardly important, but I found it interesting to learn that apparently her name is supposed to be pronounced the proper German way, with a long "i." I've always heard people (mis)pronounce it with a long "e."
(Meanwhile, I thought everybody who read The New Yorker knew that John Lahr was the son of Bert; he's written about his father from time to time.)
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