Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The mourners ARE gathered at a hilltop cemetery. It’s November: bare trees, gray skies pumped with smoke from the nearby steel mills. A priest swings a censer and sings a dirge. Meryl Streep turns to her left and, through a thick black...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The Summer of 1975 was a brutal time to start an acting career, and the graduates of the Yale School of Drama had that drummed into their heads. The country had been slogging through a recession, taking the entertainment industry and all...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Alan Alda—Actor best known for the long-running TV show M*A*S*H. Writer and star of The Seduction of Joe Tynan.Jane Alexander—Stage and screen actress and four-time Oscar nominee, for her roles in The Great White Hope, All the President...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Sigourney Weaver. Christopher Durang. Wendy Wasserstein. Meryl Streep. The talents who converged at the Yale School of Drama between 1972 and 1975 would cement those years as the school’s undisputed golden age. They would work together...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Time moved differently for John Cazale. Everything went slower. He wasn’t dim, not by a long shot. But he was meticulous, sometimes maddeningly so. Even simple tasks could take hours. All of his friends knew about the slowness. It would...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Six months.That’s how long it took. Six months and change. On March 12, 1978, the love of Meryl Streep’s life died as she sat by his bedside. By late September, she was married to another man.Six months in which Michael Cimino hacked away...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...“Purity and Wisdom” was the motto of Vassar College, though it had long disappeared from the school insignia. Founded in 1861, Vassar was the first of the Seven Sisters schools to be chartered as a college, with the goal of providing...
Michael Schulman is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in New York City. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...On the First Saturday of November, the student body of Bernards High School gathered for a sacred rite. Homecoming: the ratification of a hard-fought teenage hierarchy. On a crisp green football field tucked behind a Methodist Church...
Douglas Gomery is Resident Scholar at the Library of American Broadcasting and Film at the University of Maryland, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Charlotte Rampling as Iron Lady in David Hare’s 1988 Paris by Night
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