Oumou Kanoute: Let My People Go
A racism scandal at Smith highlights how misunderstood the Northeastern establishment is. Has Oumou Kanoute doubled down in order to make herself right? ...
A racism scandal at Smith highlights how misunderstood the Northeastern establishment is. Has Oumou Kanoute doubled down in order to make herself right? ...
The Left should be less divisive over Jared Kushner's Coronavirus messaging, and put their indignation aside during a time of crisis...
As a man of Scottish descent, James Killough feels thoroughly represented after finally watching 'Outlander'. Why can't HBO's 'Watchmen' do the same?...
A photograph of Cookie Mueller by Nan Goldin on HBO's "The Deuce" brings back to the roaring downtown scene of the mid-80s and the AIDS epidemic....
It seems essential for many fictional detectives to have insurmountable personal issues and challenges. But why?...
The “victory lap” the NRA/ILA took at their convention last week for having defeated the already flimsy gun-control measures in Congress was so appalling that my opinion was numbed for a few days, my mind snickering in ongoing disbelief. They even trotted out Sarah Palin, looking and behaving ever more the nightmarish ventriloquist’s dummy
Killough weighs the pros and cons of finding money online...
I don’t normally promote my own work in progress on this site; as most people in the film business know, the best way to have your movie never see the light of day is to make big announcements before you’ve begun shooting, much less wrapped the sucker.
That isn’t the case with my children’s book, Pepper Pumperdine and the Fashion Fairy. It’s been written, it’s been tested on its target audience (in New York City, no less—tough customers even at nine years old),
It wasn’t even much of temptation to call this piece There’s Something About Mary because not only would that be cliché, it would be inadequate to describe the force of nature who has been one of my best friends for most of my life at this point. In honor of the release by Rizzoli of her visual autobiography Mary McFadden by Mary McFadden, I thought I’d allow myself to remember some of those years together, particularly seeing as I worked on a very early iteration of that book twenty years ago, which I called Opus, but Mary didn’t, preferring the simpler “my book” instead.
Maybe at some point I’ll explain why that version of the book was abandoned; it is appropriately dramatic, so much so that perhaps Opus fell short, and Grand Opera would have been more on the mark. But the collapse of that project was quite a few years after the beginning of our relationship. I’m certainly glad it has finally seen the light, and apparently been given the full Rizzoli treatment worthy of one of our National Living Treasures.
“Wow! What an amazing honor!” was our first reaction on Facebook when we saw that there was an exhibition dedicated to Diane Pernet in Milan, which opened this weekend in conjunction with her A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival.