| 单词 | biographical |
| 例句 | They filled his biographical vacuum with suitably large Wild West myths: knocked-over banks, rodeo stardom, daring exploits in the Indian wars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Naively I thought that he himself would make a good model for a biographical sketch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Gogol hopes that perhaps the biographical portion of the lecture is over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The item offered a few biographical details, among them the fact that Emeline once had been employed as a stenographer in the county recorder’s office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I gave up the idea of the biographical sketches and settled finally upon writing a series of short stories, using the material I had got from Ross and his friends, building upon it, inventing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I now wanted to give time to writing the book of biographical sketches I had planned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A correspondence course in English; likes to read biographical novels and occasionally other kinds of novels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He went off into a biographical sketch while people in line shuffled impatiently. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Coo/.” He said, “This is my biographical index!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I decided to use him in my series of biographical sketches. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted a record of each person and his or her concerns, and afterward I had to quickly interview them myself for their personal and biographical information. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the prosaic biographical details, but beyond that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Southside With You,” a biographical romantic drama, follows a young President Obama, played by Parker Sawyers, as he tries to woo his future first lady, played by Tika Sumpter. Looking at the Heart of Sundance Film Festival Lineup 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z She added that he was paid the "ultimate tribute" of being the subject of This is Your Life, the biographical TV show, in 1981. Hi-de-Hi! actor Paul Shane dies 2013-05-17T10:56:10Z These inscriptions help to tell the story of David Drake when much biographical information is missing. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z And abruptly we are here: the critical moment, the biographical climax of Simon's story. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z To control this massiveness, Kaplan orders his details chronologically, alternating between biographical information, musical accomplishments, wives and girlfriends, and involvement with the Mafia. Frank Sinatra: Ol’ Blue Eyes is back in two new biographies 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Scott wrote in his review of this biographical drama for The Times. What’s on TV Friday: Duran Duran and ‘Men in Black: International’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z But this rote biographical portrait never lives up to her voice. ‘Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things’ Review: Words Without Much Music 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Those biographical dives explore favorite “Know Your Enemy” themes of mentorship and friendship, conversions and trajectories, with a rich sense of psychology and literary surprise. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z I was somehow dealing with the story of my generation and also with a precise moment in time, the last decade, so to include some biographical events was inevitable. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar Festival: 5 Questions About 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' 2012-01-13T21:51:36Z But these are just ex post facto biographical explanations that don’t tell us much about where his poetry came from. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Such digressions, however informative or entertaining, sometimes seem out of proportion to their biographical importance. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z They pieced together biographical scraps suggesting heroism, philanthropy, frugality, fame and alcoholism in the Stretch clan. Antiques: Clocks That Have Been Ticking Since Before the Revolution 2013-08-22T21:31:46Z But the form here — short biographical sketches with no action — is not naturally theatrical. | 'The Spoon River Project': Good Place for Ghost Stories, Complete With Tombs 2011-06-23T20:10:42Z To meet him was to discover the deep philosophical, biographical, musicological and even biological roots of his music. Composer Arvo P?rt: Behind the beard 2011-01-06T11:53:42Z It drifts between music history, sonic anthropology, mild biographical asides, broad pop theory and grandfatherly financial and artistic advice. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z It is important to remember that a novel like this is neither an extensive biographical study nor is it historical fiction. Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z Virtuoso’s directory of advisers includes detailed biographical information, including years of experience, languages spoken, verified reviews and recommendations from clients, travel specialties, and destinations personally visited. Perspective | Travel agents are changing. Here’s how to choose the right one. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Also unusual: Among the six new musicals, only “A Beautiful Noise,” based on the life and songs of Neil Diamond, is a biographical jukebox. 7 Musicals Head to Broadway This Fall, but 100 More Lie in Wait 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Partly biographical, it captures the spirit of the times expertly, but nostalgia looms large. The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films 2013-05-25T05:00:09Z Many biographical records give her date of birth as 1924, but Thomas, the archivist, confirmed that she was born two years earlier. Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist, dies at 91 For each one, Unger gives the political and personal context, and he employs choice biographical anecdotes to bring the artist to life. ‘A Life in Six Masterpieces’ provides insightful perspective on Michelangelo Because the libretto comprises only words from the Bhagavad Gita, it is up to the director how much, if any, of the biographical material to reveal to the audience — and how. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Cinematic Bombshell Marilyn Monroe attends the New York Film Festival, in the form of Michelle Williams, who portrays her in “My Week With Marilyn,” a biographical film that is the festival’s Centerpiece Gala selection. The Buzz 2011-10-05T22:21:49Z I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Jackie is drawn to Frank's stories as escapist pulp fiction, but she doesn't care to confront them as weighty biographical factoids. 'Laugh Killer Laugh' pulls off an offbeat crime caper 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Below is a list of questions to help get you started on your biographical sketch. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z “So they chose me out of my group to come and sing with them,” Mr. Haskins recalled in 2011 in a short biographical video. Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Instead, he was looking for biographical details that would help him find his character. Sebastian Stan Just Likes to Watch 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Rey drew the rough diagrams for Stone, who wrote a biographical novel of Van Gogh, "Lust for Life," in the 1930s. Sketch offers evidence Van Gogh cut off nearly all his ear 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Papp’s language echoes some of my feelings about Christopher Bram’s new book, “Eminent Outlaws,” a critical and biographical survey of America’s gay writers in the second half of the 20th century. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z The biographical documentary “The Real Charlie Chaplin” looks to restore a sense of mystery to its beyond-famous subject. ‘The Real Charlie Chaplin’ Review: Not Enough Funny Business 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Already a legendary performer, this pop titan has had a preternaturally large presence in New York this year, thanks to a biographical musical, “The Cher Show,” which ran on Broadway through August. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z No, this is a problem built into the biographical jukebox genre, whose songs leave the narrative only enough time for turning points and climaxes. Review: The ‘Tina’ Musical Is One Inch Deep, Mountain High 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It's a frequent issue with this play, not least because the setup feels overly designed to impart biographical information. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z She expertly intermingled Broadway tunes, ballads and standards with biographical anecdotes. Lots to see and hear on Norwegian’s megaship, but good luck booking a restaurant 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In TV terms, the biographical film “Mike Wallace Is Here” is effectively a feature-length recap. ‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Review: A Ticktock of a Newsman’s Life 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Mr. White wrote the script for “Ray,” the 2004 biographical film about singer Ray Charles that was nominated for a best-picture Oscar. James L. White, who wrote screenplay for Ray Charles film, dies at 67 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z As the documentary is biographical, exploring controversial episodes in the mayor's life was considered appropriate. Eddie Mair: a rising BBC star 2013-03-25T19:07:00Z But Bridgewater, who portrayed Holiday in the 1980s biographical musical Lady Day, is keen to play down the "victim" aspects of Holiday's life and emphasise her enduring musical triumphs. Dee Dee Bridgewater 2010-04-19T21:30:00Z These guys keep things moving almost too fast — the “Summer” story’s a blur, racking up major deductions for biographical reductions — but they do pay attention to one of the main things we want: the sound. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z This liberated Fletcher from the constraints of biographical precision. Elton John helped make his own biopic, ‘Rocketman.’ That actually made it more honest than ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The second, a biographical drama called “On the Basis of Sex,” will arrive via Focus Features in November. ‘Incredibles 2’ Sells a Record-Setting $180 Million in Tickets 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “I listened to country when I grew up,” Mr. Haskins said in the biographical video, since there was not much R&B or other Black music on West Virginia radio at the time. Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Just one year before, in 1948, Ms. Garrett had made a strong impression in a small role in “Words and Music,” a biographical film about Rodgers and Hart that highlighted the charm of their music. Betty Garrett, Antsy Cabby in ?On the Town,? Is Dead at 91 2011-02-14T04:23:04Z A man of such extremes is no easy subject for biographical study. Books of The Times: Odd, Odd Case of Bobby Fischer 2011-01-23T23:14:39Z Jones and Bellaïche follow that case as it unfolds, interweaving biographical information about Tsemel and a rundown of some of her most notable cases. ‘Advocate’ Review: Defending More Than Just Her Clients 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z In addition to his 32 novels, the onetime merchant marine and naval officer also wrote a respected history of the Navy, as well as a variety of other biographical, historical and polemical works. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z There’s only so much biographical material Dery can wrest from the work. A New Biography Takes on Edward Gorey, a Stubborn Enigma and Master of the Comic Macabre 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z No celebrity's unscripted, non-fictional biographical film is accidental in its presentation or devoid of specific intent. The discomfort of "Expecting Amy" continues the evolution of Schumer's unvarnished shtick 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z For the count in his comprehensive biographical dictionary, which is in progress, he said, “I’m projecting 1,005 when all is said and done.” A Scrimshaw Collector’s Treasured Carvings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Harnett and Ms. Williams will select the writings compiled in “My Own Words,” and will write introductions to each of the chapters, with biographical information and other context. Simon & Schuster to Publish Writings of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1460-03-08T05:00:00Z But theatergoers not already knowledgeable about the woman once dubbed the Brazilian Bombshell are unlikely to catch the full import of these scenes and other biographical allusions. ‘Gimme a Band’ delves into Carmen Miranda’s all-too-colorful story 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z As far as biographical plays go, Arena Stage’s winning production of “Toni Stone” is more of a curveball on the outside corner than a fastball down the middle. Review | ‘Toni Stone’ takes some big swings in Arena Stage’s winning return to live theater 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z To account for instances in which biographical information on authors was scant or whether they missed titles on publishers’ lists, the sisters appended the study with a 2 percent margin of error. In Love With Romance Novels, but Not Their Lack of Diversity 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z He says it again, or a version of it, in “Good Night, Oscar,” the unconvincing biographical fantasia that opened Monday at the Belasco Theater. ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Combining a fresh biographical concept, unusual talent, imaginative programming and top-flight music making, this is a release no Mozart lover will want to miss. ‘The Weber Sisters’ throw fresh light on Mozart vocalism 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It's almost a little bit biographical what I'm doing. "If they shout at me, I'll shout back": Eddie Izzard talks comedy, transphobia and taking a stand 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Yet he enjoyed this collection: "There are many delightful biographical and bibliographical details among the literary criticism." Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-11-23T22:55:05Z When it came to putting legs under his biographical portrait, Mr. Lahr knew he wanted to stick as closely as possible to Williams’s own words and the first-person accounts of his closest professional comrades. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Certainly, he never vouchsafed any biographical snippet to interest posterity. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z I was only barely acquainted with her global celebrity, and skeptical about the depth a biographical jukebox musical could offer. Impersonation? Yes. But With the Right Star, Something Richer. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z It is an impressive achievement representing a prizeworthy contribution to literary scholarship and biographical journalism. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z They are each the subject of a biographical comic book from Bluewater Productions. Comic Book Heroes Drawn From Real Life 2010-07-28T23:00:00Z But friends and family would say this biographical summary is incomplete without three more words: peanut butter freak. How Red Wing Became William F. Buckley Jr.'s Favorite Peanut Butter 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z But beyond a few youthful letters, and some stray biographical information, he left little behind. Books of The Times: Poetry on His Mind, British Author Revisits His Grandfather?s War 2010-08-31T17:06:00Z This might seem a fitting biographical approach to a fashion designer, whose job, after all, is to adorn the exterior, but Schiaparelli is a singular case. 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Books themselves can be souvenirs — souvenirs of artists’ lives, in the case of a handful of vivid biographical and semi-autobiographical releases this year. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z The father of four children, Monk has spent 11 years researching, writing and thinking about Oppenheimer's life and so, one suspects, there are very few biographical facts he does not know. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Mitchell, the third leg of the romantic triangle, shares certain biographical similarities with his creator — growing up in a Greek-American family in the Detroit area and attending Brown — and is drawn with considerably more verisimilitude. Books of The Times: ?The Marriage Plot? by Jeffrey Eugenides ? Review 2011-10-06T15:39:59Z A biographical portrait and a work of sociopolitical archaeology, “Karl Marx City” is an essayistic, quietly moving look at another lost world, the former East Germany, where Ms. Epperlein grew up. A Guide to Enjoying the Final Stretch of the New York Film Festival 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Most one-man shows reflecting the biographical struggles of showbiz personalities against such perennial demons as mercurial agents, forbidding fathers, rapacious studios, ego-maniacal movie-stars, typecasting and their own self-destructive personalities can sustain 90 minutes. At the Royal George, the world according to John Leguizamo 2011-02-06T13:40:10Z Such biographical minimalism seems to be a reflection of a band whose ethos is "less is more" – whether that's releasing via their own label or shying away from issuing press releases. Arthur Beatrice – review 2012-07-25T10:31:56Z “He becomes less biographical, he’s looking at other references, his production becomes somehow more classical.” Christie’s to Sell Collection of Arthur and Anita Kahn Beginning This Fall 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The network says she will also be the subject of a 90-minute biographical special. J Lo named chief creative officer of NUVOtv 2013-05-15T23:01:15Z The 80-minute film, directed by Grabsky, includes a tour of the exhibition, biographical information, commentary and interviews with the curators and a former assistant to Matisse. Film series brings major art exhibitions to U.S. theaters 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In deference to the work’s plural title, he throws in suggestions of other selves: biographical data borrowed from a baby his mother miscarried, imagined facts of a future self. Review: Ali Moini’s ‘Lives’ Tracks an Artist’s Personal History 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z The documentary, written and directed by Marc Shaffer, is in some ways a standard, PBS-ready biographical survey in which talking heads relate the highlights of Muybridge’s career. ‘Exposing Muybridge’ Review: Putting a Cinematic Pioneer in Focus 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Sound and video clips, visual images, costumes and instruments will be included in the exhibition, as will a text written by Bjork and Sjon Sigurdsson that the museum describes as “both biographical and imaginatively fictitious.” MoMA to Host Bjork Retrospective Next Year 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z He creates his portrait using biographical information and extensive quotations from interviews that Mitchell has given to him and others. The many layers — and lovers — of Joni Mitchell 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The movie of “The Prom” definitely went for the personal — in part because of Murphy’s biographical connection to the book of the stage musical, by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin. Bumps on the Road From Broadway to Hollywood 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Fast on the heels of the publication of a book of biographical material and essays edited by Leach and Renée Levine Packer, the album turned a trickle of interest in Eastman into a flood. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Over more than three decades, the Italian cartoonist who goes by the single name Igort has written and drawn fictional, historical, biographical and experimental books, relatively few of which have been translated into English. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Neither Dyer nor Prose bother with mundane biographical trivia. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Canellos is protective of his biographical subject, straining to put a charitable gloss on some of Harlan’s more troubling comments from the bench, especially regarding what Harlan called “the Chinese race.” A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z And while the movie finally proves as much an autobiographical tale as a biographical one, Ms. Polley resists turning it into a flattering self-portrait of a young artist in search of her origins. Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley 2013-05-09T21:37:27Z The woman — her name is Clara Salvemini — is the glamorous, good-hearted, and mysteriously self-destructive daughter of a Pugliese construction baron, but her biographical details are the least important thing about her. ‘Ferocity’ Brings Florida Noir to Southern Italy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Some biographical portraits summon up the dead with uncanny or suggestive facial, vocal and gestural resemblances between the original and copy; others just pull out the wigs and clichés. Review: In ‘Elvis & Nixon,’ Michael Shannon Holds Court as the King 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Two of the most storied performers you could dream of seeing are appearing in a solo biographical shows they also wrote. Theater to Stream: Revisiting ‘Rent’ and ‘Angels in America’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “Two in the Wave,” while it provides plenty of biographical information, is above all interested in the artistic personalities of its subjects. | 'Two in the Wave': Truffaut and Godard?s Roles in Creating the New Wave 2010-05-18T23:55:00Z His biographical sections are both elliptical and redolent of entire lives. A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Chief among them is the book’s example as a master class in how to trace the lineage of a biographical subject’s ideas and predilections. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z All the musicological work on the music's liturgical and biographical contexts is fascinating, but it only gets you so far. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z The biographical note with an earlier version of this review referred incorrectly to the reviewer’s most recent book. Behind the Kidnapping Case That Inspired ‘Lolita’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Responding to a biographical calculation from one of Cave’s journals, the artists’ began to develop a fictional narrative structure around their footage. 20,000 Days on Earth: Nick Cave “Documentary” at Sundance 2014-01-16T21:24:10Z Interweaving footage from them with clips from older interviews and her own conversations, Ms. Israel executes a biographical sketch that is informative without seeming unduly invasive. Review: ‘Don’t Blink — Robert Frank,’ a Portrait of a Quintessential New York Artist 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z King has said that version will be more biographical in nature. Cirque's Michael Jackson tribute in Seattle for 2 nights 2011-11-04T18:57:05Z While hardly comprehensive, the Anti-Biopics survey attests to the sheer variety of modes that filmmakers have found, or in some cases invented, to capture biographical essence. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z The film, written by and starring Raquel Bitton, features performances of some of Piaf’s most famous songs, interspersed with biographical passages. Spare Times for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He wasn't in the biographical dictionaries, or in art auction records, so they deemed him a nobody, Falk says. Brother rescues 400 lost works from storage unit by late Spanish artist Gil Cuatrecasas 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Representing more than just one famous person, this biographical arc reflects the fate of women moving from the conventional 1950s to the more liberated 1970s. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Of course this inclusionary method makes for thin, flaccid, facile entertainment, but more meretriciously, it undermines the purpose of biographical cinema. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z For the artist, these imaginative designs make some biographical sense. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Gems followed up with a series of biographical works devoted to artistic and historical figures. Pam Gems, British Playwright, Dies at 85 2011-05-17T05:12:41Z During his daughter’s youth, he presided over churches in what she calls, in a biographical note, “all the worst cities of the Midwest.” Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest’s Child (Really), but ‘From the Devil’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In a sense, biographical fare starts with at least one strike against it. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s still quintessential Seinfeld, poking fun at cereal and air travel and prepositions, but his set is looser, intimate and more biographical, a rebrand for the podcast age. Meet a Looser, More Personal Seinfeld 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Well, there’s this character, Jon, that’s based on me and he joins this band as a keyboardist and so the first 10 and 15 minutes are pretty biographical. Jon Ronson gets inside ‘Frank’s’ head But it takes seeing a biographical, extensively sourced look at the baron's family to appreciate the accuracy of his portraiture. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Part of the fascination of his book is its biographical or prosopographical colour. La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z The whole thing is a little kooky, but then so is the personality at the center of this unusual one-act, biographical portrait. Review: David Byrne revisits disco in new work 2013-04-24T02:11:13Z But then Shakespeare is an exception to every rule and the ultimate biographical enigma. Real artists never retire ? or do they? 2011-03-22T11:48:34Z Though there are six other solo roles, Kepler himself, sung by Martin Achrainer, is the only named character, but the opera's two acts contain nothing biographical, narrative, or even dramatic. Glass: Kepler ? review 2011-01-20T22:10:01Z The transfusion of biographical elements had once more acted as a pick-me-up. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z It wastes so much time hammering its biographical bullet points and tunestack into place, despite logic or chronology, that it never seems to notice the unintelligible result. Review: In ‘The Cher Show,’ I Got You, Babe. And You. And You. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z In “Air,” the new biographical sports drama about Nike’s 1984 effort to land an endorsement deal with then-N.B.A. rookie Michael Jordan, the Air Jordan is the sneaker holy grail. Air Jordans on the Big Screen: When the Sneaker Is the Real Star 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z We gather that J.M. knows all the biographical information that follows because she says she has done the research about Bye's life — but for those unfamiliar with him who are reading this, let's review. Treasures: Tracking the worth of two watercolors of railroad stations 2011-05-10T20:49:21Z Instead, as he tells us in an account that swings from the present to the past, from the biographical to the fantastical, he found friends in a gang. ‘Flamin’ Hot’ Review: Neon Dust, Hollywood Corn 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Start with yourself and work backward by creating a biographical sketch about your life and your family. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z It offers a critique of how math is taught, an appreciation of its peculiar place in the human imagination and biographical sections about beautiful minds and splendid eccentrics. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But curiously, the booklet notes for the CD, which include copious biographical information, make no reference to his pop past. The Great Tenor Hope (Just Ask Him) 2010-10-14T16:47:00Z He volunteered, according to biographical accounts, as a gesture of solidarity. Ginger Rogers bust, sculptor’s letter displayed at National Portrait Gallery “A chair, it’s like a sculpture,” he once wrote in a biographical sketch. Charles Pollock, Designer of Popular Office Chair, Dies at 83 2013-08-25T01:40:30Z The writing of that book is the subject of this biographical film, which won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Academy Award for best actor. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and the Real Oz 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Patinkin's upcoming work, "The Trigger: Narratives of the American Shooter," dramatically recounts the biographical narratives of six demographically diverse individuals who have shot someone in America. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The biographical drama about the Olympic runner and World War II hero Louis Zamperini is scheduled for release on Christmas Day. Angelina Jolie will direct Brad Pitt in 'By the Sea' for Universal 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He wears nice suits, drives a new convertible he can plainly afford, and expresses passionate interest in Lelaina's biographical documentary project. Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z There were a couple of things that Nick and I were given for biographical background. ‘The Founder’: Burgers, Fries and a Couple of Wiseguys 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z On June 22, Walker will make his Hollywood debut as a leading man in a biographical film about Abraham Lincoln. Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z Seeing it again, after absorbing the biographical shocks, deepens the movie and its subject. Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z In outline, “Val” is a standard biographical documentary, tracing an arc from childhood through struggle, triumph and more struggle. ‘Val’ Review: The Iceman Cometh 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Though the ideas underpinning “Glass Guignol” are shrewd, the biographical context wrenching, the staging seemingly audacious, the play itself is often inert. Review: A Gothic Tennessee Williams Mash-Up in ‘Glass Guignol’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z A biographical and analytical essay that Mr. Epstein wrote for the original edition has, in subsequent years, probably reached more readers than all of his Joyce scholarship combined. Edmund Epstein Dies at 80; Gave ?Lord of the Flies? Wings 2012-04-07T21:31:02Z Morgan's appointment would hint at a warts-and-all approach to the biopic, the screenwriter having pulled few punches in his previous biographical efforts. Peter Morgan in talks to develop Hugh Hefner biopic 2012-07-18T11:02:54Z And videos accessible on small screens throughout the exhibition feature the artists speaking in often personal or biographical terms about their work. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The movie rides the roller coaster of biographical cliché. Queen, Ally and the Alchemy of Musical Stardom on the Big Screen 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But it’s a lazily structured biographical tour even for that audience. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z It's like one of those biographical compilation musicals, with excerpts from the plays standing in for songs. Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford 2010-08-10T15:17:00Z And it is on this score, rather than in matters of biographical detail, that “The Raven” lets him down. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z The contestants offer biographical anecdotes while panning cameras across the objects. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z Organized by Catherine Morris, the Sackler’s curator, the exhibition of more than 55 objects functions as a kind of illustrated biographical timeline. Art Review: ‘Chicago in L.A.’ Focuses on Judy Chicago’s Early Work 2014-04-10T22:12:38Z Wright's acclaimed book contains by far the most rounded biographical portrait of the central figures of al-Qaida, and how they took root in Afghanistan. William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan 2013-03-27T11:27:32Z Williams’s lead attorney Alexander Rufus-Isaacs told The Washington Post on Wednesday the case was filed because the show tried to make “Rachel appear like a horrible person” and used real biographical details. She says ‘Inventing Anna’ made her look ‘greedy.’ Now she’s suing Netflix. 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z If I favor one of my biographical subjects it should probably be Thomas Hardy, great and long-lived poet and novelist of English country life. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z And it also reminds the critical viewer of why a biographical film produced by its subject does not always grant the audience a sense of new disclosure. "Becoming" is a feel-good portrait of Michelle Obama that's a better concert film than biography 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z "Conversely, Lovelace is a critical biographical film that documents the tragic story of Linda Lovelace and provides a behind-the-scenes perspective on the filming of Deep Throat. It does not contain any nudity." Deep Throat production company fails in Lovelace copyright claim 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z There are the obvious biographical and cosmetic reasons: the striking looks with an Old World cast and the juicy back story involving walk-in freezers and lots of drugs. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,’ the Final Season 2012-09-02T21:59:41Z Along with drink recipes and passages from Papa, “To Have and Have Another” is packed with photographs, classic advertisements for various tipples and biographical vignettes. ‘To Have and Have Another’: Ring in your new year as Hemingway might 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z When this tactic works, which it often does, the effect is a kind of biographical chiaroscuro. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Anything not contained in the notes on the page he dismisses as “documentary evidence,” be it performance tradition, anecdotal history, biographical gloss or even recordings. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The company also began the biographical lines “Political Power” and “Fame.” Here Comes Hillary: Even Comic Books Aren't Immune From Campaign Fever 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Besides being a biographical and narrative history, “Everything Explainable That Can Be Explained” is something of a dossier as well. Review: ‘Everything Explained That Is Explainable’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z For “The Dirty Picture,” a biographical drama inspired by the life of the South Indian actress Silk Smitha, Balan received a prestigious National Film Award. An Indian Space Mission Inspires a Bollywood Reckoning 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This desire — part jest, part genuine — drives the biographical project, in which the directors try to capture Giovanni’s legacy and her Afrofuturist vision for Black women. ‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Law’s script skillfully weaves in the notable biographical details through his monologues. Review: In ‘Turn Me Loose,’ Raw Jokes That Still Sear and Bite 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Various biographical accounts have recounted the story of the Stooges. The Farrelly Brothers on Their ?Three Stooges? 2012-04-06T13:00:00Z Other biographical details and inside jokes creep into the narrative. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Jozan remained mum all his life about Zelda, so Taylor’s account must rely on well-worn biographical sources and Zelda’s fictionalized descriptions in “Save Me the Waltz” and her unpublished novel, “Caesar’s Things.” Review | Did an extramarital affair inspire ‘The Great Gatsby’? One book tries to make the case. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The mythical status of Nicholas Shakespeare’s aunt Priscilla, the subject of this biographical memoir, took shape in his family on her return to London after the liberation of Paris. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z Alphabetical order prevails; each artist is given a large color photograph, biographical information and a bit of aesthetic interpretation of the work pictured. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The immediacy can be stunning, but it's a delicate dance: every biographical filmmaker knows that tough questions may cost them access. Movie Review: Taking Joan Rivers Seriously 2010-05-13T15:28:00Z I’m starting with this biographical outline — meandering around the edge of things — because that’s what Thompson did in his paintings. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The clip didn’t mention anything about Duncan’s role as a war critic, but other biographical details aligned. How obituaries got a jolt of new life in the Internet era 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z This three-part documentary claims to be about Bill Gates, but the biographical portions are not particularly fresh or insightful. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Each of the inmates, all of them serving long terms for violent crimes, has been given both the usual biographical rap sheet and a folkloric identity. Review: ‘ToasT’ Where Words Are a Cellblock’s Weapon of Choice 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Rylance is once again in understated mode for the biographical comedy “The Phantom of the Open,” which Sony Pictures Classics will release June 3. Mark Rylance on ‘Jerusalem’ and the Golf Comedy ‘Phantom of the Open’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z In a recent telephone interview, Ms. Mort said the proliferation of digital music and online biographical information has put new pressure on filmmakers to tell more compressed and sharply angled stories. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z Vivienne Eliot is, if not the elephant in the room of biographical studies about her husband, then certainly the parrot whose cage is routinely covered with a cloth. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z She quit to raise her child but found it difficult to restart her career — a biographical detail that informed her novel. The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Marshall is portrayed by Chadwick Boseman, who has starred in more comprehensive biographical dramas, playing Jackie Robinson in “42” and James Brown in “Get on Up.” It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z A biographical drama about Marie Heurtin, a young deaf and blind woman who became a dedicated nun in 19th century France. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z These biographical segments are juxtaposed with comments from creationist Christians, presented nonjudgmentally. Television Review: In ‘Questioning Darwin,’ No Easy Answers 2014-02-09T20:21:21Z But theatrical producer Stephen Hendel, a passionate fan, was determined to create a biographical show about the man, a musical with both artistic and mass-audience appeal. Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z The collections contain little in the way of biographical information — no context for when particular pieces were produced or reasons for their inclusion. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Directed by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Ford, this biographical drama airing on Presidents’ Day focuses on the early life of President Abraham Lincoln. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowfall’ and the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z All this loads Gauguin with even greater biographical baggage and contradiction than he encumbered himself with. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z But not biographical shows — rather, new stories incorporating the songs. Can Critics Learn to Love the Jukebox Musical? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Gund pinpoints salient biographical information, in particular the bricklaying job of Streb's adoptive father and how its intense physicality impressed her. 'Born to Fly' captures Elizabeth Streb in action 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And readers of this compact study would not be entirely mistaken if they described it as, in large degree, an unapologetic biographical study. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z And still later, he wrote extended biographical studies of figures like Michelangelo and Moses. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The biographical parts of the video are disappointingly skimpy on details, and the comments from London’s colleagues and contemporaries consist mostly of conventional flattery. Music: George London Foundation Contest Set for Morgan Library 2012-02-12T15:44:19Z White is proposing that moral and biographical complexity is worth a reader’s attention, even if he or she doesn’t agree with the writer’s politics. What Edmund White Thinks You Should Read 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z A moralistic inclination also sets much of the tone for the biographical interplay of Mulholland, Griffith and McPherson. Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But I never felt they neglected their biographical duty – critical examination – as much as the new breed of cultural superhero films do today in their rush to sell their cases to audiences reared on self-empowerment. Cloclo sends its cultural superhero on the same old personal journey 2012-06-20T13:11:52Z Hoffman, 46, who won a best actor Oscar for his role in the 2005 biographical film "Capote," was considered to be one of the finest stage and screen actors of his generation. Philip Seymour Hoffman leaves bulk of estate to long-term partner 2014-02-19T20:35:41Z Though Galgut’s novel stays meticulously close to the biographical record, the shape and feel of “Arctic Summer” is not at all that of a scholarly document but of a remarkable story beautifully told. Review: ‘Arctic Summer’ by Damon Galgut, a fictional biography of E.M. Forster But posthumous reputation is no longer guaranteed by a writer's quality: increasingly, it depends on the vagaries of fashion, biographical curiosity or politics. Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore 2011-03-28T11:18:29Z Though essentially biographical, “Nabokov in America” is also a work of criticism. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z It occupies an awkward biographical no man’s land. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z He retired this week at the age of 84, his departure commemorated by 60 Minutes on Sunday night with an hour-long biographical tribute. 5 Great Moments in the Life of '60 Minutes' Icon Morley Safer 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A short biographical section traces Thomas’s rise to the court this way: Clarence Thomas says a Smithsonian exhibit about him is wrong. (It’s not.) 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z That milkmaid — not just in “Winter” but also in biographical fact — was Gertie’s mother. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Their favorite response to even basic biographical questions has been “None of your business!” Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He adds: "I said in an interview about 12 years ago that writing about real biographical figures showed a sort of failure of the writer's imagination." Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z What biographical factors prepared him to write the poem? Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Brown noted that the Angels Camp experience is often brushed away quickly — "and then he spent three months in the mining camps" — before moving on to other biographical details of Twain's life. The frog that jump-started Mark Twain's career 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Readers who prefer straightforward historical and biographical writing may sigh with exasperation when Laurens turns particularly philosophical, imagining, for example, an inner life for Degas’ Little Dancer. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Born in upstate New York near Rochester, Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar for the 2005 biographical film "Capote," in which he played writer Truman Capote. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose 2014-02-03T00:14:00Z An offbeat premise made the biographical drama difficult to market, and poor reviews definitely didn’t help draw the kind of crowds that could help justify a production budget over $40 million. Box Office: 'Aquaman' debuts at No. 1 with $72 million, 'Mary... 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z I intended to write a straight biographical introduction to the photographs. This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith on Inhabiting the World of Billie Holiday 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z A biographical drama about Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of the Beach Boys. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But “Ruth,” as farcical as it is dead serious, is not just biographical. Review: Lionel Popkin’s ‘Ruth Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z In it the reporter, Clare Malone, parsed the details of his biographical comedy around growing up as a Muslim American and an Asian American. Hasan Minhaj Addresses Embellished Stories Detailed by The New Yorker 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The hit-making producers of the sitcom “Designing Women” crafted his swooning biographical film for the campaign; Fleetwood Mac, only a few years removed from their chart-topping days, reunited to play his inauguration. The golden age of the White House correspondents’ dinner (yes, there was one) 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The genre of biographical films has all but trained audiences to expect a certain amount of fictionalization with their facts, said Gary Lico, the chief executive of CableU, a research firm that tracks cable television. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z The result isn’t so much a biographical drama as a composite portrait of an artist who integrated his activism into his act. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The biographical drama with Keira Knightley and Dominic West about the life of the French novelist who was forced to publish her novels under her husband’s name. Box Office: 'The House With a Clock in Its Walls' leads with $26.8... 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z In 2001, Holmes tells us, he quite hesitantly agreed to offer a course on biographical writing at the University of East Anglia. An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Their creations — from a chessboard to a 3-D elephant with tusks, to trucks, spaceships and castles — are interspersed with tips and “Meet the Builder” biographical sections. Books Of Style: Surprising Histories, With Drinks 2011-12-16T22:36:27Z The problem is that after the English are defeated the show falls into biographical storytelling, a series of episodes concluding with Hamilton's death. Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps, as Stephen Walsh muses in his new biographical study, “Debussy: A Painter in Sound,” he was merely resorting to his skills as “an adept borrower.” John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z She was mostly based at a small temple in Kyoto, where she wrote hundreds of books from biographical novels to romance, often depicting women defying traditional roles. Japan’s outspoken nun and author Jakucho Setouchi dies at 99 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Cooper rose to acclaim at Vidalia, the venerable Southern lair in downtown Washington, a biographical detail that explains the many trips his menu takes below the Mason-Dixon line. Gypsy Soul: R.J. Cooper brings a wanderer’s touch and Southern flair For “Street Philosophy,” Dyer has taken a hundred of Winogrand’s photographs, arranged them “roughly chronologically” and provided illuminating context — biographical and historical — for each. Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In 2014 he was the subject of Mike Leigh’s gruff and witty biographical film “Mr. Turner,” with the miraculous Timothy Spall. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z It also indulges in the common biographical fallacy of grounding adult creativity in childhood misery. Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson 2013-12-12T15:00:18Z That sounds drearily academic, yet these biographical sketches and articles are anything but that. Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Berkeley Breathed's quirky biographical tale is one of the first of the holiday musicals to land on local stages this year. The Week Ahead: '127 Hours,' Dane Cook, Seattle Men's Chorus are highlights 2010-11-17T23:57:00Z Link to this video As a songwriter, she was compulsively biographical. Amy Winehouse: songs in the key of life 2012-07-22T17:00:12Z Eight years ago, Norton published “Cultural Amnesia,” a monumental collection of his biographical/critical essays about 110 key figures in modern art, literature, politics and history. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But in the lectures, Milch masterfully ties this traumatic biographical event to his overall aesthetic theory in a way that is as moving as the finale of any season of any show he wrote. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z "She came back to London, doubly rejected by Garnet Trowell, and at that point she wrote the story … It's does have significant biographical implications," said Kimber. Lost Katherine Mansfield short story unearthed 2012-07-23T14:16:38Z To that point: Every biographical narrative can be said to be inherently reductive and exploitative. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Like similar volumes, “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway” provides a scholarly and biographical introduction, lots of illustrations and extensive marginal notes that explain obscurities, identify people and places, and provide interpretive comment. Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z On the back flap, Ms. Alexander’s paragraph of biographical details is longer than the author’s. Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In the end, the subject of this fascinating book is not just historical or biographical uncertainty, but psychological and moral ambiguity. How to Survive the Titanic, or The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:03Z The biographical introduction may exasperate readers by presenting too much information about Downing’s ancestry and family. Reading for a winter’s night: The detective fiction of Todd Downing 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The fannish obsessiveness that animates “The Raven” is its most appealing attribute, and even Poe scholars can forgive it for discarding the biographical record in favor of playful, gruesome fantasy. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z In “A Delicate Aggression,” David O. Dowling, an associate professor at Iowa’s journalism school, tells the “cultural and industrial history” of the workshop through a series of biographical portraits. Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Featuring lengthy new interviews, this well-produced hour-long special included plenty of biographical material, archive Radio 1 recordings – including the first time they played outside of North America – and sweet insights. Radio review: The Story of Arcade Fire 2010-08-03T07:00:00Z The Diplomat” does its stylish best to make the elder Holbrooke’s biographical details — the clip job, basically — zing with ambitious exploit and achievement. Barney Frank, Richard Holbrooke and the pitfalls of making a wonkumentary 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The biographical part of “RBG” tells a story that is both typical and exceptional. Review: In ‘RBG,’ the Life and Times of a Beloved and Controversial Supreme Court Justice 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z When he looks back, Munn tells me, his abrupt shift in biographical style was brought about by two things. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z Two other high-profile world premieres bookend the festival, with “The Walk” getting the party started on Saturday and “Miles Ahead,” Don Cheadle’s biographical portrait of Miles Davis, bringing it to a close on Oct. New York Film Festival: The Perils of Popularity 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Thurgood Marshall would be a good candidate for a dusty and dutiful biographical drama, one surveying his central role in Brown v. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z While partly biographical, it’s mainly a cultural history of a certain sort of romantic, nostalgic Englishness. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The movie is not a biographical film and will instead feature a slapstick trio in new comedy sketches based on the original Stooges. ArtsBeat: Calling Dr. Fine: Sean Hayes to Play Larry in 'Three Stooges' Movie 2011-04-05T13:27:52Z In many respects, “Becoming Astrid” is your standard biographical drama, its familiar beats untroubled by narrative daring or stylistic surprises. ‘Becoming Astrid’ Review: A Children’s Author Finds Her Voice 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The book will combine passages by Lynch writing about his own life with biographical sections about the filmmaker by McKenna. David Lynch is writing a memoir: Will it reveal what Dennis Hopper was inhaling in 'Blue Velvet'? 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z All are biographical and tell some version of the real story, often based on the lives of the authors or their families. Motherlode Blog: Book Shopping for the Holidays 2011-11-15T02:22:18Z In a good work of historical or biographical fiction, there’s a magical synthesis between fact and creativity. Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z These pages include single paragraphs of biographical info, but they’re rendered practically unreadable by formatting. The Big Secret of Celebrity Wealth (Is That No One Knows Anything) 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The exhibition also contains some biographical comics; one particular one is about a Tibetan saint called Milarepa. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z If your grasp on the Virahanka-Fibonacci sequence is as hazy as mine, the biographical sections are honey. ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The reductive biographical reading of fiction is the least interesting. Good sex in literature: why is it so hard to find? 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z The Pulitzer Prize committee shared this assessment, awarding her the prize for poetry in 1987 for her beautiful, biographical treatment of her grandparents through a series of interconnected poems, “Thomas and Beulah.” Rita Dove: “The first thing that goes when a government becomes a tyranny are words” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Just as you’re about to settle into, say, Jackson’s Montana upbringing, his career as a gangly Knick or his spirituality and adventures with psychedelics, it’s onward to add those biographical chips to the team mosaic. In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Both exhibitions are full of biographical hints for the curious. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover man behind myth 2011-07-05T12:25:40Z Yet the couple’s ideological approach hasn’t precluded them from packing an enormous amount of biographical information and useful insight into “The Fellowship.” ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Enter "Stardust," British filmmaker Gabriel Range's biographical drama about the life of the music sensation before he became a worldwide cultural icon. "Stardust" trailer: David Bowie biopic tells the origin story of a music icon 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Filmmakers who frequently work on biographical movies say that success in the genre requires a command of the historical record and the instincts to know when to set history aside. ?The Kennedys?: After the Debate, the Debut 2011-03-28T18:18:19Z At least in memory, Princess Grace will now return to Cannes on Wednesday evening, with the opening-night gala premiere of a biographical film, “Grace of Monaco.” Special Report: Cannes Film Festival: A Hollywood Princess Returns to the Screen 2014-05-13T12:37:57Z In the decades since, Wertheim and Sorrentino have labored to sift the truth about Crane’s life from the myth, editing his correspondence and a log of biographical documents. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z In particular, Michael Oberholtzer, as Mungitt, seems to disappear into his damaged self when he isn’t spewing bizarre biographical tidbits or hatred. Review: In ‘Take Me Out,’ Whose Team Are You On? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The Campanellis pored through archives, piecing together biographical data about 18th- and 19th-century schoolgirls who embroidered alphabets and scenery on linen, silk and canvas. Antiques: Third-Century Cutlery at Auction; Schoolgirls’ Samplers 2013-05-23T19:54:39Z The Sheridan Morley prize is given annually to a theatre-related book with a biographical bent. Rupert Everett scoops Sheridan Morley prize for memoir Vanished Years 2013-02-27T12:07:41Z Getting to the core of Vreeland herself is a harder task, since seldom was a biographical subject quite so unreflective of her own process. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z Mr. Reeves said he was not particularly a fan of biographical drama or the historical fiction it perpetrates. ?The Kennedys?: After the Debate, the Debut 2011-03-28T18:18:19Z It’s one of many biographical moments that illustrate how he developed the tools for the closet, how to live with things that, as he put it, “exist but don’t exist.” Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But it's a late stab at draping something meaningful over a mostly jumbled array of biographical swatches. 'Saint Laurent's' stylish biopic can't tie threads together 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “Logevall artfully melds the biographical and historical approaches. Though crafted as a kind of bildungsroman, ‘JFK’ delivers something more than the traditional story of the callow wastrel’s maturation into the admirable adult.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Boele explained that his aim was not a strict biographical presentation. A Hermitage Amsterdam Show Looks Closer at Catherine the Great 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Will’s biographical details are doled out dutifully, with a hint of mystery—ooh, why does he know sign language?—but not enough. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The film, Serkis’ second directing project after the Andrew Garfield-starring biographical drama “Breathe,” is a prequel of sorts to “The Jungle Book” and finds Serkis working with the motion capture technology he helped pioneer. Andy Serkis brings Gollum back to ridicule Brexit and Theresa May 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Though she gives each of her subjects distinct life, Wheeler's purpose is not solely biographical; each woman also serves to illuminate a different facet of the America she found, whether in Illinois, Kentucky, or California. O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler – review 2013-04-06T15:00:01Z The information includes the biographical basics — address, e-mail, occupation, spouse, children — and an account of their lives, often true, over the last half-decade. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z Instead of merely chronicling Williams’s rise as an author on the world stage and his death nearly forty years later, Lahr has made a critical and biographical mosaic. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z This biographical excursion is hardly irrelevant — it clarifies Bergoglio’s political views, and also his fallibility — but the information could have been conveyed in a less literal manner. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z He also conceived and directed the 2010 biographical revue “Sondheim on Sondheim,” which incorporated interviews with Mr. Sondheim. Send in the Cameras: Sondheim on TV 2013-12-06T21:32:34Z On playing King in the biographical jukebox musical, Mueller told The Times, "I knew I couldn't sound just like her, but I couldn't just sound like Jessie singing it." Tonys 2014: Jessie Mueller wins lead actress in a musical 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The groundbreaking, biographical hip-hop show about the life of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards and made numerous tours. ‘Hamilton’ by original cast coming to a film screen near you 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z And biographical panels tell of the organizations that have contributed to the exhibition, whose triumphs are palpable. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z The argument about alchemy advanced by Metzler in her biographical essay enhances the understanding of Spranger’s work beyond the obvious and simple fact that he worked for a notoriously sensual emperor. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met He started painting biographical mementoes in the background. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z The edition I chose for my students did not help: It had no notes, no biographical material, no supplemental readings, no appendixes, no chronologies and no historical, scientific or political context. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Spector later released music as a solo artist, including for the underground independent label Kill Rock Stars, and staged a biographical one-woman show, “Beyond the Beehive,” in 2012. Ronnie Spector, Who Brought Edge to Girl-Group Sound, Dies at 78 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z What has been missing from the biographical record of the final months is Plath’s own voice. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Each woman is represented by as much biographical information as Mr. Rössler was able to unearth and at least one photograph, taken by teachers, fellow students, spouses, lovers or themselves. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “Makandal” is not strictly biographical, though, as it shifts between myth and reality, the past and the present. Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera 2013-07-28T21:33:45Z “Without the usual biographical hints tucked into conversations and internal thoughts, Eggers differentiates between Four and Nine solely through their reactions to the post-civil-war devastation around them,” Idra Novey writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z For all her readiness to bare her flesh, Ms. Rampling reveals little of her inner life, and the film stints on biographical information. | 'Charlotte Rampling: The Look': ?Charlotte Rampling: The Look? ? Review 2011-11-03T21:24:34Z In general, I am not a fan of biographical picture books, especially when the subject is an artist. Portraits of Three Artists as Young Children 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But as far as I’m concerned, this biographical treatment of Salvador Dalí’s sister Anna Maria is one of the most peculiarly disorienting movies I’ve seen in some time. ‘Miss Dalí’ Review: A Disorienting Biography of Surrealist’s Sister 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Can You Ever Forgive Me? director Marielle Heller will also bring her latest film to Toronto, biographical drama A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as much-loved kids TV personality Mister Rogers. Oscar season heats up as J-Lo, Hanks and an imaginary Hitler head to Toronto 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z This kind of biographical insight is illuminating only because her stories resist traditional reading. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It was just the kind of biographical research that journalists routinely do, except this felt less like work than like the urgent and resourceful state one enters upon developing a new crush. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Garth Johnson of Arizona State University's Ceramics Research Center organized the exhibition, which would benefit from brief biographical introductions of the artists and notes to frame works. Ceramics as a performance art: Pomona museum puts clay in motion on screen 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z That act of coercion by confidence occurs in the opening seconds of Michael Grandage’s compelling production of this biographical drama about a scientific discovery and the pride and prejudice behind it. Review: In ‘Photograph 51,’ Nicole Kidman Is a Steely DNA Scientist 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z If there is an upset here, it will most likely come from “MJ,” the biographical jukebox musical that follows Michael Jackson as he prepares for a world tour. The 75th Tony Awards: Here’s What to Expect 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s biographical documentary was released less than two months before the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s death, and it serves as a fitting tribute to her life and legacy. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z “Hannah Arendt”: This biographical drama looks at the life of the philosopher and political theorist. Bite of Seattle, Pow Wow | Weekend Preview 2013-07-17T20:03:29Z That biographical detail helps explain the exhibition's title — "Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful" — which was later stamped on official papers when he fled Czechoslovakia to London exile. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The anarchists and blood-crazed mob are absent from the attractive biographical movie “Colette,” which takes a light, enjoyably fizzy approach to its subject. Review: ‘Colette’ and One Woman’s Lust for Life 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It embeds biographical material within layers of literary, gender and queer theory. Festival of Books: Female writers talk 'mansplaining,' un-motherhood 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s hard to argue, from a biographical standpoint, with the attention given to career-making but mediocre films like “Good Morning, Vietnam,” “Dead Poets Society” and “Awakenings.” Review: A Serious Look at the Life of Robin Williams 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z There are a fair number of undramatised biographical passages, which make for bumpy reading, even if one takes a latitudinarian position about the role of information in novelistic prose. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z Cusk’s heartbreaking portrait of poise, sympathy, regret and rage suggests a powerful alternate route for the biographical novel. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The clutch of highly visible biographical pictures has turned the festival into a sampler of the many ways that filmmakers take that most precious narrative commodity, a real life, in hand. Roman Polanski and Graham Chapman Biopics at Toronto 2012-09-11T22:01:26Z In fact, Gioia writes, “I trust the songs more than biographical facts.” Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The biographical jukebox musical — of which “Jersey Boys” provides a shining example, thanks to all the Brylcreem — is the cockroach of Broadway. Review: Hot Stuff Turns Cold in ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z His biographical method — combining fragments, lists, excerpts, quotes and flights of whimsy — is executed as brilliantly here as in 2017’s glittering “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.” Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z A segment about him airs on "60 Minutes" this month and Malik Bendjellou's biographical documentary, "Searching for Sugar Man," named after Rodriguez's best-known song, is already playing in theaters. Rodriguez helps Light in the Attic celebrate 10 years of revivals 2012-10-09T18:02:04Z Weschler calls his book “a biographical memoir,” suggesting a special hybrid, an exciting convergence, an interplay of revelations about Sacks and the author. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The playlist has become a kind of biographical shorthand, a way of communicating something essential about ourselves through the performance of taste. When Politicians Make Playlists 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But anything they tackle that is intellectual, historical, biographical, cultural… It all turns into a travelogue of some kind. Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation 2013-06-15T16:45:00Z This is all interesting, in its biographical way. The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael Sims - review 2011-08-03T15:30:01Z When the project was announced Mr. Baryshnikov said that the show would not be biographical and would focus on Mr. Brodsky’s poetry, which will be performed in Russian with supertitles. Baryshnikov to Perform at His Arts Center for First Time Since 2010 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z I want to do more of it in maybe a more traditional, biographical format more so than a weird art book. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Musicals often rely on familiar patterns — a patter song here, an “I want” number there — and biographical musicals might well be the most predictable of all. Review: ‘Little Girl Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Nobody can say for sure; the biographical record is sparse, and information about his artistic process is almost nonexistent. The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The film’s fidelity to the letter of biographical truth occasionally puts it in the territory of sports-drama cliché. ‘Rise’ Review: To Be Giannis 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Tóibín takes a personal approach to biographical discovery, dovetailing reminiscences of his own Dublin days with anecdotes about his subjects. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Each document appears in full color alongside an English translation and a brief biographical description. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z An earlier version of the biographical note with this review garbled the middle name and the surname of the author who wrote “Mighty, Mighty Construction Site,” the most recent book illustrated by the reviewer. What Not to Tell the Kids When the Goldfish Dies, and Other Lessons From Pet Picture Books 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Instead Parks conflates artistic innovation with biographical examination. "Aretha" crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo's own genius 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Seat of learning … the Latin author Aulus Gellius at work in his writing chair Our biographical knowledge of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean writers is patchy and often two-dimensional. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z If his gnomic remark is not supportable in any real biographical sense, there is little doubt Kahlo continues to exist as a potent figure of myth. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But as “Look at the Pictures” demonstrates through its absorbing biographical scope, Mapplethorpe wasn’t an idealist, nor was he always a fun guy to be around. HBO’s Mapplethorpe doc does the artist a big favor: It makes him naughty again 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The author of “The Paris Wife,” based on Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage, writes a biographical novel about his third wife, journalist Martha Gellhorn. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The folks at Bluewater Productions have already made a name for themselves in the biographical comic book business. | Charlie Sheen 2011-03-10T17:15:16Z Moss is a Scientologist, and has been from birth, a biographical nugget about her that tends to surprise and oddly sadden people. Elisabeth Moss: 'We're not saving the world here' 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z This exhibition’s biographical focus accounts for much of its impact. Art Review: At Acquavella, Art From Robert and Ethel Scull?s Collection 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z The last third of the book is a series of short biographical essays about the “patron saints of pessimism.” Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z A biographical drama about the French casino heiress Agnès Le Roux was manipulated into handing her mother's establishment over to the mob and subsequently vanished. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The biographical facts are one thing: having split his band, Pearson found himself unable to write, thinking that his previous work would be hard to top. This week's new live music 2011-03-19T00:06:11Z Though biographical obligations sometimes strangled the book, even its narrative failings were saved by outlandish directorial choices. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z It wouldn’t be the ‘Soul Train’ dance show, it would be more of a biographical look at the project,” he said. ?Soul Train? Creator Don Cornelius Reported Dead of Suicide 2012-02-01T14:51:26Z Bailey avoids it all, offering readings of the most tepid kind, primarily noticing biographical correspondences, most of them familiar by now. In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Because of that, I suspect there may be people are going to come to this particular biographical treatment with some expectation that you will address this or analyze it. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Through the biographical self-reflective framework of the doc, Alexander leads the viewer to examine art from a psychological and representational perspective. ‘A Man Named Scott’ Review: Bending Genres, Coping With Struggles 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The new trailer for James Ponsoldt's biographical drama "The End of the Tour," however, finds Wallace -- as played by Jason Segel -- standing on the precipice of fame and clinging to normalcy. 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z It was a fact that neither man could completely explain about the genesis of “Behind the Candelabra,” a biographical film covering the private life of Liberace that will have its debut next Sunday on HBO. Liberace’s Tale, From Michael Douglas and Steven Soderbergh 2013-05-17T21:54:42Z The highlights-only approach is a problem in most biographical musicals, exacerbated in “Funny Girl” by its unusually high quotient of fictionalization. Review: Broadway’s First ‘Funny Girl’ Revival Shows Why It Took So Long 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Without any biographical sketching or preamble, “King in the Wilderness” deliberately skips ahead to a low moment in King’s story — well after the 1963 March on Washington, after Selma. Review | HBO documentary about MLK’s final years shows an exhausted, conflicted hero 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z A lot of the book is about how the biographical approach to criticism can lead down blind alleys. Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z The valuable support material includes biographical notes on the creators, complete credits for the original Broadway productions, and evocative illustrations ranging from full-color show posters to photographs of the actors in performance. Book review: ‘American Musicals,’ two vols., edited by Laurence Maslon 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Not that the play provides the bullet point climaxes you would expect in a standard biographical drama. Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Lives an Ordinary, Extraordinary Life 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Odd, then, that the sadly pedestrian new production of William Gibson’s 1959 biographical drama is by far most effective when it is wordless. Theater Review | 'The Miracle Worker': Taming a Child by Setting Her Free 2010-03-04T03:22:00Z Finch's prose is keen and crisp, and while his biographical sketches are astute, it is his writing on art that distinguishes this book. 'Chuck Close: Life': The Northwest native painter who brought the portrait back to modern art 2010-05-26T23:49:00Z But now I had follow-up questions, ones based on clues from the movies and biographical information I know from previous interviews — was anything inspired by a specific relationship? Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Stephen, could you talk about how you conducted your research and compiled the biographical materials you used to write your screenplays? ArtsBeat: Camelot Revisited: The Creators of 'The Kennedys' Speak Out 2011-03-24T14:07:03Z Basing his script on the same-titled book about the group by art critic William Feaver, Hall's version is biographical and pictorial but also laced with philosophical debates about the personal and social nature of art. 'The Pitmen Painters': Miners discover their inner artist 2012-04-30T19:59:04Z Sassoon’s complaints about rock ’n’ roll and his conversion to Roman Catholicism feel more like duly noted biographical facts than expressions of character. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “I characterize it as a biographical musical drama and not a jukebox musical,” he said. Neil Diamond Bio-Musical Sets Sights on Broadway 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Asked where one might find some biographical information on her, she joked, “I have a Duane Reade card, so they have some information on me, I am sure.” Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The ruling came more than a year after the judge previously declined to block the release of "Lovelace," an R-rated biographical film detailing the life of "Deep Throat" star Linda Lovelace. 'Deep Throat' production company loses 'Lovelace' copyright case 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z For a concept that could easily have devolved into shtick, this struck the right balance between biographical portraiture, charming nostalgia, and loving remembrance. Review | Celebrating the Bernstein centennial with a family album 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z "I am an odd case,"Amis says, referring to a biographical rarity he is fond of. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z I felt compelled to provide the biographical material at the start of this review because this collection’s foreword, by the poet Elizabeth Alexander, is nearly fact free and perfectly unhelpful. Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z I made him Jewish and ex-religious and put a lot of biographical elements in his character. "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Leavy covers her biographical bases: She revisits Ruth’s upbringing at a Catholic reformatory school in Baltimore, the hasty and unhappy marriage he made in Boston and his sullen retirement spent largely in exile from baseball. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Where many annotated editions come across as perfunctory and unimaginative, this one truly illuminates its text with an abundance of relevant historical, biographical and literary material. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z On one level, the show is an admiring biographical gloss of Carson’s career as a writer and proto-environmental activist, with a strong feminist subtext. Music Review: Nellie McKay on Rachel Carson and Mother Nature 2012-03-22T20:41:49Z A profile on the ABC newsmagazine “20/20” soon followed, and Mr. Macy, who saw it, was moved to start work on a biographical screenplay. Bill Porter, an Exceptional Salesman Who Inspired a Film, Dies at 81 2013-12-10T01:38:58Z Without the usual biographical hints tucked into conversations and internal thoughts, Eggers differentiates between Four and Nine solely through their reactions to the post-civil-war devastation around them. A Road-Paving Job Takes On a Sinister Allure in Dave Eggers’s New Novel 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z He’s used this persona to find a niche in the currently ubiquitous genre of the biographical sitcom. Review: James Van Der Beek, From ‘Dawson’s Creek’ to an Alt-Diplo 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z But inevitably, as the museum show shifts from examining how America shaped Oprah to how Oprah shaped America, it begins to feel a little like a triumphal march, a sort of biographical bubble bath. Review | The new Oprah exhibit looks like a reward for her $21 million donation. But honestly, she deserves it. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It asks some tough questions about the art world’s handling of artists with disabilities, challenging us to unravel Ms. Scott’s tightly wound creations without looking for a biographical thread. Wrapped in Complexity 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z None of this is to say that it’s never valuable to consider a piece of art on its own terms, or that biographical details necessarily make for illuminating connections. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Groff’s script never really integrates this fascinating biographical detail into Silver’s character. | 'Compulsion': The Young Girl Pulls the Strings in This Relationship 2011-02-18T03:01:01Z What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ Chris Marker, who died earlier this year at 91, was an enigmatic figure, reluctant to be photographed and prone to biographical embellishment. The Inspiration Issue: What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ 2012-09-26T15:52:19Z And if viewers do tune in, are their tastes eclectic enough to bring them back the next week for Cameron Crowe’s very different biographical film of the Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam? Television: From PBS, a Sampler Festival 2011-10-09T03:30:15Z Yet when Smith tries to fill in the long life that preceded Eliot’s final months, the prose sags and reminds one too much of stale biographical exposition. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Gypsies, tramps, thieves and ticket holders will be lining up for this biographical musical. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Late Associated Press writer Bob Thomas contributed biographical information to this report. Actor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z “The Ascension” leaps to an opposite extreme: synthetic and outsized rather than intimately acoustic, metaphysical instead of biographical. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Both families and literary estates cause problems for biographical truth-seekers even before a film is being made, of course. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z It was around this time that I dropped out of high school, a nugget of biographical trivia that makes me a sort of exotic amongst educated liberals. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The jukebox musical, especially of the biographical persuasion, is littered with clunkers — for every “Beautiful,” there is a “Lennon,” a “Ring of Fire” or a “Baby, It’s You!” Review: ‘Jersey Boys,’ Downsized 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “Now You Know” is a high point of “Sondheim on Sondheim,” the biographical anthology of his songs, conceived and directed by James Lapine for the Roundabout Theater Company at Studio 54. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z She is also able to provide a historical context for what appear to be anti-Semitism and racism in the novel, and to supply the relevant biographical data to account for Fitzgerald’s ambivalent feelings about America. ‘So We Read On: How “The Great Gatsby” Came to Be,’ by Maureen Corrigan We used ourselves initially as a jumping-off point, but we quickly realized that we couldn’t make it entirely biographical because it wouldn’t be compelling television. “My friends and I are indoor kids”: Paul Rust on “Love’s” dorky movie themes, working with Judd Apatow and subverting rom-com clichés 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z And if you would argue that historical data does not support Henry’s account, which brims fulsomely with the misty clichés of biographical writing — well, you’re just being pedantic, aren’t you? Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Only a few scraps of biographical information survive. A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z They wait 280 pages to offer a biographical sketch of Miller, which raises more questions than it answers. How Donald Trump’s Obsession With Immigrants Has Shaped His Presidency 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Olmsted's life story is fabulous biographical material, and Martin largely makes the most of it. 'Genius of Place': the restless genius of Frederick Law Olmsted, America's first landscape architect 2011-06-22T19:04:05Z In the biographical area, which includes black-and-white photographs, personal objects and reproductions of historic documents, I learned that Mondrian grew up in a “God-fearing Protestant family,” with an older sister and three younger brothers. Mondrian’s World: From Primary Colors to the Boogie Woogie 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z A biographical note identifies Chou as the nom de plume of a middle-aged white poet from Indiana named Michael Derrick Hudson. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z In the suit, Ms. Cooper argued that the book’s protagonist, Aibileen Clark, was clearly based on her given the first name as well as some other significant biographical details. ArtsBeat Blog: A Victory in Court for the Author of 'The Help' 2011-08-16T22:02:05Z And I'm afraid the biographical material is pretty poor stuff. CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z This picture appears at the Whitney in one of the retrospective’s most overtly biographical installations, titled “South Carolina.” Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Meadows is clearly not interested in lifting the biographical lid on anyone, just getting alongside the band, and picking up on their energy, vulnerability and excitement. The Stone Roses: Made of Stone – review 2013-06-06T19:15:01Z A new form of biographical criticism flourishes in books like Phyllis Rose’s beloved “Parallel Lives,” which treat a writer’s work as continuous with his private life, detecting the mythologies and political assumptions governing both. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z More prosaically, perhaps, graphic designer Nicholas Felton compiled various biographical data to produce a visually spectacular tribute to his father after he died. Taking My Measure 2011-04-06T22:00:00Z If this sounds evocative to you, you may be the audience for “Inventing Mary Martin,” a biographical revue presented by the York Theater Company. Theater Review: ‘Inventing Mary Martin,’ With 3 Singers in the Title Role 2014-04-28T02:00:01Z Mr. Hughes’s book is smart and populated without ever exactly feeling ambitious; it reads like a set of genial biographical sketches. Books of The Times: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Take Me In 2011-08-16T16:57:42Z Amid all the arguments about skin tone, perhaps it's worth asking whether we need another biographical examination of one of history's biggest celebrities. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Still, as with many biographical documentaries made in cooperation with famous people, the narrative is primarily filtered through the subject’s recollection and retelling. 'Who is the real person?': inside a revealing docuseries on Hillary Clinton 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Saturday showing of "Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child," a new biographical documentary she coproduced. EMP commemorates 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death 2010-09-17T17:42:00Z The typical biographical information on wall labels in museums and galleries across the world. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The Oakland Athletics get a boost from bean counting and a man named Beane in this biographical drama. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Merry Wives’ and George Carlin 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The volume, which took 10 years to write, is the first in his planned "All These Years" biographical trilogy. Author's dive into Beatles story still has depths to explore 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Mary Bridget Davies stars in this tribute to the singer, which mixes Joplin’s music with biographical reflections. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Creed’ and ‘First Reformed’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z He told the paper in a 2010 interview that plans were being made for a biographical “Soul Train” movie. ?Soul Train? Creator Don Cornelius Reported Dead of Suicide 2012-02-01T14:51:26Z Mr. Broder might consider redirecting his passion into a biographical play. Review: Lord Buckley, Remembrance of a Hipster Past 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z For a writer as good as Borges, he argued, "the stories so completely transcend their motive facts that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant." Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace – review 2012-08-30T07:00:41Z Ko Un’s work is expansive: he writes love poems and political poems, biographical poems and meditations on nature. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z As its title and subtitle promise, this film is not principally biographical, though there is some information about Ms. Purcell’s childhood and her marriage. Review: ‘An Art That Nature Makes,’ an Illuminating Look at Rosamond Purcell 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z While its subjects — Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama — each have a “compelling and gripping” story, the sum is even greater, Bier said of her first biographical project. ‘First Lady’ drama spotlights Roosevelt, Ford, Obama spouses 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Adding to the sense of urgency is the fact that another biographical film, called “Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story,” is in preproduction. Amanda Seyfried Plays Linda Lovelace in Biopic 2012-02-12T07:53:05Z At this point, Crawford enters more familiar biographical territory. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z She grew up as an only child, but there was one unusual biographical wrinkle: she has four half-brothers and half-sisters from her father’s previous marriage. Rosemarie DeWitt Explores Family Friction 2010-05-18T21:11:00Z Instead of dramatizing Kahlo’s physical and emotional torments and her notoriously tempestuous relationship with Rivera realistically, they embed these biographical details in the mythic context of a Day of the Dead ritual. From the Underworld to Our World: An Opera About Frida and Diego 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z "I didn't experience gang fighting or anything like that," he says, refusing to indulge in the romantic biographical licence which many young actors allow themselves. Conor McCarron: 'I'd gladly audition for a comedy role' 2010-12-26T00:05:08Z Sorely lacking from this volume is an introductory biographical essay, to familiarize readers with the span of Ms. Politkovskaya’s life and work, and to put these articles into context. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z In his seminal essay “The Death of the Author,” French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes argues that a text’s meaning can neither be derived from its author’s biographical information nor from his intent. Best of Salon: Why “The Sopranos” final scene haunts us still 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z However, he noted that his father's filmography also includes the crime thrillers "The History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises" and the biographical "A Dangerous Method," which are not in the sci-fi genre at all. Like father like son? Brandon Cronenberg debuts with 'Antiviral' 2013-04-12T21:38:08Z Although "The Violet Hour" is unlikely to move you to tears, it sure offers plenty of thought-provoking psycho-literary analysis and intimate biographical details to satisfy your morbid curiosity. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Stewart gave her age as 91, though biographical sources differ on her precise date of birth. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z Hanks most recently graced the big screen in the biographical drama "Saving Mr. Banks," about the fractious working relationship between "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin to get Kennedy Center Honors 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z This short, dense book is partly a group of abbreviated biographical commentaries, partly about Freud’s career and writings until 1906. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z It would be more of a biographical look at the project,” he said. Don Cornelius, ?Soul Train? Creator, Is Dead 2012-02-01T16:23:12Z Little biographical information is given, for example, about either the author or her husband. Review: A Widow Documents Her Loss in ‘The Iceberg’ 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The retrospective was jointly presented by the American Society for Jewish Music and the Leo Baeck Institute and included a helpful biographical introduction by Michael Beckerman, a musicologist at New York University. Review: Summoning Erwin Schulhoff’s Zest for Life 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Decades later, "Mr Lacy the player" would be one of Aubrey's sources for biographical material on Jonson. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z By deliberately opting for a TV-biopic approach, it became the latest entry in the lists of failed biographical operas. Success or failure? 2011-02-18T10:18:29Z Ethan Hawke, who directed and occasionally appears on camera, provides a generous amount of biographical details about his subject while omitting others. Review: ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ Is a Lesson in Perseverance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Teddy is a fraught choice for biographical treatment these days, a trustbusting conservationist who was also a big-game hunter with a dubious view of racial equality, appearing almost buffoonish behind his pince-nez and buck teeth. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The critic David Thomson knew as much when he wrote his 1985 novel Suspects, which weaves biographical connections between memorable characters in cinema. The second coming of Jesus: how the Big Lebowski bowler was resurrected 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The truth is that Boseman actually cornered a market with his inner elasticity and, at least for me, exploded the parameters of what biographical moviemaking ought to be. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z "It is possible, however, that important biographical material about Brod himself and other friends of Kafka will emerge," he says. Were Lost Kafka Masterpieces Stashed Away in a Swiss Bank? 2010-07-23T06:55:00Z The main reason Minny Temple has attracted so much biographical speculation, though, is because she is pretty much a blank slate. The Late Late Phase 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It just means treating objects and images as more than a biographical record, but as vectors in a grand and global network of images and ideas. Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z His visually beautiful, sly and idiosyncratic biographical portrait of the great 17th-century Italian artist is an enduring delight, and particularly interesting relative to contemporary discourse concerning artists behaving badly. ‘Caravaggio’ and Other Pleasures and Provocations for Pride Month 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Pitch Perfect star’s book, a series of humorous biographical essays, is set to be published in the fall of 2016 by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Anna Kendrick Is Writing a Book of Essays 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z And the biographical details about the college, law school and fraternity that shaped Crump tease his roots in Black communities. ‘Civil: Ben Crump’ Review: What Becomes of a Missed Opportunity? 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Based purely on his biographical particulars, Mr. Seliger is not the obvious candidate to create a book about the current transgender moment. A Trans Life, Captured by Mark Seliger 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Guy's long speeches on the subject of his illness are bludgeoning, difficult to read even without the underlying hum of biographical contiguity. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-16T07:00:00Z The letter serves as Salinger’s manifesto against the whole biographical industrial complex, which he saw stretching from the tabloids to academia. 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded for a body of work, cited Buck’s “rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China” and her “biographical masterpieces.” A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades 2013-05-21T21:00:02Z As Colm Toibin writes in “The Magician,” his biographical novel about Mann, the author “needed to get the diaries out of Munich.” Colm Toibin Imagines the Life of Thomas Mann in ‘The Magician’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z There is little biographical information about Villalpando, whose most important works are in churches and rarely travel. From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z "It's biographical, because I feel I'm living that dance every day. I also feel physically challenged, but I'm not frantic about getting things perfectly right as before. That freedom makes my dancing stronger than ever." For Garth Fagan, a life choreographed by his love of movement 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z This small change would be a significant inconvenience for those invested in complete biographical accuracy, such as library cataloging teams. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In her superb “Virginia Woolf,” she boldly and woolfishly rethought biographical form and managed to bring a complicated novelist alive. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Bestsellers don’t necessarily translate to a blockbuster, especially when they’re bestsellers of the biographical/memoir sort. Box office: 'Interview,' 'Unbroken' and a busy, bizarre weekend 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The title character of this biographical show is not a household name, unless the house hosts a coven of musical-theater experts. Theater to Stream: ‘Wicked in Concert,’ Christopher Lloyd as Lear 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Every year one or two biographical tales surface as standouts, so artfully executed the films go toe to toe with the industry's imaginative best. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z But a few biographical details may trace a suggestive silhouette without exposing the entire picture. Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies 2012-09-05T18:21:19Z At 62, Sting can still claim to be a rock star — and isn’t that the best biographical identifier possible? Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting But on this biographical question, the Calov volumes turn out to be acutely instructive. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Though she is an invention, Kiki has never lacked for biographical detail. Kiki and Herb Make America Great Again 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z It provides no biographical information about Mr. Stanford, no publishing history and places him in no real context. Review: ‘What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z For most of “Asperger’s Children,” however, she seems interested less in a complex biographical portrait than an indictment, as she methodically marshals her evidence and lays out her argument. Once Viewed as a Savior of Children, Hans Asperger Is Now Called a Nazi Collaborator 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The painter and designer Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf’s older sister, never kept a diary, but Priya Parmar’s intimate biographical novel imagines what might have happened if she had. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Dos Passos presents his eccentric biographical sketches of Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt alongside portraits of radicals: the Socialist Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, the radical essayist Randolph Bourne, the labor organizer Joe Hill. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z In a sense, Holiday’s life was one long spiral toward tragedy, but Szwed seldom takes biographical advantage of the rich documentary material he finds. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This continual looking back over the shoulder to childood, to his mother and father, takes Naked Lennon beyond the merely biographical: it gives it a depth and a Freudian quality. Naked Lennon 2010-06-23T23:05:00Z There is certainly a plethora of biographical information for viewers to take into account in his documentary, debuting Friday on Showtime. Coming to Terms With the Legacy of Rick James 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “He is alternately precise and concealing. His biographical sections are both elliptical and redolent of entire lives. His art criticism is often stirring.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In his new book, Cullen spends barely three pages on the Parkland gunman, giving just the barest biographical details, mostly about his depression, and referring to him only as the “mass murderer.” How the Parkland Shooting Led to a Generation’s Political Awakening 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z By contrast, the words of biographical subjects are gold. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Such a biographical detail would not normally be relevant but Sullivan's third novel, The Engagements, follows the trajectory of a diamond engagement ring from 1901 to 2012. The Engagements by J Courtney Sullivan – review 2013-07-20T13:00:06Z An earlier version of the biographical note with this review misstated the title of a novel written by the reviewer. A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z There’s actually a Web site called NNDB, where they list people’s biographical statistics, like your date of birth and religion. | Terry Gross: Can ‘Fresh Air’ Kill Plants? 2012-07-22T03:22:12Z They bonded over their taste in ’90s R&B, along with their biographical similarities, which included being raised in religious homes by struggling single mothers. Poo Bear, Speaking Softly and Carrying a Bieber Comeback 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Of such encounters are biographical musicals sometimes made. Perspective | Will ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ be better than other jukebox musicals? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The standard biographical approach may not be Thomson’s main concern, but he doesn’t neglect it entirely. How the four Warner brothers built a movie empire that conquered the world 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Unlike other recent biographical musicals like “On Your Feet!” and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” “Happy Trails” will feature all new music. T Bone Burnett Joins Broadway Musical About Roy Rogers 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The only weakness of his account is that it isn’t easy to weave together two biographical threads when one figure is so obviously greater than the other. ‘Architecture’s Odd Couple’: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Schreiber said he does not like doing biographical films because of the comparisons that are made and the danger is even bigger playing a prize fighter, especially if he is still alive. Actor Liev Schreiber takes 800 punches to make boxer drama credible 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Much of what is revealed in the book is already known to scholars and is part of the biographical record. Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z Mark Bradford, based in Los Angeles, skips biographical reference altogether in a wall-filling text piece. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z His work, which he aptly calls “ethnopoetic,” is built on that biographical data, but expands outward from it. Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The roses are invited to share a few quirky biographical highlights. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z More than mere biographical detail, this remote island and its troubled, often violent history is one of his obsessions. Richard Flanagan’s Way With Intimacy 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Even so, her original title, “Lesser Lives,” sounds like a biographical nod to “history from below,” in which earlier eras are reinterpreted from a populist or feminist perspective. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z As the documentary is biographical exploring controversial episodes in the mayor's life was considered appropriate. Boris Johnson's father: BBC interview was 'disgusting' journalism 2013-03-25T11:21:29Z It’s a biographical project that consumed eight years of Ullrich’s life and “took a definite psychological toll,” he writes in his introduction to the second volume. In the Second Volume of ‘Hitler,’ How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Still, what makes this biographical documentary short, with its inviting, studio-visit feel, such a pleasure isn’t the artist’s inspiring story so much as her delightful company. 15 Documentaries That Get Inside an Artist’s Head 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It is fitting that Amandla Stenberg will play Starr in the film adaptation; many of the biographical details of her life mirror that of the character she plays. What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The museum has published only a stripped-down online version of its skull database, sharing no names or biographical details, even though the list seen by The Times contains this information about hundreds of remains. A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Wright has said she doesn't think she is playing herself, even though she and her screen character share a name and many biographical details, including roles in "The Princess Bride" and "Forrest Gump." Ari Folman animates Robin Wright in 'The Congress' 2013-05-21T12:05:12Z Strange as it seems, Griswold was also Poe's literary executor, and he expanded the obituary into a biographical essay that accompanied Poe's collected works. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Bereaved but resilient, the sound of the monumental Argentine folk singer heard in Rodrigo H. Vila’s biographical documentary “Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America” conveys eons of suffering and survival. Movie Review: ‘Mercedes Sosa,’ About a Voice for the Oppressed 2014-01-24T00:23:48Z As a child, she loved to draw and read, so much so, she said in a biographical sketch on her website, that she developed the ability to read while walking home from school. Amy Schwartz, Who Captured Life as Viewed by a Child, Dies at 68 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Does Mr. James — who makes his directing debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday — overdramatize a biographical detail here or there? This Year, Sundance Will Savor Its Homegrown Projects 2011-01-18T23:19:16Z Is it fair to say that all biographical films have to rely on a certain amount of reconstruction, and creating scenes where there’s no record of what was said or what occurred? ArtsBeat: Camelot Revisited: The Creators of 'The Kennedys' Speak Out 2011-03-24T14:07:03Z Many migrants who did not have family in America claimed connections, and they committed detailed biographical information to memory in order to pass stringent interrogations. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “I’m sure when I emerged from my mother’s womb, the doctor slapped me, I hit a high C and slapped him back,” she wrote in a biographical sketch on her website. Patrice Munsel, Soprano Who as a Teenager Won a Met Contract, Dies at 91 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The new trailer for Barry, a biographical film about Obama’s days as a student at Columbia University in the early 1980s, might help stoke it. Watch The Trailer For 'Barry,' Netflix's Barack Obama Biopic 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The show reflects an intriguing new emphasis, among curators and scholars, on a more biographical and identity-driven reading of Warhol: more person, less persona. For Andy Warhol, Faith and Sexuality Intertwined 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Some detractors also asserted that Mr. Craft, who was not a trained historian, had let factual errors creep into his biographical writings about the composer. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Meryl Streep stars as a delusional New York heiress in this biographical comedy drama. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z There’s a touch of the poet in this week’s video, which features Joely Richardson in a scene from the revival of “The Belle of Amherst,” William Luce’s biographical play about Emily Dickinson. In Performance: Joely Richardson of 'The Belle of Amherst' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z If it were a book, it could sit on the shelf alongside “The Executioner’s Song” by Norman Mailer and the great biographical works of Robert Caro. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z We also needed to create a new website for the project, accessible on all platforms, providing information on each landmark and how to access it – as well as biographical information on the person describing it. Audio description: let's hear it for arts, heritage and culture for all 2013-05-24T16:31:03Z The decision will presumably cause some relief in Hollywood, which routinely recreates famous scenes for biographical films. Deep Throat production company fails in Lovelace copyright claim 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z His run-ins with the authorities are not just a biographical footnote. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Hoffman, a best actor Oscar winner for his role in the 2005 biographical film "Capote," won accolades for his versatility on the stage and screen. Family, actors mourn Philip Seymour Hoffman at private funeral 2014-02-08T00:27:11Z Mr. DiCillo’s script is a shallow hodgepodge of biographical tidbits about the Doors, larded with clichéd images of the 1960s that have been recycled hundreds of times. | 'When You?re Strange': Documentary Recalls the Fire of Jim Morrison 2010-04-09T00:08:00Z The aim seems to be to investigate various women’s impact on Woolf’s life from broad quarters, but the effect is to disrupt the chronological logic of biographical coherence. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Taken together, these moments substantiate the movie's charm while also exhibiting why "Becoming" falls short of being the revealing biographical experience some are surely expecting. "Becoming" is a feel-good portrait of Michelle Obama that's a better concert film than biography 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z As such it is deeply indebted to a modern tradition of biographical path-following that goes back to Richard Holmes's luminous Footsteps. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z The biographical musical, which opened on Wednesday, is a mishmash — think Disney meets “House of Cards” meets History Channel. Nero Rock Opera Is a Burning Issue in Rome 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z This sort of contradiction—the affinity toward both life and death—runs through much of Tsushima’s work, and it tends to invite a biographical reading of her books. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The biographical documentary, made in 2014 and originally titled “Let’s Change the World,” according to The Final Call, the Nation of Islam’s newspaper, tells the story of Mr. Farrakhan’s foray into playing violin. Netflix Won’t Offer Louis Farrakhan Documentary 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z His biographical sketches of the life and times of the authors he addresses are excellent, concretely informative while also marbled with interesting tidbits. The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Its quest to illuminate is foiled, though, by that bane of biographical performance: tedious exposition of a life we know too well. Finding Some Treasures at FringeNYC 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z His father, Alfred, is described in several biographical listings as a real estate agent, though in a 1983 interview with The Washington Post Mr. Storch said he was a cabdriver. Larry Storch, Comic Actor Best Known for ‘F Troop,’ Dies at 99 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z This isn’t a drably standard biographical documentary: instead, it engages imaginatively with Baldwin’s political ideas and convictions, emerging as a rousing work of activism in its own right. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Instead the story marches through the standard beats of American success stories with all the music of a Butterick dressmaker's pattern with more than a few biographical details skimmed over or left out. Ewan McGregor dazzles in "Halston," which neglects to understand the legend behind the fashions 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Can you discuss your approach and how you wanted to present this biographical portrait? “Bunker 77″: The new documentary traces the steep arc of a enigmatic ’70s surf punk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Whether or not the factual liberties taken by “The Kennedys” are typical of biographical films, the mini-series presented a particular challenge for History, given the show’s venerated subjects and the channel’s reputation for fact-based entertainment. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z But the director, Jacquelyn Mills, might equally have called this experimental documentary — part nature film, part biographical portrait — a collaboration with the setting. ‘Geographies of Solitude’ Review: Exploring a Wild Island 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Kazin traces the party’s evolution, drawing on presidential records and biographical sketches of prominent members from Jesse Jackson to William Jennings Bryan. 14 New Books Coming in March 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Early in his career, he worked for a period as a cartoonist and sold his work to publications including the magazine Lilliput, according to a biographical sketch on the Penguin Web site. Eric Hill, writer and illustrator of ‘Where’s Spot?’ and other children’s classics, dies Parsing this one is no fun, but a greater justice would be served if Bryan Cranston, the star of “All the Way,” wins for his terrific portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in Schenkkan’s biographical drama. The Tony Awards go down to the wire Later I speculated, with a kind of hopeless retreat into biographical literalism, whether fatherhood has not been kind to Marcus. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z Edwards was known for being an oral historian of the music genre and would tell biographical stories between songs at his shows, Frank said. Bluesman David 'Honey Boy' Edwards dead at 96 2011-08-30T00:32:17Z Many shows were biographical, about luminaries like Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson and Pocahontas. Charles Hull, Who Brought Theater to Young Audiences, Dies at 92 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z She often played down biographical details to tell the subject’s stories in an almost impressionistic manner. Gail Levin, Documentary Filmmaker for ‘American Masters,’ Dies at 67 2013-08-08T14:37:31Z The pages often contain biographical essays about collectors and handwritten annotations of buyers’ names and prices paid. Antiques: Vintage Auction Catalogs With Personal Provenance 2014-01-30T22:37:18Z Mr. Johns himself is loath to offer biographical interpretations of his work — or any interpretations, for that matter. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z We would then lose one of the best examples of what the French call musées biographiques, or biographical museums, which were once the homes or workplaces of artists, architects or writers. Dropping by Castiglioni's Studio 2011-04-10T15:30:17Z Reading both novels now, it’s hard not to notice the way botanical imagery and nature metaphors intrude on the prose, like biographical details from the future. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z They had steered me away from the common-sensical idea that historical context and biographical information might be useful tools. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z But there’s another family that the Roys resemble nearly as much, not in biographical detail but in style and tone: the Bluths of “Arrested Development,” whose fifth season just arrived on Netflix. Review: In HBO’s ‘Succession,’ the Family That Preys Together 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z That feeling of repetitive time filling is a problem that pervades “L’Anatomie,” which invokes various paintings and biographical moments in Bacon’s life without undue emphasis over its nine movements. Dance Review: Echoing the Tones of Francis Bacon 2011-07-11T22:23:00Z As an actress, August is best known for playing the mother of Swedish movie great Ingmar Bergman in his biographical movie "Best Intentions." Pernilla August wins Nordic film prize 2011-10-17T11:12:11Z A biographical note in the book even calls Fox “one of the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism.” Review | The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Although brief biographical entries bracket each new section of the novel, we learn little about how Hearn made his way to Cincinnati to work at the local newspaper. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Weinstein claimed that the movie was a fictional comedy and, even if it was about the duo, it was a biographical work about public figures, protected by the First Amendment governing free speech. Studio loses key ruling in battle with soul icon 2010-05-18T01:17:00Z “People are always more interested in the biographical stuff,” he said, adding with a laugh, “but I’m constantly writing about my life!” Édouard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z But while Mat Smart’s historical drama is an earnest attempt to illuminate an extraordinary — and sometimes contentious — friendship, the play struggles to move beyond a few biographical markers that it emphasizes, again and again. Two heroes of 19th-century America seek justice. They get none in ‘The Agitators.’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Bellows’ marital problems and sexual potency may seem as irrelevant to his writing as Wharton’s looks are to hers, but only if all biographical facts are ruled equally superfluous. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z But Mr. Arvelo, 48, eschewed that reading of Bolívar’s legacy as well as the hagiographic approach typical of epic biographical films about leading historical figures. Inspired by Simón Bolívar and Gustavo Dudamel 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It was too biographical; not enough plot progression – for me, though, maybe other people would like that style? My feminine, compulsive “sorry”: I apologize for everything from having an opinion to taking up space 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Since their union, he's become minor tabloid fodder, but the bigger concern for Legend is that his lyrics may be interpreted now as more biographical than universal. For John Legend, love and social protest make for an 'interesting mix' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The biographical element was cursory, leaving the songs to suggest the story of Hart’s unhappy, alcoholic life. Music Review: The Kisses, the Bites, the Humor of Rodgers and Hart 2010-09-19T21:58:00Z These biographical facts help illuminate some of the sources of his idiosyncratic songs, homespun and soulful, simple and often profound. Review: Parsons Dance Is an Enjoyable Ride, as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Conventional wisdom has held for months that "The King's Speech" and "The Social Network," a pair of handsome and talky comedy-drama blends with biographical and historical roots, were the best-picture front-runners, and so it appears. Winners and losers of today's Oscar noms 2011-01-25T17:20:00Z That was just behind documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” and “Loving,” a biographical film about an interracial couple who prompted a landmark anti-discrimination ruling by the U.S. TV viewers seek out '13th' and other stories about race amid protests 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Just this year, he inspired a biographical movie, “Get On Up,” with Chadwick Boseman as Brown, and there have been a steady stream of biographies, including two memoirs that he wrote with co-authors. ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The biographical note made no mention of Mystery Story and even claimed, "This is his first novel." The allure of the first novel 2013-01-12T08:30:01Z It is not mentioned in her book and seems to be mostly lost from their biographical narrative. Jill Biden is finally ready to be first lady. Can she help her husband beat Trump? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z For years the biographical notes in his books included a sentence that began, “After a succession of stupid jobs ...” Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z That’s why I wanted to end the biographical part of the show with a painting by Delaney, with a kind of brightness: here’s Baldwin’s father, his other father, a gay father. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z During his biographical "Wacko From Waco," about shooting a man in the face in 2007, Shaver sang the chorus with his hat on sideways. Billy Joe Shaver shines during 75th birthday party at the Satellite 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z But O’Brien’s real subject is not the Bosnian civil war, which she alludes to only periodically, or Radovan Karadzic, whose biographical details she only sketches. Review: Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Little Red Chairs’ confronts Radovan Karadzic 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Numerous interviews with Nauman's associates flesh out important biographical details and, on occasion, correct the record. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive 's nakedly autobiographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too. Annie Hall: No 1 2010-10-18T10:53:00Z Like many biographical documentaries, it resembles a lengthy highlight reel of crucial events from its subject’s life, without much in the way of style or perspective. Review: ‘Mama Africa’ Remembers the Life of Miriam Makeba 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The biographical Michael Jackson musical “MJ” takes this to an extreme, ignoring the charges that Jackson molested children, separating the artist from the allegations. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Over the years, Paul McCartney has been the subject of numerous biographical studies, while remaining frustratingly elusive in terms of sharing the nature of his interior life. "The McCartney Legacy": An in-depth study of Paul's angsty transition from Beatle to solo superstar 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z JACKSON, Miss. — Tate Taylor, the Mississippi native who directed "The Help," said Monday that he'll make a biographical feature film about James Brown in the state, starting this fall. James Brown biopic to be filmed in Mississippi 2013-08-26T17:46:54Z Much of the biographical information here is familiar, but there is intriguing speculation. | 'Seven Songs for Malcom X' and 'The Last Angel of History': ?Seven Songs for Malcolm X,? ?The Last Angel of History? ? Review 2011-10-09T22:32:47Z It has always been obvious that my poems were autobiographical.' Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce 2013-01-26T07:29:01Z Brilliant and associative, these biographical essays have the beauty and economy of poems but the souls of portraits. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z For an actor, there’s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in an biographical war movie. Here Is Matthew McConaughey as Your Civil War Boyfriend 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z More recent biographical comics have run the gamut from Marvel’s take on Mother Teresa and , in the 1980s, to the story of Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco from First Amendment Publishing, in the 1990s. Comic Book Heroes Drawn From Real Life 2010-07-28T23:00:00Z Onstage, though, “The Collaboration” feels emptily formulaic — less like an insider’s view of its famous subjects’ lives than a kind of biographical tourism that gets into serious gawking in its second half. ‘The Collaboration’ Review: A Basquiat-Warhol Bromance in Bloom 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z But one day I was reading the biographical note in one of Joan Didion's books – I was really into her – and I saw she'd grown up in Sacramento. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z For some reason she turned her attention to the subjects of fellow best picture nominee "King Richard," a biographical film about Richard Williams, the famed father and tennis coach of the Williams sisters. Jane Campion’s "petty" acceptance speech highlights the issues with insidious white feminism 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The St. Thomas and Town Hall programs delve a bit, musically speaking, into biographical elements of Schumann's fascinating and somewhat tragic life. 200 candles and lots of music for Robert Schumann 2010-10-14T20:50:00Z Ms. Abramovic makes her first appearance in the disjointed biographical drama that follows portraying her own mother, who looms large as a baleful influence in her life. Theater Review: ‘Life and Death of Marina Abramovic’ at Park Ave. Armory 2013-12-15T23:14:05Z Asked for biographical information, they offered up tidbits on one another like “Cameron was born in a tree,” from Mr. Gleeson, and “Jack was a profoundly lonely child,” from Mr. Macaulay. King Joffrey Is Coming. But Only to Act in a Play. 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The experience, Mr. Gardner wrote in a biographical sketch accompanying the collection of his papers at Harvard, “was the pivot on which my mind and interests swung, radically and decisively.” Robert Gardner, renowned documentary filmmaker of ‘Dead Birds,’ dies at 88 This late-in-life biographical documentary from the director Susanne Rostock, made with the participation and blessing of the man himself, veers occasionally into hagiography and skims over the messier aspects of his long and complicated life. Watch These Great Harry Belafonte Screen Performances 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z At first, the younger Shaw balked at the notion of a biographical play about his father. Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z These biographical details matter for a couple of reasons. Books of The Times: ‘Far From the Tree,’ by Andrew Solomon 2012-11-13T13:00:24Z The New Orleans Cookbook,” by Lena Richard, offered no biographical information about the author — not even her picture. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z A brief biographical note tells the reader that he was "born in 1938, and grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales". A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z It’s a meaningful message, and one whose comprehensiveness nicely complements the play’s wealth of specific biographical details. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z So it made both musical and biographical sense to end with Debussy’s “La Mer.” A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z These usually take the form of Wikipedia-style biographical summaries delivered to the audience, or melodramatic declarations that might in other contexts be played for camp. Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s enriched by the dazzling charisma of her art and limited by the scarcity of biographical material. ‘Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint’ Review: What Did She See, and When? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer isn't an easy biographical subject: the complexity, the contradictions, and the cultural breadth provoke interest in the man, while for the biographer they constitute massive practical problems. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z Nonetheless, in his core narrative, Skal does seem to use Stoker’s vampire classic to determine what biographical and historical material he emphasizes and how it is interpreted. ‘Something in the Blood’ offers plenty of speculation about ‘Dracula’ author 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z A gifted journalist who has written frequently for the New Yorker, Cep has imposed order here by providing biographical portraits of three figures: Maxwell, Radney and Lee. Review | Harper Lee tried to turn a murder trial into a true crime masterpiece. What happened to the book? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z To me, this new biographical information, together with Plath's drafts and journal entries, reveals how she channeled this painful experience into her poetry. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Audiences have two more weeks to acknowledge the equality and full humanity of women as this biographical play centered on Gloria Steinem draws to a close Off Broadway. 12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z A biographical film almost inevitably tilts in sympathy with its subject; that’s why so many people object to any effort to cinematize Hitler’s life story or Stalin’s. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z No pushover, this Bailey guy, and his near decade of toil has resulted in a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph that, at more than 800 pages, also manages to be conversationally readable. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z They also persisted with an irritating contemporary trend: reducing art to biographical artefact. London Sinfonietta/Jones – review 2012-11-25T12:17:23Z And when you’re dealing with icons, it may not matter all that much what the biographical context of the person making that image was. When Life Gets in the Way of Art 2010-09-26T03:00:00Z The document contains a list of basic biographical questions, such as “How many children do you have?” and “Where do you live?” A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z What the New Critics called “the biographical fallacy” is always irresistible, but it’s especially tempting when dealing with a writer who aggressively encouraged it. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Dunin said she stayed in touch with Mr. Brown after their conversation, and later corresponded with him to confirm biographical information while expanding his Wikipedia page. Does ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Writer Have a Secret? 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The American Weill has biographical resonance for Mr. Kahane as well. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z But there are no hard and fast rules for how much time must elapse before a biographical film can be made about a person or an event. ?The Kennedys?: After the Debate, the Debut 2011-03-28T18:18:19Z However, the connective tissue is soggy biographical TV movie fare, which is what hobbles it in the long run. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The programs typically included a biographical section that filled the audience in on who Joanne Rogers’s husband was. She’s Mrs. Rogers. But Joanne Rogers Has ‘Always Been Her Own Person.’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Written by Adrian Fisher and Stuart Barham – who also star in this five-hander – it uses their words, letters and music and gives biographical snapshots in revue sketches. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-22T23:06:40Z The episode forms the spine of “Leading Men” and provides Castellani, in his alternative history, with a ready-made, if entirely made-up, biographical point of origin for the scene of Sebastian Venable’s murder. A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As the flames approached, Cher was in New York, taking another look at “The Cher Show,” a big, biographical Broadway musical opening Dec. 3. They always said Cher (and cockroaches) could survive the end of the world. Lately, she’s not so sure about that. 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z If “American Rose” does not excel at biographical explanation, it does have a penchant for ornate writing. Books of The Times: A Life Built on Illusion: More Tease Than Strip 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z In a nod to SIFF, which announced this week that a biographical movie about Jimi Hendrix will kick off this year’s film festival on May 15, we list our top 12 musical biopics. 12 best musical biopics | The List 2014-04-24T17:58:00Z In a rambling biographical catalog essay she distills her past decade of work down to just two images. Art Review: ?Zoe Strauss: Ten Years? at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Review 2012-01-12T23:57:45Z A biographical video near the end of the show includes a scene in which he waters, with a hose, the “WET GRASS” rug he made with Ikea. Can Virgil Abloh Fit in a Museum? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z His defining biographical moment came in 1590 when, after pretending to go hunting, he caught his wife, Maria, and her lover, the duke of Andria, in flagrante and murdered them in their bed. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z But in a biographical vehicle like “Bella Bella,” which opened on Tuesday at New York City Center Stage I, it unfortunately means someone else is not getting served. Review: Abzug and Fierstein, on the Same Ticket in ‘Bella Bella’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “It was a theater! I couldn’t believe it,” she wrote in a biographical pamphlet. Marta Becket, dancer in the desert, dies at 92 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Fox Searchlight’s “Tolkien,” a biographical drama about “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” author J. R. R. Tolkien, debuted in ninth place with $2 million from 1,495 locations. Box Office: 'Avengers: Endgame' stays no. 1, 'Detective Pikachu'... 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z “Christopher Robin,” unlike last year’s poignant and profound “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” is not a biographical film about Milne and his son, after whom the character was named. The Moral Clarity of “Christopher Robin” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Olsen persuaded the Feminist Press to publish a new edition, to which she contributed “a biographical interpretation” that is longer than Davis’s original text. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z It's still a polyglot of well-researched biographical details, symbolist reenactments and unbridled kinetic imagination. 'Stoneface' grows in scope, gains punch at Pasadena Playhouse 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z In effect, the novels are a prelude, the stories an aftermath, each gesturing urgently at the scale of the biographical explosion that must lie in between. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z None of these skills, except perhaps a flair for direct, comprehensible explanations, apply to the movie, a standard biographical primer from Oren Rudavsky. ‘Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People’ Review: A Flair for Journalism, Subdued 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Jacaranda shares some of her biographical markers but not all of them, giving her room to experiment. 'Sex and Rage' have always been the territory of the It Girl 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z One of the biggest surprises among the five nominees was Eastwood, 84, for his biographical drama about U.S. Clint Eastwood, Richard Linklater nominated for Directors Guild Award 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Worse, the choreography, by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, doesn’t illuminate its biographical subject. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z For Hill, who is Black, queer and from the ’hood — intersecting outsider identities — inviting people onto coasters might just convey something about his life experience that a biographical litany cannot. EJ Hill Wants to Take You on a Ride 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z In this way, “Judas” recalls another recent biographical drama about an undercover agent that punts on politics: Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” from 2018. ‘Judas’ Is the Latest Political Movie to Punt on Politics 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z It then turned into essays and compilations and very clearly, biographical things rather than writing fiction. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Would she really be as shocked as she is here that he’s bending the occasional biographical fact? Theater Review: ‘Checkers,’ With Anthony LaPaglia, at the Vineyard Theater 2012-11-09T03:00:08Z Within that show, Maria’s TV reality is something like her biographical reality: She’s a comedian and actress in Los Angeles who had a career breakthrough, then a breakdown. Review: ‘Lady Dynamite’ Finds Surreal Humor in Mental Illness 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Melissa McCarthy wowed critics this fall as the lead in the biographical drama “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Life of the Party’ and ‘Gilbert’ 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z All the biographical details are correct, even those that he had thought were deep secrets. The narrative seductiveness of Zoran Zivkovic 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It was during that time that he “hit upon an assembly of ingredients, which he named Russian salad dressing,” according to the biographical information, which does not name the ingredients. America was sweet on its spicy Russian dressing — until Thousand Island, that is 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Rather than tie up their famous subjects in neatly moralized biographical packages they dwell on complexities and ambiguities. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and ?J. Edgar?: Studies in Repression 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z Does Monk believe his biographical subject did the right thing in building the bomb? A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Sentences from the book are sometimes projected onto the walls, as are short biographical descriptions of the characters. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z It is one thing to suggest that Brown is “nearly as important . . . in American social history as, say, Harriet Tubman,” and another thing to demonstrate the hypothesis through biographical narrative. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Drawing on her Ph.D. thesis on writers and sobriety, she entwines her own story with fascinating, smartly chosen biographical sketches and quotations from famous alcoholic writers and their critics. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z On last week's Reading group post, Karina74 lamented that it's "next to impossible to read The Bell Jar without being flooded with biographical details about Sylvia Plath". Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z The newly published "In Ballast to the White Sea" is a scholarly edition, with biographical notes and annotations. Lost Malcolm Lowry book published for the first time 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z They have also continued to develop a biographical series about the late-night host Johnny Carson. David Milch Still Has Stories to Tell 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z His memoir with biographical chapters, “Resurrections: Writers, Heroes — and a Spy,” will appear next year. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The poem gains a poignant authenticity from the biographical context, and no doubt this helps account for its popularity. Poem of the week: Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne 2012-11-26T10:26:31Z Was it difficult to write a biographical investigation of a figure who was not given to much self-revelation, in public or in private? Designer for the age of austerity 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z By putting himself imaginatively inside the consciousness of a historical individual the novelist can contribute to the understanding of biographical "facts". David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z Being one of five girls from the city’s working-class suburbs isn’t just a biographical fact about Jill Biden, it’s become a political personality trait. It’s always sunny for Philadelphia sports fan Jill Biden these days 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z He separated the library’s holdings into drama, oratory, lyric poetry, legislation and so forth; he also attached biographical descriptions and other metadata to them. Seeking Genuine Discovery on Music Streaming Services 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The internationally known, youth-oriented Dutch drama troupe Theatergroep Max devised this biographical show, focusing on the first chapter of four teen Liverpool lads coming together to make wonderful music. Plays about the Beatles, religion and politics hit Seattle theaters 2012-04-05T19:30:09Z The strange biographical essay documentary “Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D” has the somewhat intriguing, somewhat preposterous idea of trying to illustrate Leonardo da Vinci’s way of viewing the world. Peter Capaldi Narrates ‘Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But much of Segers’s work was subsequently lost and biographical information is scant. A Dutch Master’s Surreal Visions 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z His poses and attitudes seem borrowed, arising less from any social or psychological condition or biographical facts than from a desire to be as cool as the guys in the movies. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z In “Dostoevsky in Love,” published earlier this year, Alex Christofi combined genres, plucking lines from Dostoyevsky’s fiction and training them across a trellis of biographical fact. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Speaking in a hushed voice, Ms. Nitoslawska provides a skeletal biographical portrait while wandering around her subject’s handsomely lived-in country house, and peeking into rooms and old diaries that slowly bring a life into focus. Movie Review: ‘Breaking the Frame,’ a Documentary About Carolee Schneemann 2014-01-30T23:59:53Z He provides useful historical and biographical context, makes insightful comparisons and speculates keenly on feelings and psychology. Review | One rivalry changed the landscape in English art 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Eddie Redmayne has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for male actor in a leading role for his transformative performance as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in the biographical drama "The Theory of Everything." SAG Awards 2015: Eddie Redmayne wins lead actor honor for 'Theory' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z This story includes biographical information compiled by the late AP Entertainment Writer Bob Thomas. Maureen O'Hara, Star of Many Film Classics, Dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z “I am not interested in the biographical march through the paintings,” she said. In ‘Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life,’ Nature Melds With the Artist Herself 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Instead they shift their sentiments onto biographical subjects and labor to gather every last picayune fact about a life, as if in an act of penance. Calvin Tomkins Continues to Chronicle Artists 2011-10-04T20:34:15Z "The First Lady" is an unauthorized biographical drama, clearly. "The First Lady" tells the story of three revolutionary presidents' wives in an inconsequential way 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But despite the abundance of biographical material, the new piece, which was first presented at N.Y.U. Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z It was decided early on, with the Spice Girls' agreement, that it would not be a tribute or biographical show. Spice Girls launch West End musical 2012-06-26T16:49:53Z “I think you’re completely revealed, but it’s you threaded through the coordinates of this fiction. There’s no biographical detail to get at, but I think you’re ultimately revealed.” Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z One hesitates to graft biographical material on to a fictional work, especially considering that this book was written after the second world war. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov – review 2013-06-18T15:57:28Z Family members are not always the most objective sources for biographical information, but if nothing else, those in “Contrarian” provide a primer for the image conscious. Television Review: John M. Templeton, Remembered by Relatives, on Bloomberg TV 2013-12-25T18:07:21Z If they turn out to be proven true, readers will have to reckon on their own with the disjunction of biographical fact with biographical supposition. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Show creators weren’t granted the rights to his biographical narrative. Tupac Shakur musical 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' to close 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z He has written history plays, mystery plays, biographical plays, political plays, science fiction plays and plays composed of gleefully bad grammar. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z "Genius: Aretha" is the third installment of the biographical anthology series from executive producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, and the first to feature a woman and a person of color as its focus. "Aretha" crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo's own genius 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Spending time being a famous person, I’m not generating much biographical material. Alison Bechdel on Fun Home, Her New Book and That Famous Test 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z France A. Dumas fils La Dame aux Camelias easyreader David Coward It's a short and easy read - in part biographical and autobiographical. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z He mentions for example a list of “300 Women Who Changed the World” that includes Jacobs, so we will be suitably impressed with his biographical subject. Review: It’s Jane Jacobs’s World We Live In 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This biographical erasure is one of the biggest challenges facing museums that seek to exhibit work by enslaved artists. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The Saga of Ingrid Bergman,” a look at the actress’s life and career commissioned by Sweden’s Strandverket Art Museum, runs through today, with photographs, screen clips, biographical information and movie trivia. Estonian musician finds her voice digging in the library stacks 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Through a series of richly drawn biographical portraits, she introduces us to the men and women who have been working for more than a century to rescue endangered species from extinction. The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Like so many one-person shows that blend songs and reminiscences into a biographical portrait, the play is an uncomfortable forced marriage of drama and music. New Music: Common Has a New Album and Audra MacDonald as ‘Lady Day’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Complicating matters is the decision to confine such an unconventional figure as Cher in the straitjacket of the biographical jukebox musical — particularly the tripartite diva subgenus most recently botched by “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.” Review: In ‘The Cher Show,’ I Got You, Babe. And You. And You. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z "The Murdochs" stands on its own merits owing to its double-fisted servings of media insight on one hand and juicy biographical examination on the other. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z In withholding biographical information about the characters, the movie supplies just enough material to prompt you to fill in the blanks. Review: ‘From Afar,’ a Tale of Desire and Repression in Venezuela 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The second season begins with a narrator explaining that there's a point at which the concrete, biographical details of Dickinson's life aren't as fully chronicled as they were in the timeframe that's been previously depicted. "Dickinson" creator on Emily and fame: "The spotlight was a dangerous place for her to be" 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z True to form, Mr. Harnoncourt studied not only the paper trail but also the big biographical and cultural picture. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z Hughes' famed battle with the code was portrayed in "The Aviator," Martin Scorsese's 2004 biographical film that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes. Screen siren Jane Russell dies at 89 2011-03-01T04:30:00Z This aching desire for a son and heir is a main theme both in Friedman’s novel and, to varying degrees, in modern biographical accounts of Beethoven’s life. Book review: ‘Conversations with Beethoven,’ by Sanford Friedman 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It is not, like many of these shows, biographical; it does not apply an invented story to an existing song catalog; it does not pour sanctimony and Brylcreem over the top. Can Critics Learn to Love the Jukebox Musical? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z There is a school of posthumous diagnosis of the great, more biographical than medical in expertise. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z She said that while Austen could have ingested arsenic through medication, other elements of the British Library’s biographical analysis seemed less persuasive. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In his recent “Analogy Trilogy,” Bill T. Jones used dance as a mode of biographical storytelling, each work in the series tracing the contours of a life. Your Week in Culture: Katy Perry, Agnès Varda, the Guggenheim’s Chinese Art (Minus the Animals) 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z It may be an uncharitable creation, more absurd than tragic, but this isn’t a biographical study of the doomed poet and his times or anything that literary or high-minded. Review: ‘Amour Fou,’ About the Woman in a Poet’s Suicide Pact 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Stephen is, after his fashion, pushing back against the biographical fallacy. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Yet the biographical details that are woven into this short and spirited discussion suggest an uneasy relationship with the form. War of words 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Modernity, you notice, and not modernism with its slippery definition and advanced aesthetics; this is a show with a biographical thrust. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z I wanted to know more, so I looked at the biographical summary at the back. Gossip, love and tragedy: what every artist's catalogue needs 2010-08-09T13:23:00Z The majority are biographical, including more than 100 pages from a background investigation conducted when he became a speech writer for President Richard Nixon in 1969. William Safire's FBI file details grades, wiretaps 2010-04-13T19:00:00Z He favors the short paragraph and the brief biographical sketch. ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Despite the labels’ repeated references to Mr. Gupta’s biographical connections to the pieces, the palpable lack of personal connection, like the setting itself, creates an exploitative aura. Subodh Gupta: ‘Seven Billion Light Years’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Their subject is extremely familiar — the love of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera — but the treatment is less biographical and more mythic. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z She rarely raised her voice on Wednesday as she exuded a cautious warmth and offered revealing biographical tidbits about Ms. Simone’s stormy life. Review: Meshell Ndegeocello Hails Nina Simone 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Szwed’s book on Holiday is a series of essays that does not purport to be a biographical chronicle or even a coherent narrative. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Myerson had been trying to write a biographical sketch of Mary Yelloly, an obscure young woman from a well-to-do Regency family who left behind a book of drawings of her life in Suffolk. Julie Myerson: a life in writing 2013-03-22T17:17:00Z There is much illuminating biographical material on both Brian Epstein and George Martin and keen insight into why they became essential to the Beatles’ success. Books of The Times: ‘Tune In,’ Part 1 of a Beatles Biography, by Mark Lewisohn 2013-12-11T21:46:20Z But I am also born into a body, a time, a class and a place, and those biographical facts carry sociopolitical meaning that precedes me. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Ellett did an artful series of biographical tiles called "Day in the Life," including one featuring her favorite Sharpie. Going outside the lines, breaking 'rules' with Sharpies 2010-10-26T16:21:00Z It is the biographical parade, in all its mysterious, miraculous, macabre, brilliantly colored splendor that matters. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z But friends and family would say this biographical summary is incomplete without three more words: peanut-butter freak. The peanut butter that made William F. Buckley Jr. swoon 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Freud himself went on to become a biographical writer of exceptional note. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z But he also admits to a strange paternal instinct toward his subject: “I also found myself wanting to defend her, hoping to give her a new hearing in the court of biographical opinion.” ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In a way, the interest inspired is sociological and biographical, as is so much academic attention focused on female writers. Exhibition Review: ?Shakespeare?s Sisters? at the Folger Shakespeare Library 2012-02-23T23:43:59Z But the timing of the documentary’s more traditional biographical gestures feels more appropriate to a retrospective consideration, one that has the current pandemic in the rearview mirror. ‘Fauci’ Review: The First Pandemic That Shaped the Good Doc 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The director, Patrick McGrady, gracefully alternates interviews and biographical passages with stirring lyrical musical sequences. Movie Review: Stephen Fry Narrates the Documentary ‘Wagner & Me’ 2012-12-07T01:03:22Z In April, the CBS news program "60 Minutes" challenged the credibility of biographical details in "Three Cups of Tea" and said Mortenson's institute was largely used to promote the 2006 book. Controversial "Three Cups" author has heart surgery 2011-06-10T06:48:53Z In the case of Borges, Wallace argued, “the stories so completely transcend their motive cause that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant.” Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Orwell’s speeches, either in rehearsal with Carlotta or made directly to the audience, survey his writings, offer biographical anecdotes and announce his hope that socialism will triumph in the postwar world. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Visitors seem always to have spent more time reading the moralising biographical inscriptions than looking at the works, and inscriptions expanded in length exponentially to cater for the demand. Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy - review 2011-01-15T00:05:50Z Now he seeks insights into Pound through biographical investigations of those who visited him over the years at St. Elizabeths and through other extramural research. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The artist has “a very close family connection to the world depicted in his recent work,” a mysterious biographical note reports. In the galleries: Tension and beauty collide in Michael Sastre’s paintings 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The biographical roots of Calderón’s performance aesthetic invite speculation. 'Kiss' at the Odyssey: A rising Chilean playwright explores what gets lost in translation 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “Major Labels” is full of good biographical details. ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But if I request anything beyond basic biographical information, she becomes infuriatingly tight-lipped. Hello Barbie: fashion-obsessed talking doll thinks I'm amazing – or so she said 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z But online biographical information on Ms. Dougan is scant, unlike the pages and pages devoted to Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. What Happened to Vikki Dougan? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In the margins of the dialogue she intersperses tidbits about herself, the biographical details and movements that make up a heroine’s journey. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But that biographical detail doesn’t reduce him to a mere statistic. Another young black man dies, but it’s not ‘the same old story’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In essence, the film plays as a parable of the difficulty of rehabilitation and biographical storytelling when your subject is so unreliable. Murder, mystery and a hit record: the unbelievable story of Ike White 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z So the consensus remains that Stoppard is essentially a biographical dramatist, whose plays begin in the library, and that The Real Thing is a rare glimpse of the real him. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z "It's almost a little bit biographical. This is me going back and doing some of the things that people may not know so well, but also remixing them." "If they shout at me, I'll shout back": Eddie Izzard talks comedy, transphobia and taking a stand 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z There is no biographical narration connecting the show’s loosely connected stream of vignettes that follow Tipton’s musical career from the late 1930s to 1970. Nellie McKay Plays the Drag King Billy Tipton at 54 Below 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z He notes that the phrase “found among the papers . . .” — frequent in the subtitles of 17th-century books — implied the existence of some “hidden historical, political or biographical truth.” Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In addition to the advertisements, the site includes links to maps, letters, reviews, illustrations, and biographical material, along with essays on subjects like Victorian sanitation, education policy, poorhouses, and wooden legs. ArtsBeat: And Now a Word from Charles Dickens's Sponsor... 2012-04-05T19:27:48Z More recently, Pilbeam has argued that Tussauds presents an "intimately corporeal biographical history". What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z "With 'Marcus,' everyone asks if it's my coming-out experience, and I'm like, 'No, not at all.' I'm less interested in drawing biographical conclusions than in finding stories that we're already telling." The choir sings, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney takes up the tune 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The decor is just as biographical as the food, with African textiles taking up one wall above the French-brasserie-style dining room and a display of the chef’s on-point wardrobe. Where to eat at MGM National Harbor: We taste all the top restaurants 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z But her biographical sketches of the three Riot girls who went on trial — the beautiful, brilliant ideologue Nadya; the hippieish, sisterly dreamer Maria; the quiet but tough tomboy Katya — are vivid and empathic. ‘Words Will Break Cement’: they’ll land you in prison, too 2014-05-07T20:13:00Z His case histories are all biographical accounts of considerable intricacy. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z After the VR piece, viewers exit into a narrow hallway where a row of video screens in the wall play short biographical sketches that feature the real immigrants whose stories inspired “Carne y Arena.” Inside Alejandro Iñárritu's VR border drama at LACMA: What you will see and why you might cry 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Jason also meets the polyglot acting sensation that is Édgar Ramírez, who plays the infamous international terrorist 'The Jackal' in Olivier Assayas' epic biographical film Carlos. Film Weekly asks Mark Ruffalo if The Kids Are All Right 2010-10-27T18:56:00Z Hendrickson, the author of an acclaimed biographical portrait of Hemingway, also subscribes to the received cant that Wright heroically embodied a Whitmanesque or Emersonian ideal, all big skies, prairie homes and American braggadocio. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z And then throw in the voice of an omniscient narrator, who annotates the action in the manner of an on-the-spot news reporter, filling in biographical details of the lives of the artists. ‘Cineastas’ and ‘O Jardim’ at Under the Radar 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “The Electrical Life,” a poignant biographical portrait starring an irresistible Benedict Cumberbatch, helps bring the man into focus, even if it is all a bit fuzzy. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Queen Elizabeth II was still alive when the first season of this internationally popular biographical drama series debuted in 2016; and now the show is coming to an end, a year after her death. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z A short biographical note at the back doesn’t say enough about Ms. Berlin or her work. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z His subject was no longer alive, but Knappenberger was able to create a biographical mosaic from all kinds of video material, including the cable news programs or tech conferences that Swartz frequented. At AFI Docs, bold characters and controversial stories take the spotlight In breezy biographical chapters on 10 writers, including Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Pauline Kael, Dean explores their successes and failures and their relationship to feminism. New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z And then there are his biographical sketches, masterful in their brevity and insight and humor. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Feuillade does away with all this biographical detail, and with it goes any sense of psychology or rational motivation. DVD: When Fant?mas Held All of Paris in His Criminal Thrall 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z He began gently cajoling Bernstein to appear in a biographical film. In 'Seymour,' Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein as creative odd couple 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z A typical hourlong episode blends informal journalism and biographical details with musical interludes. With ‘Meet the Composer,’ Nadia Sirota Illuminates New Music 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “Lombardi,” a biographical drama by Eric Simonson that opened on Broadway Thursday night at the Circle in the Square theater, seems to depend heavily on a playbook that emphasizes the importance of team effort. | ?Lombardi?: On Further Review, the Coach Stands 2010-10-22T03:39:00Z Eventually, she discovers a few bare biographical details. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z If there is an upset, it will come from “MJ,” the biographical musical about Michael Jackson. A ‘Strange’ Wind Blowing: Tony Voters Like ‘Loop’ and ‘Lehman’ 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z This excellent piece of biographical criticism explains why and how. 2014′s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl’” 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z “Welcome Home” is mostly of biographical interest; it’s a stand-in until the inevitable biography of Berlin is written. The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “You don’t come to a graphic novel expecting something purely biographical,” Mr. Legg said. Part Ramones Biography, Part Dreamscape 2013-08-08T12:00:13Z “Best of Enemies” provides adequate biographical portraits of both men, although capturing the full range of their complexities, in particular as literary figures, lies beyond its modest, compact scope. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The author takes admirable risks in exposing desperate interior states, but straightforward biographical details are hard to come by. Jessa Crispin's 'Dead Ladies Project' braids travelogue, literary criticism and emotional honesty 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In a biographical sketch for the Pulitzer, Mr. McPherson wrote in the third-person dry: “Grateful to be able to pick the books he likes. Does not enjoy reviewing books he does not like.” William McPherson, Pulitzer-winning book critic who chronicled his decline into poverty, dies at 84 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Meshing both fact and fiction into one, the biographical film takes a look at Monroe's life and career, including her rise to stardom, troubled private affairs and tragic demise. Here are four actors who received both Razzie and Oscar nominations for the same performance 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z She’s not accused of abuse of power.” To even suggest so, to pounce on a biographical inconsistency like it’s a political vendetta, is simply idiotic. Wendy Davis is not Chris Christie 2014-01-21T20:26:00Z |
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