Hollywood executives reached a tentative agreement with hundreds of thousands of film and TV actors on Wednesday, finally bringing to an end a seismic period of dual strikes in the entertainment industry. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said members of the union’s negotiating committee approved the tentative deal…
“Epistemic” is a good five-dollar word. It means, roughly, “of or relating to knowledge or knowing.” Or “relating to knowledge or the study of knowledge.” (Think epistemology, fellow liberal-arts graduates.) The first time I remember encountering it in mainstream usage was during the early days of the Obama administration, when some of the internal intellectual…
MY NAME IS BARBRA, by Barbra Streisand Hello, enormous. Of course Barbra Streisand’s memoir, 10 years in the making if you don’t count the chapter she scribbled in longhand in the 1990s and then lost, was going to approach “Power Broker” proportions. For one thing, she is — fits of insecurity notwithstanding — a bona…
An exhibition of a millennium’s worth of Islamic art that was set to open this weekend at the Frick Pittsburgh has been postponed to next year, the New York Times reported Thursday. The museum said the show was rescheduled so as to avoid becoming “a source of unintended insensitivity or offense” in light of the Israel–Hamas war….
With a career spanning five decades, Barbara Walters—who died last year at the age of 93—was a trailblazer in broadcast journalism who broke barriers for women. Now, the cherished accoutrements of her distinguished life and career—from a Harry Winston diamond ring to a John Singer Sargent portrait—are up for auction at Bonhams. Making television history,…