Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s been ten years since Linda Ronstadt, once the most highly paid woman in rock and roll, sang her last concert. In 2013, the world found out why: Parkinson’s disease had…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Robert De Niro is, famously, a man of few words. In the past two years, those words have included “punk,” “dog,” “pig,” “con,” “bullshit artist,” “mutt,” “idiot,” “national disaster,” “embarrassment,” “disgrace,”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fran Lebowitz is the patron saint of staying at home and doing nothing. She is famously averse to working, and famously resistant to technology; she has no cell phone or computer.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sir Anthony Hopkins had his breakthrough film role in 1968, as Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn’s power-hungry son in “The Lion in Winter.” Half a century and many roles later—among them…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My grandfather Arthur Motzkin, a first-generation American Jew, liked to tell stories about his unlikely cameos in world history. When George Washington was crossing the Delaware and took a wrong turn,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Even as the debt-ceiling crisis has been averted (for now), and even as we continue to emerge from the pandemic with new life, the smoke from Canadian wildfires that blanketed the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As a child growing up on a ranch in South Texas, Eva Longoria seldom encountered her heroes onscreen. At home, they were ever present: her father, Enrique, an Army veteran, made…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Because the Trump Administration funded the project from the D.O.D.’s budget and classified it as a matter of national security, the wall’s construction was exempt from the stipulations of the Clean…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 23rd, Venezuelan firefighters broke into the home of Pedro Salinas, a renowned engineering professor in the northwestern city of Mérida. Emaciated and dishevelled, the eighty-three-year-old retiree was found lying…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Long before David Carr, the late Times media critic, published his 2008 memoir, “The Night of the Gun,” I asked him why he never wrote a book about newspapers and the…
