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5 days ago · The New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas.
1 day ago · Critics cheered especially Hurt’s performance, with Janet Maslin stating in The New York Times that Hurt “has never been so daringly extroverted on screen before.”
2 days ago · Janet Maslin, reviewing for The New York Times, praised Fincher's direction and editing of the film. She wrote that Fight Club carried a message of "contemporary manhood", and that, if not watched closely, the film could be misconstrued as an endorsement of violence and nihilism. [100]
2 days ago · I had set an 8:30 AM call at the office location above Jumbo’s, figuring that I’d pull off the first shot sometime around 9:00- 9:30 AM. I had been assured by the woman artist in the adjacent studio across the hall that she would be available for a short scene sometime around mid-morning (10:30 AM), so I’d have another character beyond Morgan to enrich the first few moments of shooting.
1 day ago · In a glowing review for The New York Times, critic Janet Maslin praised the novel’s “irreverent humor and surprising depth.” She wrote, “This is a book that will make you laugh out loud and think long after you’ve finished it.”
1 day ago · Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented that this is "a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed." [73] Desson Thomson of The Washington Post considered Roger Rabbit to be "a definitive collaboration of pure talent.
1 day ago · [60] [61] The producers renamed the show Roger Ebert & the Movies and used rotating co-hosts including Martin Scorsese, [62] A.O. Scott, [63] and Janet Maslin. [64] Ebert wrote of his late colleague: "For the first five years that we knew one another, Gene Siskel and I hardly spoke.
