One problem with being The New York Times—big, lumbering, important—is that you sometimes get in your own way. It happens even when you cover the movies. Every now and then, you find yourself looking at a picture that’s looking at you. And that can be awkward.
Just such a moment is pending, as The Times prepares to deal with She Said, Maria Schrader’s film about the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of Harvey Weinstein and sex abuse by two of its reporters, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
That was a proud enterprise for the paper, the kind of reporting it’s supposed to do. But past triumph won’t make it any easier for the Times‘ critics and cultural reporters to cover the film when Universal unveils it at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 13, at a world premiere that will find their two colleagues on-stage with the actresses who portray them,...
Just such a moment is pending, as The Times prepares to deal with She Said, Maria Schrader’s film about the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of Harvey Weinstein and sex abuse by two of its reporters, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
That was a proud enterprise for the paper, the kind of reporting it’s supposed to do. But past triumph won’t make it any easier for the Times‘ critics and cultural reporters to cover the film when Universal unveils it at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 13, at a world premiere that will find their two colleagues on-stage with the actresses who portray them,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
José Andrés, Clive Davis, Ava DuVernay, Marian Wright Edelman, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Serena Williams and Venus Williams will be honored at the National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait of a Nation Awards on Nov. 12.
The event, which started in 2015, “honor extraordinary individuals who have made transformative contributions to the United States and its people across all fields of endeavor from the arts and sciences,” according to the Smithsonian gallery. An exhibition featuring portraits of the honorees will open at the museum on Nov. 10.
Baratunde Thurston will host the event, with Laurene Powell Jobs presenting to Andres; Alicia Keys to Davis; Isabel Wilkerson to DuVernay; Hillary Clinton to Edelman; David M. Rubenstein to Fauci; Mellody Hobson to Serena Williams and Sonya Haffey and Isha Price to Venus Williams.
Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Galley, said in a statement, “It is important to honor and celebrate the people who...
The event, which started in 2015, “honor extraordinary individuals who have made transformative contributions to the United States and its people across all fields of endeavor from the arts and sciences,” according to the Smithsonian gallery. An exhibition featuring portraits of the honorees will open at the museum on Nov. 10.
Baratunde Thurston will host the event, with Laurene Powell Jobs presenting to Andres; Alicia Keys to Davis; Isabel Wilkerson to DuVernay; Hillary Clinton to Edelman; David M. Rubenstein to Fauci; Mellody Hobson to Serena Williams and Sonya Haffey and Isha Price to Venus Williams.
Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Galley, said in a statement, “It is important to honor and celebrate the people who...
- 8/24/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
You might liken it to “Crossfire” for the era of President Donald Trump.
Talent agency UTA has casually pitched MSNBC and CNN the idea of a new program featuring Trump confidant Anthony Scaramucci and anti-Trump attorney Michael Avenatti, according to a person familiar with the situation. No deal has been made, this person said, and there is no guarantee the concept will come to fruition. A show could not launch until after Avenatti dispenses with current client obligations, this person cautioned, including the case he has been pursuing on behalf of adult actress Stormy Daniels.
MSNBC declined to comment. UTA declined to comment. A CNN spokesperson could not be reached for immediate comment. The nascent effort to package the two figures was reported previously by The New York Times.
The idea sounds like an update of “Crossfire,” the venerable CNN program that pit one liberal pundit (“on the left”) against...
Talent agency UTA has casually pitched MSNBC and CNN the idea of a new program featuring Trump confidant Anthony Scaramucci and anti-Trump attorney Michael Avenatti, according to a person familiar with the situation. No deal has been made, this person said, and there is no guarantee the concept will come to fruition. A show could not launch until after Avenatti dispenses with current client obligations, this person cautioned, including the case he has been pursuing on behalf of adult actress Stormy Daniels.
MSNBC declined to comment. UTA declined to comment. A CNN spokesperson could not be reached for immediate comment. The nascent effort to package the two figures was reported previously by The New York Times.
The idea sounds like an update of “Crossfire,” the venerable CNN program that pit one liberal pundit (“on the left”) against...
- 5/17/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Late-night politico Seth Meyers moderated a panel at the American Magazine Media Conference on Tuesday with a group of journalists and editors including Gayle King, Nancy Gibbs, Michael Kinsley, and New York's Jonathan Chait. It was the day after the Iowa caucuses, where Donald Trump lost to Ted Cruz despite leading in the polls, which naturally gave Meyers the opportunity to opine on what the voters were thinking. "My theory with Trump and the polls was that telling a pollster you were voting for Donald Trump was a very cathartic thing to do. It’s a little bit like having a few drinks at the bar and telling your friends next to you, 'The next time my boss tells me to work weekends, I’m going to tell him to eff off' — but then when the time comes you realize, No, I need this job," said Meyers. "When it’s...
- 2/3/2016
- by Jenna Reyes
- Vulture
Creators vs. Corporations: Writer Gary Friedrich, who created a new version of Ghost Rider in the early 70s, lost a lawsuit against Marvel in which he claimed rights to “non-comic derivative versions” of his work. The judge in the case ruled that Friedrich signed away those rights in 1978, which means that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (pictured above), starring Nicolas Cage, is free to ride into theaters in February. (The Hollywood Reporter) Who’s to Blame?: Filmmaker Andrew Rossi contends that a negative review by Michael Kinsley, published in The New York Times, “probably cut ... box office in half, at least” for Rossi’s documentary Page One: Inside The New York Times. Kinsley, who is not a film critic and...
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- 12/30/2011
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Of all the movies that have opened this weekend, the one that's generated the most interesting press by far is Page One: Inside The New York Times. The usual round of promotional interviews, for example, turns out to have been not so usual. Talking with writer-director-cinematographer Andrew Rossi and co-writer Kate Novack, a husband-and-wife team of a documentary filmmaker and a former media reporter, Eric Hynes acknowledges that his piece for the Voice can't help but lay on another layer of meta. Right off, he has Novack commenting on Page One's focus on the Nyt media desk: "It was journalists reporting on journalism, and we were working as journalists covering that."
So it goes in other interviews: Drew Taylor's with Rossi for the Playlist; Stephen Saito's with Rossi and Nyt media reporter David Carr, indisputably the star of Page One, for IFC; Sarah Ellison's with Gay Talese, author of the 1969 classic,...
So it goes in other interviews: Drew Taylor's with Rossi for the Playlist; Stephen Saito's with Rossi and Nyt media reporter David Carr, indisputably the star of Page One, for IFC; Sarah Ellison's with Gay Talese, author of the 1969 classic,...
- 6/18/2011
- MUBI
The New York Times outsourced its review of Page One: Inside the New York Times to former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, and his response was less than fawning: "The movie, directed by Andrew Rossi, is, in a word, a mess," he says, soon adding, "Like a shopper at the supermarket without a shopping list, Page One careers around the aisles picking up this item and that one, ultimately coming home with three jars of peanut butter and no 2-percent milk. [...] The Times deserves a better movie, and so do you. See His Girl Friday again." Still seeing it. And I'd pay double to watch David Carr square off against Roz Russell. [Nyt]...
- 6/17/2011
- Movieline
Ever an institution of objective journalism, The New York Times was in a little bit of a tight spot when it came to issuing a review of Page One, a new documentary all about the Times. Luckily, the guest reviewer they brought on in order to stay neutral, Michael Kinsley, hated the movie anyway! "The movie, directed by Andrew Rossi, is, in a word, a mess," Kinsley says right off the bat, and only gets harsher. Highlights include this gem of a really mean metaphor: "Like a shopper at the supermarket without a shopping list, Page One careers around the aisles picking up this item and that one, ultimately coming home with three jars of peanut butter and no two-percent milk." Finally Kinsley concludes, "The Times deserves a better movie, and so do you." Ouch. Somehow, though, I still kind of want to [...]...
- 6/17/2011
- Nerve
To maintain its objectivity, The New York Times tapped someone outside the paper to review "Page One," Andrew Rossi's documentary about the struggle of the "Gray Lady" to survive in the digital age. "Page One" plays like a love letter to the Times, but the Times' review was written with a poison pen. Instead of a rave about the film's elegiac look at the "paper of record" Michael Kinsley, the guest critic in question, delivered a shellacking. Kinsley, a senior advisor for Bloomberg View, the business publication's new opinion section, labeled the movie...
- 6/17/2011
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
United States (ProPublica) - by Jesse Eisinger - ProPublica
HBO's "Too Big To Fail"—I just caught up with it last night; thank you, HBO On Demand—is extraordinarily revealing about the financial crisis. Only its revelations are almost entirely inadvertent.
The movie is set up in the Hollywood conventional way: A gang of misfits, each with a special expertise, is brought together for an impossible mission. There's Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, steely eyed at the moment of truth. There's New York Federal Reserve head Timothy Geithner, the athlete (he doesn't just jog, but also plays what appears to be squash). And then there's Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, the professor with a heart of gold and secret knowledge of the Great Depression.
Ostensibly it's a story of their success against all odds. Michael Kinsley, reviewing the movie in the New York Times, labeled Hank Paulson the "hero" of the account.
HBO's "Too Big To Fail"—I just caught up with it last night; thank you, HBO On Demand—is extraordinarily revealing about the financial crisis. Only its revelations are almost entirely inadvertent.
The movie is set up in the Hollywood conventional way: A gang of misfits, each with a special expertise, is brought together for an impossible mission. There's Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, steely eyed at the moment of truth. There's New York Federal Reserve head Timothy Geithner, the athlete (he doesn't just jog, but also plays what appears to be squash). And then there's Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, the professor with a heart of gold and secret knowledge of the Great Depression.
Ostensibly it's a story of their success against all odds. Michael Kinsley, reviewing the movie in the New York Times, labeled Hank Paulson the "hero" of the account.
- 5/25/2011
- icelebz.com
• Today in secrecy: a federal court has ruled that the C.I.A. may not be sued for any torture it may or may not have committed overseas. National security purposes, you understand. [The New York Times] • Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam of the Park51 Center, said on last night’s Larry King Live that should the mosque be moved, America might incite the ire of Muslims who feel “that Islam is under attack.” [CNN] • And while we’re on the subject of the mosque . a new Washington Post–ABC News poll found that two-thirds of those surveyed are against the Park51 Center’s construction. [The Washington Post] • Michael Kinsley, patron saint of online journalism, and Joe Scarborough, a former congressman and MSNBC talking head, will begin writing opinion columns at Politico. [Politico] • Ron Howard will direct an epic three-part film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Brian Grazer, naturally, will produce. [Deadline Hollywood Daily]...
- 9/9/2010
- Vanity Fair
Over at The Atlantic, Michael Kinsley has some words of wisdom for those inclined to over-interpret the Tea Party mandate: Some people think that what unites the Tea Party Patriots is simple racism. I doubt that. But the Tea Party movement is not the solution to what ails America. It is an illustration of what ails America. Not because it is right-wing or because it is sometimes susceptible to crazed conspiracy theories, and not because of racism, but because of the movement’s self-indulgent premise that none of our challenges and difficulties are our own fault. I might add that these angry souls are apparently being manipulated into worrying about a “problem” that bothered the Republicans under George W. Bush not a whit: namely, the looming deficit that supposedly will capsize our economy according to the newly minted Grecian formula unless Barack Obama has his hands forcibly removed from the nation’s collective cash register.
- 5/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
By Dylan Stableford
Michael Kinsley, Atlantic columnist and editor of a soon-to-be launched Atlantic Media site, wrote an article – published on the Atlantic website -- under the heading “Newspaper articles are too long.”
Kinsley argues that readers are abandoning print for online because of brevity, not necessarily technology.
He points to a couple of recent print articles – from the New York Times and Washington Post – on healthcare reform, noting their word counts (Times: 1,456; Post: 1,500) and promptly tears them apart for unnecessary verbiage.
The irony ...
Michael Kinsley, Atlantic columnist and editor of a soon-to-be launched Atlantic Media site, wrote an article – published on the Atlantic website -- under the heading “Newspaper articles are too long.”
Kinsley argues that readers are abandoning print for online because of brevity, not necessarily technology.
He points to a couple of recent print articles – from the New York Times and Washington Post – on healthcare reform, noting their word counts (Times: 1,456; Post: 1,500) and promptly tears them apart for unnecessary verbiage.
The irony ...
- 1/6/2010
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
By Dylan Stableford
The Atlantic announced today that Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate, former editor of at The New Republic, Harper's and Los Angeles Times opinion pages, is joining the magazine.
Kinsley will write a regular media column for the magazine and, more interestingly, serve as editor-in-chief of “a new digital media property launching in early 2010.”
When I asked an Atlantic rep for more info, he declined to giveth, othe...
The Atlantic announced today that Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate, former editor of at The New Republic, Harper's and Los Angeles Times opinion pages, is joining the magazine.
Kinsley will write a regular media column for the magazine and, more interestingly, serve as editor-in-chief of “a new digital media property launching in early 2010.”
When I asked an Atlantic rep for more info, he declined to giveth, othe...
- 9/11/2009
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
New York -- Veteran comedy producers and masterminds of the defunct U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen are returning to the mountain resort as part of this week's Aspen Ideas Festival to try out a format mixing politics and comedy called "The News Has No Clothes."
If the stage show works, producers could end up pitching the concept -- described as "The View" and "Politically Incorrect" meet old BBC show "That Was the Week That Was" -- to TV networks for a possible late-night slot.
The team behind the idea includes Joe Lang, director of festival producer Jazz Aspen Snowmass and former local producer for Uscaf; Craig Minassian, assistant press secretary and director of TV news in the Clinton White House and Uscaf director; Robert Morton, former executive producer of "Late Show With David Letterman" and Comedy Central's "Chocolate News"; and Stu Smiley, executive producer of "Flight of...
If the stage show works, producers could end up pitching the concept -- described as "The View" and "Politically Incorrect" meet old BBC show "That Was the Week That Was" -- to TV networks for a possible late-night slot.
The team behind the idea includes Joe Lang, director of festival producer Jazz Aspen Snowmass and former local producer for Uscaf; Craig Minassian, assistant press secretary and director of TV news in the Clinton White House and Uscaf director; Robert Morton, former executive producer of "Late Show With David Letterman" and Comedy Central's "Chocolate News"; and Stu Smiley, executive producer of "Flight of...
- 6/29/2009
- by By Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Katha Pollitt, digesting the prospect of Ross Douthat beaming aboard the NY Times' op-ed page: I haven't read his collected cyberworks, but even for a blogo-pundit, Douthat seems unusually averse to engaging with women intellectually, even on perennial topics like abortion and birth control, where you'd think we'd bring something missing to the table--like an interest in our health, well-being, happiness, longevity, pleasure and ability to have some control over our lives. Instead, he engages Slate's Will Saletan on whether contraception would prevent enough abortions to make it worth expanding government funding. Douthat thinks not; but if abortion is murder, wouldn't preventing 12,000 of them (his misleadingly low figure) be quite an accomplishment? That's equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the 17,000 murders of born people in the United States every year. In his ongoing stem cell debate with Michael Kinsley, sometimes embryos are people, and sometimes they're counters in arguments that are really about sex,...
- 3/23/2009
- Vanity Fair
It's like Timmy waving goodbye to Lassie, the heart-welling farewell tossed by Marc Ambinder to his Atlantic colleague Ross Douthat, soon to occupy the op-ed slot at The New York Times stained by the late, yet still irksomely present, William of Kristol. Steadying himself against a railing while the coffee machine refills, Ambinder produces quite a ballad to consecrate this bittersweet moment (via TBogg): It's one step back for the Atlantic, but an order of magnitude forward for the country: my colleagues and I learned today that senior editor Ross Douthat will, in short order, become an opinion columnist for the New York Times. Ross is a late-twenties-year-old public intellectual with the sensibility of a 60-year eminence grise, the range of a Hitchens, the pitch of a conservative Ajp Taylor, the conscience of a Neibuhr and the intellectual honesty of his frequent sparring partner, Andrew Sullivan. Not to mention...
- 3/12/2009
- Vanity Fair
Fighting the global war on terrorism is vexing enough in real life. Fighting it on the small screen from a highly politicized point of view would be a tactical mistake, a group of top television writer-producers said Monday night at a panel session on the subject of "Television Goes to War." Steven Bochco, co-creator and executive producer with Chris Gerolmo of FX's Iraq war drama Over There, said that they sought from the inception of the show to keep its focus on the lives of "grunts" on the ground and not on larger questions of U.S. foreign policy, morality or geopolitical concerns. Panel moderator Michael Kinsley, editorial and opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times, suggested that the lack of explicit discussion of the politics of the war in Iraq among the main characters in Over There was in and of itself an anti-war statement given the show's gritty portrayal of the chaos and carnage enveloping those grunts. But Bochco and Gerolmo disagreed.
- 8/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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