MAUREEN DOWD

July 7, 2022

Ken Auletta Finally Wrote the Harvey Weinstein Story He Wanted to Tell

The New Yorker writer talks about his new Weinstein biography, and the worst person he ever covered. It’s someone else. Are monsters made or born? That […]
July 7, 2022

Ken Auletta Finally Wrote the Harvey Weinstein Story He Wanted to Tell

The New Yorker writer talks about his new Weinstein biography, and the worst person he ever covered. It’s someone else. Are monsters made or born? That […]
May 28, 2022

Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude

The Netflix executive says he — and the company he helped build — will survive a bout of bad earnings numbers. Maybe it was the tower […]
May 21, 2022

Baz Luhrmann Talks ‘Elvis’ With Maureen Dowd

Baz Luhrmann dreams big. In a streaming world where, as Norma Desmond predicted, the movies get smaller, the Australian director keeps going bigger. After his 2013 […]
December 11, 2021

Patti LuPone on 'Company,' Stephen Sondheim and More

Her friends say there is nothing more fun than hanging with Patti LuPone while she’s having a glass of wine. That’s not true. There is something […]
December 4, 2021

Denzel Washington, Man on Fire

When Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand began rehearsing to play the Macbeths, he asked her how she thought the couple had met. Oh, she replied blithely, […]
May 31, 2021

Maureen Dowd Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ With Kate Winslet

Philly’s a tough town. If there’s a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it’s this one: In 2015, when Canadian researchers developed a child-sized […]
May 7, 2021

Maureen Dowd Interviews Ewan McGregor About Playing Halston

For a new Netflix series, the actor dropped his lightsaber and picked up the cigarettes and scissors. When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in […]
December 5, 2020

Candice Bergen, from 'Murphy Brown' to Instagram

Bird’s eye view:Ms. Bergen, pictured in the Pacific Palisades,is starring with Meryl Streep and Dianne Wiest in Steven Soderbergh’s new extemporaneous movie, “Let Them All Talk.”Credit…Ryan […]
December 5, 2020

Candice Bergen, from 'Murphy Brown' to Instagram

Bird’s eye view:Ms. Bergen, pictured in the Pacific Palisades,is starring with Meryl Streep and Dianne Wiest in Steven Soderbergh’s new extemporaneous movie, “Let Them All Talk.”Credit…Ryan […]