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July 23, 2023

Ann Roth Is Hollywood’s Secret Weapon

Inside the studio of the costume master who helped give the world “Klute,” “The English Patient,” “Midnight Cowboy,” “Working Girl,” “Mamma Mia!” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” […]
March 11, 2023

Mel Brooks Isn’t Done Punching Up the History of the World

Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead […]
March 11, 2023

Mel Brooks Isn’t Done Punching Up the History of the World

Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead […]
December 4, 2022

Greta Gerwig, in the Pink

Greta Gerwig can be scattered. But she likes to say that the greater the chaos and uncertainty, the calmer she gets. When I met her at […]
October 29, 2022

Ryan Murphy Is Having a Very Happy Halloween

When he was 14, Ryan Murphy made a cigarette holder out of paper clips so he could pretend he was Norma Desmond and smoke “Sunset Boulevard” […]
October 29, 2022

Ryan Murphy Is Having a Very Happy Halloween

When he was 14, Ryan Murphy made a cigarette holder out of paper clips so he could pretend he was Norma Desmond and smoke “Sunset Boulevard” […]
October 22, 2022

Ralph Fiennes Is Playing Robert Moses in ‘Straight Line Crazy’

TORONTO — After 10 minutes sitting alone, I panicked. I was meeting Ralph Fiennes for dinner and suddenly realized I was in the wrong restaurant. The […]
September 10, 2022

Jann Wenner Wants to Reveal It All

MONTAUK, N.Y. — Rock may be dead, but Jann Wenner is still rolling. The founder of Rolling Stone magazine always had a baby face, but he […]
September 6, 2022

Christine Baranski Brings Throwback Flair to Her Ripped-From-the-Headlines Stardom

It’s pretty meta that I’m sitting with an actress who’s the epitome of Upper East Side sophistication in a hotel that’s the epitome of Upper East […]
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 […]