Billevesées

While many of Patricia Neal’s most acclaimed performances have thus far eluded my moviegoing, I admire everything I’ve seen of her. She was ...

The scene: The headquarters of “Family Values for U.S., Not You,” a leading think-tank. SHE: Well, I admit I was disappointed in Judge Walk...

With one last embrace from her dear Maman and a few instructions on making coffee, we come to the end of Madeleine’s adventures in the kitch...

Charm in fiction is an elusive quality that yields particular pleasures to the reader. I’m still trying to figure out how to achieve charm i...

MADELEINE’S JOURNAL TWENTY-THIRD ENTRY The homecoming. — Madeleine’s good sense. The clock had struck for our departure. We packed our trunk...

Death be not plastic: The anxiety begins. In life, the process of maturation, a theme that runs through most Pixar movies, leads inexorably ...

Spend time in theaters and concert halls, and you start to keep a list, close to the heart, of great evenings or mere moments when an artist...