Archives for August 2003

LET’S GET SERIOUS

August 13, 2003 by cmackie

A critic’s value is not determined by whether he/she’s right or wrong but whether he/she’s a good read. That’s one reason Martin Bernheimer is my favorite classical music connoisseur. (He’s right most of the time, too.) His review in the Financial Times of Fabio Biondi conducting an obscure Scarlati oratorio is the sort of classical-music […]

DRUM ROLL PLEASE . . .

August 11, 2003 by cmackie

The last time I looked, oh, about a month ago, this column was called The Juice. I wrote it for over a year at MSNBC.com, where (my staff of thousands reminds me) it was that Website’s most popular daily Weblog. (In the age of cyberspace, where visibility counts more than ever and mediagiants aim to monopolize the Web, a bit of independence at […]

Straight Up

August 10, 2003 by Jan Herman

The agenda is just what it says: news of arts, media & culture delivered with attitude. Or as Rock Hudson once said in a movie: “Man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump off.” Or as Straight Up’s staff of thousands says, “The rank stupidity […]

Books ‘n’ Stuff

August 10, 2003 by Jan Herman

My biography of the Hollywood director William Wyler, A Talent for Trouble, is available as an ebook at Amazon and an ebook on iTunes at the Apple store. Putnam published it in hardcover, and Da Capo Press published it in paperback. Several other books, include a collection of theater criticism, Second Nights (Vol.1) and (Vol. […]

My Checkered Career

August 10, 2003 by Jan Herman

I’ve been a staff writer covering arts and culture at the Los Angeles Times, a reporter and movie reviewer at The Daily News in New York, a reporter and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, a senior editor/producer and the theater critic for MSNBC.com, and a fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. […]

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