A Serial Upper East Side Satirist Skewers Social Media-Addicted Socialites
Jill Kargman’s new film ‘Influenced’ contains a plot twist about a billionaire tax but the actress and writer distances herself from Mamdani.
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Tom Teodorczuk is a Contributor of The New York Sun.
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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Is a Smash Hit, but its Success Reflects the Humbling of Luxury Fashion
The hit sequel to the 2006 film suggests that fashion is now a more niche, but nicer, industry, compared with two decades ago.
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Arthur Baker’s New Documentary ‘Rockers Don’t Stop’ Chronicles a Seminal New York Dance Group Reuniting After Four Decades
A new documentary, premiering as part of the Doc’n Roll music film festival, explores the inimitable fate of Rockers Revenge.
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‘Reunion’: A Coming-of-Age Second World War Film Belatedly Comes of Age
Jerry Schatzberg’s 1989 film, about the rupturing of a schoolboy friendship in Germany just before the Holocaust, is finally being given its due.
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A Film Producer Trades Moving Pictures for Photographing Exotic Greek Island Landscapes
Paul Raphael is staging his first ever photographic exhibition on the Greek island of Ios, at the age of 68.
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A Leading Actor, in His New Documentary, Confronts Wrongdoing by Bankman-Fried and Others in Crypto Space
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Anti-Trump Actor Robert De Niro Calls for Election Voter ‘Screening Process’
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The Curious Hollywood Retreat of ‘Harry Potter’ Star Emma Watson
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Rebecca De Mornay on Reconnecting With Tom Cruise and Making Her New York Theater Debut
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Debate Intensifies Over the Merits of Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar Loss
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And the Oscar for Best Best Picture Goes to…
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