Anne Frank

Mighty Fine: Debbie Goodstein's Sappy Nostalgia

LITERARY LIGHTS

Hunter hosts Nathan Englander, Kathryn Harrison, Peter Carey, and Tom Sleigh

Scientology Intervention: Commenters of the Week!

It's not often that things are calm and soothing here inside the underground bunker. But after Judge Stryker gave the order yesterday for everyone just to chill out, we took it to heart. Even the cats are taking a break from tearing up the furniture. There was plenty of activity this week, though, ... More >>

Dishy Talk With Joan and Melissa Rivers!

Kvetching with my favorite mother-daughter yenta duo

Film Classics I Don't Want To See In 3D

Disney has learned that if you bring back a classic cartoon in 3-D, you make many more dimensions of moola. But I pray the same trend doesn't hit some other types of screen gems because in my lifetime, I absolutely never want to see the following: *Gandhi in 3-D Thrill to Mahatma's protruding ri ... More >>

Joan Rivers And I Discuss AIDS Epidemic: Not For The PC

​After last night's performance of the AIDS play The Normal Heart, people were shattered, as they are every night. At the after party, I saw my old friend Joan Rivers and asked her thoughts. "I was very uplifted at the end!" she beamed. Oh, no. She wasn't going to go there, was she? I love ... More >>

A McGovern Voter Absolves the Nixonian Majority

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 23, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 47 Let George undo it by Joe Flaherty Well, with the election over and the inevitable results in, the inevitable has happened -- the pogrom has begun. Not, however, the one that was expected. In a perv ... More >>

Anne Frank Appears Off-Broadway

The Public Theater offers a diary product—Rinne Groff's Compulsion

DARK OBSESSION

How Anne Frank’s diary reached the American masses

Winter Guide: Holiday Gift Books for Any Kind of Troublesome Friend

Frenemies? Self-important hipsters? No literary problem.

Winter Guide: New York Theatre Workshop Uncorks Three Pianos

A guide to winter plays

My Most Offensive Conversational Gambit Evah!

​Last night, at a gay party at the Park, a young gentleman approached me, wrongly thinking my spazzing hand had beckoned him over. Since he'd so gamely sashayed forth, I generously struck up a conversation with the guy. "You sort of look like Anne Frank" I observantly chirped, right off the ... More >>

Queer as Folk Star Goes Lesbian!

Plus, which Tiger Woods mistress is trailer-ier?

With 3-D CGI, Peter Jackson Makes a One-Dimensional Lovely Bones

Plus, which Tiger Woods mistress is trailer-ier?

Judith Jones on Cooking for One

Christopher Hirsheimer​The summary of Judith Jones' life's work so far is enough to make your head spin. She is currently senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, which she joined in 1957. Before that, she had worked for Doubleday in New York and Paris, where she accomplished littl ... More >>

Is Precious, With Mo'Nique, The Movie of the Year?

Plus sizing up other leading ladies, nightlife crime, and Tony hopefuls.

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic via kbell7. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people -- whoops, sorry, wrong diary. Our week was much worse. DC37 went for Bill Thompson. But what did Mayor Bloomberg care -- he had Twitter ... More >>

Leaked: Excerpt from David Mamet's The Diary of Anne Frank

​Peter: Goddamned fucking Nazis. Anne: You want a potato? Peter: No, I don't want a potato. Anne: Take a potato. Peter: I don't want a fucking potato. Anne: Go on, take a potato. Peter: What do I want with a fucking potato? Anne: We're starving. Peter: (pause) What the hell, I'll take a potat ... More >>

Interview: The Onion's Nathan Rabin on His New Pop Cult Memoir, The Big Rewind

"I think there are good pop culture references and bad pop culture references. I don't want to be Family Guy. I don't want it to be just a bunch of disconnected pop culture randomness." ​ Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The Onion's A.V. Club and the author of the New York Times-approved ... More >>

Bea Arthur, RIP

Alan LightNobody could do a slow burn like Bea Arthur, the hilarious comic actress who was the anything but tranquilizin' right-on Maude and later the witheringly sarcastic Dorothy on The Golden Girls. With her wicked wit, Bea pushed envelopes while making audiences think and scream with laughter at ... More >>

Clip Job: Roy Cohn, Boxing Promoter

Alan LightNobody could do a slow burn like Bea Arthur, the hilarious comic actress who was the anything but tranquilizin' right-on Maude and later the witheringly sarcastic Dorothy on The Golden Girls. With her wicked wit, Bea pushed envelopes while making audiences think and scream with laughter at ... More >>

Orchard Street: How the Other Half Lives

Once the heart of tenement New York, it's now home to million-dollar condos for a very different kind of settler.

Horniness Meets Horror in Stalags

Doc explores Israel's Holocaust s&m lit. Also, Tehilim gets lost in Jerusalem.

Betcha Bottom Dollar That Tomorrow . . . There'll Be Bad Musicals

Doc explores Israel's Holocaust s&m lit. Also, Tehilim gets lost in Jerusalem.

The Very Best "Best of '07" Round-Up!

The absolutely last word on words not to have lived by during the previous year

Live: Say Anything at Hammerstein Ballroom

The absolutely last word on words not to have lived by during the previous year

Endgame

Philip Roth evokes Samuel Beckett in a farewell to alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman

In the Dark

Philip Roth evokes Samuel Beckett in a farewell to alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman

A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met

White supremacists from across the country gather in New Jersey and New York for barbecue and culture.

Going Dutch

Back in his native Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft one slick, quick WWII thriller

Divide and Conquer

A heroine with pink Uggs and a head for numbers

Every Molly Has an Emo Album

On the brash, brilliant, and thoroughly vexing Say Anything

Hope Floats

Wet hot American bummer: Chris Adrian's post-flood Magic Mountain

Anarchy in the U.K.

The Wachowski brothers' supremely tasteless take on a visionary 1980s graphic novel

NY Mirror

The Wachowski brothers' supremely tasteless take on a visionary 1980s graphic novel

'Pretty Persuasion'

The Wachowski brothers' supremely tasteless take on a visionary 1980s graphic novel

The Juror and the Convict

Lynne Harriton was the jury foreman at Andre Smith's trial in the Carnegie Deli murder case. Now she's his closest friend.

Seamen and Booty

Mutiny on the Bounty's what these stevedores are all about

NY Mirror

Mutiny on the Bounty's what these stevedores are all about

Blood at the Root

Mutiny on the Bounty's what these stevedores are all about

Army of Lovers

Mutiny on the Bounty's what these stevedores are all about

Houses of Mirth

Mutiny on the Bounty's what these stevedores are all about

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Can Window Dressing Turn Into a Window?

Woman on the Wilder Shores

Andrea Kleine's Mockumentary

Flying Saucer Rock & Roll

Thomas Anderson's Desert Discs