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BGS: Buster Keaton
A few days ago I curated the following essay by Charles Simic on Buster Keaton over at the Daily Beast. Check it out, won’t you? Comedy is about timing, faultless timing. It’s not so much what the...
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BGS: The Writer as Detective Hero
Last weekend at the Beast, I had the pleasure to reprint Ross MacDonald’s 1965 essay for Show magazine, “The Writer As Detective Hero”. Dig in: A producer who last year was toying with the idea of...
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BGS: Krim!
The latest reprint over at the Beast is a rich piece of ’60′s pop culture criticism from the inimitable Seymour Krim. All about Jack Kerouac: As an Outsider, then, French Canadian, Catholic (“I am a...
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BGS: My Father’s War
Peter Richmond is a good man, loyal friend, and a gifted writer. Here he is at his best, writing about his father for GQ in December of 1993. The article was the genesis of Richmond’s beautiful...
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BGS: King Louis
My latest reprint for The Daily Beast gives Nat Hentoff on Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong, summoned by King Oliver, came up to Chicago in the summer of 1922, Buster Bailey reports that “Louis upset...
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BGS: Enough With The Resurrections, Already!
Here’s a treat for you. From our pal Mark Jacobson comes a 1990 Esquire profile on Jackie Mason. Originally titled “Enough with the Resurrections, Already!” the story appears here with the author’s...
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BGS: Mel Brooks Says This is the Funniest Man in the World
Really enjoyed reprinting Harry Stein’s 1976 Esquire profile of Harry Ritz. Dig in. “As far as I’m concerned,” says Mel Brooks, “Harry Ritz was the funniest man ever. His craziness and his freedom...
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Million Dollar Movie
You guys know me as a P. Kael freak so you can imagine how honored I am to be able to reprint one of her reviews–of a fun movie too (Damn, I miss Raul Julia): The movie is a confluence of fantasies,...
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Look, Honey, Yourself. Give me a Jax.
I love the movie version of Paul Hemphill’s baseball novel, Long Gone. It wasn’t released theatrically but went straight to HBO instead. Came out the year before Bull Durham and in some ways–the sex...
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BGS: Trading Places
This past weekend over at The Stacks, I reprinted Peter Richmond’s 1992 GQ profile of Eddie: “[My] popularity after Beverly Hills Cop—all that ‘He’s so hot’ shit—everything was going out of control....
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Million Dollar Movie
Check out Michael Sragow’s admiring review of Once Upon A Time In America and then dig the restored director’s cut that was released a few years back. I haven’t seen the movie since the Eighties. It’s...
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The Selling of The Babe
Bronx Banter Book Excerpt Longtime Banter pal, Glenn Stout’s got a new book out and I think you’ll dig it. Here’s an except to whet your appetite. I’m sure you are gonna like this.—AB By Glenn Stout...
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Senior Rod Goes Down Singing
[Our old pal Robert Ward has been telling a story about Rod Steiger for years and he's kind enough to drop by and share it with us. For some good ol’ on location movie fun, check this out.—Alex Belth]...
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BGS: Ali! Ali! Ali!
The King is Dead. Long Live the King. Here is our man John Schulian’s 1998 Ali appreciation for GQ, reprinted here with the author’s permission.—AB Ali! Ali! Ali! By John Schulian I remember a night...
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Million Dollar Movie: Out of the Woods
If you don’t know from Eve Babitz, prepared to be charmed. I wrote about her last week over at Esquire Classic, and can’t recommend her two volumes of memoirs—Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast...
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Million Dollar Movie: Gorgo, Warhol, Rocky, and Me
The final episode The Night Of, HBO’s engrossing eight-part series co-created by Richard Price, airs this Sunday and if you have not been watching, have a little binge and catch up—you’ll dig it. Price...
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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell is one of my favorite artists and Charles Simic is one of my favorite writers so you can imagine how thrilled I am to present a few excerpts from Simic’s charming—and...
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My Life in a 36DD Bra, Or, The All-American Obsession
Here is another sure shot from the enchanting Eve Babitz. Originally published in the April 1976 issue of Ms. Magazine, it appears here with the author’s permission. (For more on Babitz, ready Lili...
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Krim, Breslin, and the Million Dollar “Jewboy” Caper
The following two articles by the one and only Seymour Krim appear in his bitchin’ anthology You and Me. They were originally published in the New York Times Book Review and Changes, respectively and...
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He Loves to Say Her Name
Here is our pal John Schulian’s 1980 column on Jake LaMotta, who passed away a few days ago at the age of 95. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.—AB She keeps dabbing at her left eye...
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