1995

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Anarchy in the U.S.A. – The GOP Plays a Dangerous Game With Its Far-Right Fringe

“Ever since Newt Gingrich turned self-hate into a campaign manifesto last November, the GOP has been conducting a risky affair with the far right”

by James Ridgeway

Originally published: August 8, 1995

Surface Tension: Michael Mann’s “Heat”

“Just as Miami remade itself to better resemble its image in Miami Vice, L.A. may rise eventually to Heat's desolate, sandblasted impersonality.”

Originally published: December 26, 1995

FEATURE ARCHIVES

Michael Douglas: Victim Victorious

“Improbable as it may seem, Michael Douglas currently commands a per-picture salary of some $15 million just to play That Evil White Guy You’re Always Complaining About.”

Originally published: March 7, 1995

FEATURE ARCHIVES

Whiny White Guys

“White men are no longer the whole against which we measure all the parts, but one more angry special interest group. Once they were 'mankind,' now they're just another niche in the endless segmentation markers and identities.”

by Richard Goldstein

Originally published: March 7, 1995

Sinatra at 80: Pal Frank

“Put him in a raincoat and trademark fedora and have him walk the streets of metropolitan America, and he comes alive on screen. His cockiness and swagger make sense on a street”

by Mary Cleere Haran

Originally published: June 20, 1995

Sinatra at 80: A Frank Top 10

As Raymond Chandler once wrote, “All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart.”

by Will Friedwald

Originally published: June 20, 1995

Sinatra at 80: Practice Makes Posterity

“Nobody who played jazz was considered able to walk in and do a studio call. They were convinced you couldn't read, or you wouldn't show up, or you'd fall down drunk”

by Milt Bernhart as told to Gary Giddins

Originally published: June 20, 1995

Sinatra at 80: Frank Swings

“Many jazz musicians don’t like singers, and some will go to great lengths to avoid playing for them. Not without reason. Frank Sinatra is a rare exception.”

Originally published: June 20, 1995

Sinatra at 80: The Greatest Singer of Them All

Originally published: June 20, 1995

Sinatra at 80: The Ultimate in Theater

“Like Garbo or Chaplin, he looms over the cultural life of the century, defying analysis, because every generation has to figure him out from scratch.”

by Gary Giddins

September 3, 2020