Charlie Rose with Terry George, Don Cheadle & Paul Rusesabagina; Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Audrey Tatou; Renata Adler, Mark Danner & Dennis Johnson. (November 26, 2004)
Jonathan Taylor writes : A few overdue links to start the week—you're catching up already! Aldo Buzzi, who was a longtime friend and collaborator of Saul Steinberg, died October 9 . He was 99. "I was born just in time to see the Russia of Chekhov," he wrote in " Cheknov in Sondrio " ( The New Yorker , September 14, 1992), a Sebaldian wandering through time, literature, and...
In 2004, Robert Birnbaum interviewed Renata Adler at The Morning News ; unsurprisingly, the matchup of these two idiosyncratic people produced an interesting, wide-ranging, scattershot interview touching on many aspects of writing and reporting and publishing. My colleague Benjamin Chambers has twice expressed befuddlement at Adler's inability to quote the last line of her own novel Speedboat accurately....
Scott says: "This is a great commentary on the 40th anniversary of Kubrick's masterpiece." The site includes this YouTube clip from an interview Kubrick. The famously sniffish Renata Adler got to weigh in during her short-lived reign at the New York Times: "There is one ultimate science-fiction voyage of a man (Keir Dullea) through outer and inner space, through the phases of his own...