Penn Jillette’s Marathon Life in Magic
At 6’6” tall, Penn Jillette is a huge character. He’s got a huge frame, a huge personality, and huge appetites. It’s a trait that has occasionally gotten him into trouble; he weighed, until a recent …
At 6’6” tall, Penn Jillette is a huge character. He’s got a huge frame, a huge personality, and huge appetites. It’s a trait that has occasionally gotten him into trouble; he weighed, until a recent …
Paul Simon is one of the great American entertainers—a mantle he’s worn since he started singing harmony with grade-school friend Art Garfunkel in a duo called Tom & Jerry. In the following six …
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker magazine. It’s a title he’s held since 1998, and one that requires a tireless attention to detail, and an endless awareness of current news, trends, and …
BP recently settled civil lawsuits over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the tune of more than 18 billion dollars. But it’s not the end of the story for the worst marine spill in U.S. …
A prestigious agent signed playwright John Guare before he had even graduated from Yale School of Drama, saying he showed promise. In the five decades since, Guare has been one of the most …
The Graduate. Midnight Cowboy. Lenny. That’s just the beginning of Dustin Hoffman’s legendary Hollywood career. Over the last five decades, he’s stretched and contorted himself into dozens of …
When Gay Talese couldn’t land an interview with Frank Sinatra, he wrote the profile instead by talking to Sinatra’s tailor, stylist, valet, and other secondary characters in the pop star’s …
Ian Schrager is in the hospitality business. Hotels or nightclubs, uptown or downtown, Miami or Manhattan, Schrager defines luxury and leisure. When he and his late business partner Steve Rubell …
Edie Falco says she is nothing like Carmela Soprano. Nor does she have much in common with Nurse Jackie. But Falco made these characters two of the most identifiable and human women in television …
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. …