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Dennis Hopper Bikes Back
In one of Hollywood’s hottest comebacks of the ’80s, Dennis Hopper rose from the ashes of a diabolical past.
The Front Page
What Joan Didion Taught Me
Sara Davidson’s 40-year friendship with Joan Didion
Bradshaw: The Indiana Jones of Magazine Journalism
Dying young fit the romantic image of the hard-drinking writer, and Bradshaw was a confirmed romantic who concocted his own literary persona: the magazine journalist as world-weary adventurer and dashing man-about-town.
Creative Tension
By studying the link between artistic creativity and mood disorders, psychologist Kay Jamison has worked to make the world safer for people with manic-depressive illness. Now she’s about to find out whether she’s succeeded
Dangerous Jane
What Becomes a Legend Most?
The Park Avenue Desperado
In this corner, wearing a brown suit and tinted glasses, weighing in with 50 exclusive promotional contracts and grossing $25 million a year…
Don’t Waste Precious Time
Tom T. Hall’s wanderings in search of inspiration ceased Friday when he died at age 85. The best of the songs he left behind take chances, confront grown-up dilemmas, and bear the stamp of a literary sensibility.
Troy Donahue Was Always Just Like He Is
In Which We Learn the Truth about Hitler and the Beautiful People
Miller’s Tale
Arthur Miller, Lion in Winter
The Doobie Brothers—From the Top
Which Doobie, You-be?
Ron Rosenbaum Champions “Pale Fire”
Why this novel by Vladimir Nabokov was the “Novel of the 20th Century”
David Mamet’s Hard Sell
The first Broadway production of Mamet’s masterpiece was no sure thing.
Al Pacino: Out of the Shadows
How one of the great actors of his era went underground in the 1980s.