Articles Written by:    CARYN JAMES     

Philanderer in Chief

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Corbis American Adulterer, Jed Mercurio’s libido-fueled novel about JFK, tackles the big question: What was he thinking? Caryn James on scheming pols and ...

From CARYN JAMES, The Daily Beast,  19 Jul 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Caryn James,  Marilyn Monroe,  Mark Sanford,  John Ensign

The Show About Schlong

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Chuck Hodes / HBO Caryn James takes on Hung, HBO's saucy new comedy about an exceptionally well-endowed man. We never see the humongous dick that gives HBO’s ...

From CARYN JAMES, The Daily Beast,  27 Jun 2009
Related Topics: HBO,  New York Times Company,  Caryn James,  Tina Brown,  Thomas Jane

The Best Action Film and the Woman Who Directed It

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Courtesy of Summit Entertainment With a white-knuckled new movie about an American bomb squad in Iraq, director Kathryn Bigelow proves once again that if women ...

From CARYN JAMES, The Daily Beast,  27 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Kathryn Bigelow,  Anthony Mackie

Afghanistan's Got Talent

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Three new films depicting a hidden side of Islam debut this week. From transsexuals in Iran to the stoning of an adultress, to Afghanistan’s version of American ...

From CARYN JAMES, The Daily Beast,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  American Idol,  Caryn James

The Real-Life Gossip Girl

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Though the privileged stars of Bravo’s new series, NYC Prep, claim to hate Gossip Girl, they’re modeling their every move after Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf. It ...

From CARYN JAMES, The Daily Beast,  22 Jun 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Caryn James,  Harvard University,  MSNBC,  Charlie Rose

Indie Movies About Working-Class Women Are Less Than Enlightened

With stylish women flaunting recessionista chic and Michelle Obama embracing her modest roots—“my parents were working class people,” she repeats in speeches—it may seem like a timely advance that a flurry of independent films (in theaters and on DVD) ...

From CARYN JAMES, Double X,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: Melissa Leo,  Michelle Obama,  Michelle Williams,  Tilda Swinton,  Erin Brockovich

Stranger Than Cinema

When he was 4 years old, just before the end of World War II, David Thomson’s granny told him Hitler might be hiding on the common where David played in their workaday London neighborhood. Find him, she said, and “the glory could be all yours.” No ...

From CARYN JAMES, The New York Times,  15 May 2009
Related Topics: David Thomson,  David O. Selznick,  Nicole Kidman,  Grace Kelly

Caryn James: Allegra, John and Anjelica Huston: Why Allegra's Fab Hollywood Memoir Speaks to Us

Thank goodness I'm not a Huston. I was entranced by Love Child, Allegra Huston's irresistible memoir about life with her genius Dad -- John Huston, director of masterpieces from The Maltese Falcon to The Man Who Would Be King -- and adored big sister, ...

From CARYN JAMES, Huffington Post,  6 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Anjelica Huston,  Caryn James,  Jack Nicholson,  John Huston,  Roman Polanski

Caryn James: Shopaholic Made Me Want to Buy a Scarf

Early in Confessions of a Shopaholic, Isla Fisher gazes into a store window at a glistening, diaphanous, emerald-green scarf, (the ultra-long kind that did Isadora Duncan in) and knows that if she buys it, it will change her life. We know that if she ...

From CARYN JAMES, Huffington Post,  12 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Caryn James,  Hugh Dancy,  Isla Fisher,  Isadora Duncan,  Money Magazine

Caryn James: On Culture and Politics: Lie to Me and the Age of Obama

Whew! Now we don't have to assume that every word coming out of the White House is a lie. But even in our new Obama age, human nature hasn't changed; every day we are surrounded by lying, cheating, manipulative foes and friends (kind-hearted white ...

From CARYN JAMES, Huffington Post,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Tim Roth,  Caryn James,  Paul Ekman,  George W. Bush

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