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Neil Genzlinger is an American playwright, editor and critic of books, theatre and television. He frequently writes for The New York Times, where he is a copy editor.

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Television Review | 'The Lost JFK Tapes': In Small Details, a Day That Stunned the Nation

Forty-six years after the fact it sometimes seems as if Nov. 22, 1963, were only 26 seconds long. That is roughly the length of the Zapruder film, the home movie that captured the shooting of President John F. Kennedy better than any other known ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Fitzgerald Kennedy,  National Geographic Channel,  Tom Jennings,  Secret Service,  White House

Familiar Faces Chasing Perps and Plots

IN the old days, the career path for a certain brand of celebrity, the kind who is more than a flash in the pan but less than a national treasure, had these three steps: The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steven Seagal,  Jesse Ventura,  Ozzy Osbourne,  MTV,  Dennis Rodman

Movie Review | 'Defamation': The Past in the Present

In his disorganized and somewhat annoying “Defamation,” Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker, tries to stir up a tempest with the notions that “anti-Semitic” has become an all-purpose label for anyone who dares criticize Israel and that some Jews’ ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yoav (musician),  Yoav Shamir,  Michael Moore

Television Review | 'Frontline: A Death in Tehran': That Face of Protest in Iran, Fading Fast

Neda Agha-Soltan died one of history’s most-watched deaths. It was in the midst of the fury over the Iranian presidential election of June 12, and for a moment it seemed as if the young woman’s final moments shot on a Tehran street on June 20 as a ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: PBS

43 Minutes Not Spent Watching TV

Who knows where the time goes? A new survey by the Nielsen Company says that a lot of it goes to watching television: the current average for Americans 2 years old and up is 4 hours 49 minutes a day, a record. This leaves us pondering many things, ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Lucas,  Jar Jar Binks,  Google Inc.,  Boston Red Sox

Theater Review | 'The Supper Club of Lost Causes': That 1940s Feeling at a Poconos Roadhouse

Jim Farmer must have had some bizarre experiences in restaurants or in the Poconos or both over the years. At least that is the impression left by his daffy play “The Supper Club of Lost Causes,” a fractured look at faded glory that is being given a ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Theater for the New City

Movie Review | 'The End of Poverty?': Breaking Down Economic Breakdown

Why Philippe Diaz has titled his new documentary “The End of Poverty?” is unclear, because this guilt trip/history lesson is really about the beginning of poverty: how the economic and social systems evolved that have kept parts of the world wealthy ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry George,  Martin Sheen

Television Review | 'Ultimate Factories': New Cars for the Subway, Old Ones for the Deep

Why is it that in a program about the construction of brand-spanking-new New York City subway cars, the most satisfying moment comes when we see some old New York City subway cars being hurled into the ocean? The latest on the arts, coverage of live ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Geographic Channel

Movie Review | 'The Good Soldier': Dark Side of Heroism, Told in Four Wars

Picture a peacenik who in his private moments enjoys looking at pictures of horribly mutilated bodies. That is the vibe given off by “The Good Soldier,” a film whose benign-sounding title and Veterans Day release give a false impression of what it ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Television Review | 'Return to Duty': From Peaceful Gettysburg to the Battlefield of Iraq

Two surprises are in store for those who tune in to “Return to Duty” on Wednesday night on MTV. Ryan Conklin in a scene from “Return to Duty” on MTV. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much ...

From NEIL GENZLINGER, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MTV

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