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Items by By CHARLES McGRATH
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An Appraisal | Michael Crichton: Builder of Windup Realms That Thrillingly Run Amok
Posted: November 7th, 2008, 7:23pm EST by By CHARLES McGRATH
The author, who died on Tuesday, turned out novels that were intricately engineered entertainment systems.
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Publisher Who Fought Puritanism, and Won
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 12:06am EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
The maverick publisher of Grove Press, Barney Rosset, is the subject of the documentary “Obscene.”
NYT > Asia Pacific
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A Chinese Hinterland, Fertile With Field Hockey
Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 8:24am EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
For a thousand years, the Daur people of Inner Mongolia have been playing a game called beikou, a close sibling of field hockey.
NYT > Movie Reviews
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Film: To Be, or to Be Broad, in Service of ‘Hamlet 2’
Posted: August 16th, 2008, 10:33pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
Despite appearances in many movies, Steve Coogan, the star of the indie comedy “Hamlet 2,” is scarcely known in the United States.
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Film: Finding the Darkness Within the Perky
Posted: July 13th, 2008, 2:33am EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
Although Emily Mortimer has often played sweet, vulnerable roles, she takes on a more mysterious part in “Transsiberian.”
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Hazy Halcyon Days of Pot and Puberty
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:53pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
With “The Wackness,” Jonathan Levine evokes high school in Manhattan in the early 1990s.
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An Appraisal: A Master of Words, Including Some You Can’t Use in a Headline
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 4:03pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
George Carlin, who died on Sunday at 71, had a gift for saying — and thinking — things that other people wouldn’t or couldn’t.
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Film: That License to Kill Is Unexpired
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 2:34pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
Ian Fleming, had he lived, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday. James Bond, his greatest invention, is ageless and immortal.
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Film: That License to Kill Is Unexpired
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 1:34pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
Ian Fleming, had he lived, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday. James Bond, his greatest invention, is ageless and immortal.
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At World’s End, Honing a Father-Son Dynamic
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 12:53am EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
For the crew of the movie version of “The Road,” set to open in November, filming involved an upending of the usual rules of making a movie on location.