How Public Enemies Kills Its Gangsters
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
In his new film, Michael Mann manages to take 1930s gangster culture-rendered so vividly and compellingly by author Bryan Burrough-and render it flat as a pancake. By Stanley Crouch
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Knives Out for Michael Mann
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Johnny Depp's new gangster movie Public Enemies may be stylish, but if it doesn't win at the box office, Hollywood will be gunning for its director, Michael Mann.
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Harvey Weinstein is co-chairman of The Weinstein Company with his brother Bob. He is co-creator and executive producer of Project Runway. Harvey and Bob founded Miramax Films in 1979 and under the Weinsteins, Miramax received 249 Academy Award nominations and won 60 Academy Awards.
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You haven't heard of them...yet. But The Daily Beast predicts this promising crop of young actors will hit the big time this year. From Lenny Kravitz' daughter to Michael Cera's girlfriend, meet the class of 2009.
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