The List
Drive, He Said
Self-Styled Siren rises to the defense of the art of melodrama, which has gotten a bum rap from shrunken-lobe'd literalists and would-be smarties. The ignorance, flippancy, faddishness, favoritism, and absence of social-historical dimension in so much of film criticism today...
Sun Beams
Exclusively online at New York Sun is Joel Lobenthal's ribboned wrapup of the Kirov's season ender at City Center, where the company went out with a triumphant whinny with its Balanchine program: In the final ?Ballet Imperial,? Alina Somova replaced...
The Great Oz Has Spoken
Shorter New York Times editorial: Hillary Clinton's ruthless insistence on winning big-state primaries with traditional Democratic voters only hastens and strengthens the case that she drop out of the race and let Barack Obama finish his waffle. P.S. Big Tent...