Here are some other acquaintances of mine renewed in the course of a pandemic year: a haunted mask that melds with its wearer’s skin; a can of something called monster blood; a ventriloquist’s dummy, come to life. I’ve been meeting them in
“Acting drunk convincingly is about the hardest thing you can do,” says D.W. Brown, 60, an acting coach based in Santa Monica, Calif., who has worked with both film and stage actors. There are famous film scenes for which actors are said
“Acting drunk convincingly is about the hardest thing you can do,” says D.W. Brown, 60, an acting coach based in Santa Monica, Calif., who has worked with both film and stage actors. There are famous film scenes for which actors are said
As a kid growing up in a gray suburb of London, I loved to go looking for the perfect park bench. We had only five in our local park, and one was broken. Some Sunday mornings, my dad could be persuaded to
I lead a department within a medium-size company, where we’ve had a lot of discussions about making our hiring practices more inclusive. Although we do well on the gender front, we are about 85 percent white. Our motives for pursuing more diversity
For the comedian Jaqueline Novak, the embarrassing and uncomfortable are a gateway to the profound.
Questlove in 1975 at a lounge in Valley Forge, Pa.Credit…Courtesy of Questlove By the time he started elementary school, Thompson had spent more time on the road with adults than in Philadelphia with kids his own age. When his first-grade class had
I’ve loved this poem for a long time. And all I have to add is that my father’s name is Reginald. And my name is Reginald. And for a long time I’ve had a hard time loving men named Reginald. But Shepherd’s
Avery writes: My wife and I have a walk-in closet with a closing door. I say this is a “room.” My wife disagrees. She says it’s a room only if you would put furniture in it. Who is right? There are only
Something new was happening: Unlike Nishino’s usual process, in which he arrays his images within the recognizable outline of a city’s map, these waves weren’t replicating the shape of actual waves he’d seen. “It was more abstract,” he told me, through his
Years later, he created a cheesecake and gave it that name, and then a large collection of pastries based on strawberry, rhubarb and passion fruit that he christened Céleste. I recently tried to recall when this all happened and asked Pierre, who