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Closing the Captions

The soundbar so effective that you can shut off subtitles once and for all! A pendulum clock for the Digital Age! Headphones that work underwater! And more …

The Dark Side of Lolita

Sue Lyon was 14 when she starred in the film. The producer slept with her anyway

The Wreck of the Bayesian

To celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal, billionaire Mike Lynch set sail on his “unsinkable” 184-foot yacht. The Fates weren’t with him

“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone”

Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”

AARP-Breaker

Al Pacino and Mick Jagger are notches on the bedpost of the glamorous, 30-year-old film producer Noor Alfallah

Follow the Ruby Red Slippers!

The crazy tale of a career criminal’s theft of the shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz—and the madcap, decades-long fight to get them back

Devil’s Bargain

A 2004 visit with the future Nobel laureate Alice Munro left me with a slightly uneasy feeling. Now I know why

True Confessions?

Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?

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