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Great Lives

Marina Cicogna The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

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A Hole New World

The New Pay to Play Private golf clubs have always been symbols of wealth and exclusivity, but today there are more new ones than ever before, and they’re only getting more difficult to join

Get in Line!

It’s Only a Grocery Store And yet Erewhon has become the epicenter of Hollywood. See you at the salad bar?


Modern Times

Spite the Power When Larry David invented “the spite store,” he meant it as a joke. But today the concept seems to animate most of American politics

A Look Back

Just Glow with It Only partly French and certainly not a sunscreen, Bain de Soleil nevertheless brought a whiff of St. Tropez to the masses

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Internal Affairs

What’s Up, Doc? If up to 10 percent of women have polycystic-ovary syndrome, why is it taking patients years to get diagnosed?

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Bohemian Groove

From Tree to Tree The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family

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Inside Story

Unusual Suspects The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Casablanca, which hit theaters 80 years ago

Inside Story

The Man Behind the Monster The little-known story of the Harvard professor whose sadistic experiments may have helped transform Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber


Stage and Screen

Elaine May Speaks! A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s

Close-up

Mona Pirnot The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan

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Music and Lyrics

Stephen Sondheim’s Phantom Menace As a new Sondheim revue opens on Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on their friendship—and on Sondheim’s rivalry with Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Troubled Skies

Buckle Up! It wasn’t all that long ago that British Airways was known as “the world’s favorite airline.” Today, some Brits would rather take EasyJet

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Art-World Squabbles

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Un-Maintenance Steve McQueen’s granddaughter is suing for ownership of a $68 million Jackson Pollock painting, which the actor allegedly swapped for a motorcycle that never appeared

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Film Classics

A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski

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Eight Questions

Weathering the Storm The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump and Elon Musk are aggressively seeking out the spotlight again. If only Xi Jinping would disappear them too

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Bezos and Zuck are sucking up, Prince Andrew is letting Britain down, and it’s all Greek to Kimberly Guilfoyle


Scandale!

The Dark Side of Alain Delon He played charming but icy characters on-screen. The available evidence suggests that he was one in real life

The Restaurant Next Door

En Everlasting As New York says good-bye to En Japanese Brasserie, its owner looks back on 20 years spent serving—and partying late into the night with—everyone from Yoko Ono to Q-Tip, Lou Reed, and Martha Stewart

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