Jenny Lawton appears in the following:
Aha Moment: Mary Karr's "Entering the Kingdom"
Friday, May 09, 2014
Ten years ago, Beth Greenspan put a poem in her wallet that she’s carried ever since.
Map: Louie's New York City
Monday, May 05, 2014
From Ben's Pizza to Russ & Daughters, to a subway platform below Grand Central Terminal, help us map out where to find Louie by telling us a location you've seen in the series.
James Lipton Picks Your Best Collective Nouns
Friday, May 02, 2014
Fill in the blank: a school of fish, a murder of crows … a _____ of hipsters? James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio and the authority on "collective nouns," chooses the best ...
Aha Moment: I Am Hamlet
Friday, April 04, 2014
As a teenager, Jeff House watched Christopher Plummer play Hamlet on TV with his big sister, who was enthralled; House was nonplussed. “The language didn't make sense,” he remembers....
American Icons: I Love Lucy
Friday, March 28, 2014
It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy's weekly antics and humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy: from Desperate Housewives to 30 Rock — writers can’t live without Lucy.
Gene Luen Yang’s Chinese Superheroes
Friday, March 21, 2014
Boxers & Saints by the graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang tells the story of China’s Boxer Rebellion in vivid, explosive color. In the year 1900, peasants violently rejected Western bus...
Aha Moment: Madonna’s “Live to Tell”
Friday, March 14, 2014
Holly Welker was already doubting her Mormon faith when she went on her mission to Taiwan. She found herself in a strange city with few friends, suffering from a crisis of faith as ...
From Donald Trump to the Son of God
Friday, March 07, 2014
Mark Burnett pretty much invented reality TV as we know it: Survivor, The Apprentice, The Voice. But his latest hit was the 10-hour miniseries The Bible — out of which he's carved a f...
New Year’s Resolution: Move to the City, Start a Band
Friday, March 07, 2014
What is the creative project you want to tackle in 2014? Gabriel Walker, from Maysville, Kentucky, has played guitar for 40 years. But his music got sidelined by a career in sound de...
Super-Short Movies that Will Give You the Creeps
Friday, February 28, 2014
The Challenge: create a scary movie on the theme of “young genius,” no longer than 30 seconds. The filmmaker Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) will judge the submissions....
Scary Shorts Starring Shorties
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
We challenged you to shoot a 30-second horror film to be judged by Wes Craven, the scariest guy around. The entries are pouring in, including a handful by or for kids that have us terrified. Watch them here.
New Year’s Resolution: Make 'Em Laugh
Friday, February 07, 2014
As a young adult, Whoopi Goldberg inspired Julie Bayley to try stand-up comedy. Julie loved performing late night sets, but found herself limited by “a really horrific habit: I had t...
BJ Novak’s Life After The Office
Friday, February 07, 2014
After college, BJ Novak made the stand-up rounds for four years before landing his dream job on The Office ...
New Year's Resolution: Returning to the Canvas
Friday, January 17, 2014
What’s the creative project you’ve been meaning to get done? When we put out the call in December, we heard from hundreds of people eager to throw their hat in the ring, and commit t...
Curtain Call: Industrial Strength Musicals
Friday, January 10, 2014
In the 1950, 60s, and 70s, a subgenre of musical theater entertained thousands. It had showstoppers composed by some of the brightest talent in the business. But instead of selling ...
Ben Stiller’s Walter Mitty Daydream
Friday, January 10, 2014
There are few characters in literature whose names have become a kind of shorthand. If someone is a fantasist with grandiose daydreams, you might call them a Walter Mitty, based on ...
Kerry Washington Fixes Everything
Friday, January 03, 2014
The television show Scandal started off as a fairly realistic procedural/soap opera. It stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, a D.C. lawyer-media-consultant -super fixer who makes ...
Ben Stiller Can Shred (sort of)
Friday, December 20, 2013
“I grew up in New York and skateboarded as a kid,” he says. Stiller does his own skateboarding in his new film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Julie Taymor's Midsummer Night's Dream
Friday, December 20, 2013
In 2002, Julie Taymor was the new Queen of Broadway: a MacArthur genius and the creator of The Lion King, which became the most lucrative Broadway musical of all time. But soon aft...
The NSA’s New World (of Warcraft)
Friday, December 13, 2013
A new front in the War on Terror opened secretly in Azeroth. Haven’t heard of it? It’s familiar to the millions of people who play the videogame World of Warcraft. An NSA documen...
